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Post by coastalrodents on Jul 31, 2008 18:12:42 GMT 10
last night Anita had her first litter to Cookie both are manx and im proud to say they are all manx babies there is 11 babies and all look healthy pic will be posted ASAP when they are a bit bigger YAY
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Post by Tammy- REN on Jul 31, 2008 18:51:02 GMT 10
hey costal rodents congrats on the bubs, i cant wait to see pics of them, what colours are you expecting?
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Post by coastalrodents on Jul 31, 2008 20:09:02 GMT 10
well mum is a fawn with white head spot ? (she has black eyes) and dad is a white i dont know much about the mum but dad has black, agouti, white, siamese and gray (red eye) in his line and i know mum has fawn and brindle fawn coz her 2 other sisters are brindle fawn
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Post by coastalrodents on Jul 31, 2008 22:56:30 GMT 10
Here's some pics of the parents Cookie (Dad): Anita (Mum):
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Post by mushaka on Jul 31, 2008 23:25:10 GMT 10
wow,they look like they will be beautiful bubs with such great lookin parents
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Post by coastalrodents on Jul 31, 2008 23:49:55 GMT 10
You know what they say.. Ugly parents = Good lookin kids.. Good lookin parents = Ugly kids. Bubba pic!
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Post by Tammy- REN on Aug 1, 2008 7:33:01 GMT 10
AWW.. they are just gorgeous, i like anita, she has a preatty face on her.
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Post by mushaka on Aug 1, 2008 9:57:57 GMT 10
awww look at the milk bellies!!!!!!!!
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Post by coastalrodents on Aug 4, 2008 0:31:50 GMT 10
We lost two =(
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Post by rockette on Aug 4, 2008 12:22:43 GMT 10
You should never breed manx to manx. Manx is a deformity, and breeding deformity to deformity just makes the deformity worse.
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Post by mushaka on Aug 4, 2008 23:48:54 GMT 10
i dnt breed mice,had no idea about that!!! Aww so way happens?
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Post by bnrats on Aug 5, 2008 9:18:52 GMT 10
Manx mice are a result of the spine being incomplete (thus no tail). If you breed manx to manx the babies are at greater odds of having their spines shortened even further possibly even stopping half way up their back. Sometimes the odd baby will be born in a litter with such a short spine that the back legs are not even mobile as the pelvis has no spine to connect to. Breeding manx to tailed still gives you a chance to breed a manx baby with a healthy amount of spine where as breeding manx to manx is just to some people too big a chance of breeding bubs who will be too badly deformed
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Post by rockette on Aug 5, 2008 9:33:09 GMT 10
Before I knew anything about mice(yes, I started breeding without researching, I regret that now), I bred manx to manx. Half the litter had very short spines, their back legs didn't work very well and they were all over the place. A few babies were perfect manx, and others had half tails in a zigzag shape.
I only breed manx to carrier o carrier to carrier now, I do still get the odd baby with a shorter spine, but nothing like what I got when I bred manx to manx. I choose the best manx to breed with- if you gently press on their back above their bum, you'll either fell the spine, or a soft spot. If it's soft, the spine is too short and they shouldn't be bred from.
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Post by mushaka on Aug 5, 2008 10:16:04 GMT 10
Wow thanks for that guys.. sounds scary. Did you have to PTS the affected mice or did they pass away due to the abnormalities?
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Post by coastalrodents on Aug 5, 2008 21:53:34 GMT 10
We won't breed manx to manx again. Thanks for letting us know. We did already know that it's not good to breed from a manx female that doesn't have a stump, so we made sure Anita had one before we put them together.
Will take more pics soon! They all are really fat and are starting to show some colour. We noticed that two of them have curly whiskers... Is it even possible to get rex from two normal coat parents??
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