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Post by horse656 on Jun 22, 2010 8:55:25 GMT -5
i think she's had around 11 babies, i haven't handled them yet. should i give her a week, until her babies now are a week old? or wait until the litter is weaned? and then give her a week and then put a male in?
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Post by katt on Jul 10, 2010 16:34:59 GMT -5
Albino is recessive. They can carry other colors but any color they do carry will not show because the albino cancels it out. That is how I learned about siamese and himilayan genetics in mice. Lets say you have a black mouse and an agouti (brown) mouse. Both of them carry one copy of the recessive albino gene. Each baby they produce has a 25% chance of being albino. If they do produce an albino, that albino will carry one agouti gene and one black gene. So you have the possibility of producing agouti, blacks, and albinos. If you breed an albino to an albino, you will always get albinos. Are they different genes that are linked then? Because typically in animals albino x color= color, albino x albino=albino, and color x color=color. (I am talking genes not phenotype lol). You have to have 2 recessive genes for the recessive trait to show. Or you have to have like co-dominant co-recessive genes. Typically albinism is completely recessive so you would need 2 recessive albino genes to get an albino. Does it not work this way in mice? Here is a thing with a few genes: www.thefunmouse.com/varieties/genetics/genes.cfm
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Post by katt on Jul 10, 2010 18:29:33 GMT -5
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Post by horse656 on Jul 11, 2010 15:53:12 GMT -5
i have no idea but i did breed an albino mouse to a coloured broken one, and i got 6 albinos and 4 chinchilla babies.
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Post by katt on Jul 11, 2010 16:59:02 GMT -5
i have no idea but i did breed an albino mouse to a coloured broken one, and i got 6 albinos and 4 chinchilla babies. You bred 2 mice and got Chinchillas?!?!?!?! I think you could win a Nobel Prize in genetics for something like that! Were they miniature sized chinchillas? Or normal?
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Post by horse656 on Jul 11, 2010 20:25:13 GMT -5
lol. i meant like the chinchilla markings
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Post by horse656 on Jul 23, 2010 8:47:55 GMT -5
its been a disaster for breeding mice. some things happened, so I'm stopping for now. frozen are just easier
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