Progress in Satins

by [log in to see names] | Apr 24, 2025 | NMC History | 0 comments

Progress in Satins
Progress in Satins by Frank Hawley First printed in August 1984 The introduction of the Satin mouse was solely due to the efforts of our former President, Tony Cooke, who noticed the mutation in laboratory stock and had the foresight to appreciate its potential. Since...

From the Archives

by [log in to see names] | Apr 24, 2025 | NMC History | 0 comments

From the Archives
Are your mice telepathic? by Roger Hutchings First printed in January 1983 Considering that many thousands of mice bred by fanciers, and considering that wild mice will instinctively bite to escape from being handled, the Fancy encounters remarkably few biters. Mice...

Who’s who in the mouse fancy

by [log in to see names] | Apr 24, 2025 | NMC History | 0 comments

Who’s who in the mouse fancy
Bernard Longbottom Bernard Longbottom was born on June 10, 1913. In the early thirties he and his brother, Edward, kept rabbits, cavies and budgerigars on a fairly large scale. It was not until 1953 that Bernard joined the mouse Fancy in his own right. Starting up...

Facts & Figures

by [log in to see names] | Feb 9, 2025 | NMC History | 0 comments

Facts & Figures
I was not able to go to Bradford Championship Show this year, but my first attendance was in 1983. The show was at Doncaster Racecourse, as now, but before the big refurbishment and reorganisation took place. It was a very different place back then. The cafeteria was...

A Trophy with a Mystery

by [log in to see names] | Feb 9, 2025 | Trophies | 0 comments

A Trophy with a Mystery
As we all know, [log in to see names] has rats as well as mice, and is equally successful with them. On 15 December she won Best in Show at the NFRS Annual Cup show at Meldreth with a Hooded., beating a very good entry of 84 varieties, 8 Provisional and 77 pets....

From the Archives

by [log in to see names] | Oct 9, 2024 | Varieties | 0 comments

The following piece comes from Fur and Feather, 14 May 1958. EdThe Latest FashionIs it responsible for many Best in Show awards?A thing which has intrigued me ever since I joined the Fancy is the way a certain variety has a run of taking best in show and other premier...

From the Archives

by [log in to see names] | Jul 7, 2024 | Varieties | 0 comments

I spoke to [log in to see names] recently—he can’t get to shows now, so it was lovely to catch up with him. He misses his mice! [log in to see names] was a regular contributor to NMC News, particularly with items from the archives. Here is one he provided 20 years...

Tan Varieties and Their Problems

by [log in to see names] | Jun 9, 2024 | Varieties | 0 comments

(Original article by R Hutchings) The Tan varieties have a remarkable capacity for improving their strength of tanning in successive generations, even without selection. This has often been commented upon by fanciers who have observed the effects of outcrossing, but...

Sheffield

by [log in to see names] | Feb 2, 2024 | Show Reports | 0 comments

Judge: Simon Grimwood Selfs, Tans, Satins, Marked, AOVsGeneral CommentsThank you to Stephan for giving me the opportunity to take on my first judging engagement, it was a real baptism of fire! Nothing like being thrown in at the deep end, a long and challenging day...

The Puzzling Pearl

by [log in to see names] | Nov 6, 2023 | Varieties | 0 comments

First published in Mouse Fancy Review, April 1984. The Puzzling Pearl The Pearl is a lovely, delicate colour, but I have found it a most reluctant breeder, and while the bucks seem normally fertile the does are frequently barren, or have litters that often fail to...

Sheffield (NMC Annual)

by [log in to see names] | Oct 8, 2023 | Show Reports | 0 comments

Judge: [log in to see names] Marked, AOVsGeneral CommentsAnother Annual! Great to judge at this show, in Sheffield’s excellent light, alongside my friend [log in to see names]. We had no disagreements in the Challenges; congratulations to [log in to see names] on BIS...

From The Archives

by [log in to see names] | Jul 3, 2023 | Showing and Judging | 0 comments

In 1934 there was a long-drawn-out debate in Fur and Feather about show cages. A number of prominent fanciers weighed in on the argument.The first article in this year was from J Wilton Steer, titled “Mice Show Cages”. This question of show cages keeps cropping up....

Pest Control

by [log in to see names] | Mar 1, 2023 | Husbandry | 0 comments

Pest Control
All fanciers have unwanted trials of various kinds, and if you keep mice for long enough you are likely to encounter every known issue at some point.This year’s problem for Smith & Hollis has been a wild rat, or more than one rat, and I know we are not the only...