Stephen Maynard

On breeding and showing Broken Marked

by [log in to see names] | Aug 7, 2025 | Varieties | 1 comment

I was surprised when Stephan asked me to write about Brokens. Apparently, he saw several of my mice at the Summer Cup Show and thought they looked good. Most fanciers who show will know that my primary variety is dutch in several colours. I have done well with them...

Keeping Mice—45 years on

by [log in to see names] | Apr 24, 2025 | Showing and Judging | 0 comments

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

by [log in to see names] | Oct 2, 2022 | Showing and Judging | 0 comments

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

by [log in to see names] | Jul 5, 2022 | Varieties | 0 comments

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...

On breeding and showing Broken Marked

Keeping Mice—45 years on

Rejoining the NMC

The Challenge of Dutch

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