Keeping Mice—45 years on

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The article in the NMC News, about myself, from the early seventies, sparked quite a few memories. After acquiring my first Dutch mice in 1969, I made rapid progress in breeding some decent show mice, these did a lot of winning.  In those days it was possible to make...

Rejoining the NMC

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I rejoined the mouse fancy in November 2019, exactly 50 years after I first joined as a teenager, in 1969. Back then there were many more shows, which generally speaking were very well supported. I see from my 1970Year Book, the entry for an ‘average’ show was between...

The Challenge of Dutch

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The Challenge of Dutch
As I have mentioned before, producing a well marked Dutch mouse is a real challenge. The more I breed Dutch, and also from what I know and have experienced with other varieties of fancy mice, the more I realise they are the hardest and most challenging of all. Other...