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The Pearl Mouse

by Stephan Mönninghoff | Featured Articles, Varieties | 0 comments

Pearls are considered a difficult variety and, despite their striking beauty, are not as popular as other AOVs, only ranking in 12th position this year (a statistical outlier because of a BIS won by myself). Last season, they never even appeared in the Variety...

The Puzzling Pearl

by Ruth Hollis | Featured Articles | 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...

The Quest for Extreme Black

by Stephan Mönninghoff | Featured Articles | 0 comments

Our blacks of today are very black. Sure, we’re fighting against every non-black hair, and those who breed blacks know it is a fight you cannot win. What we see on the show bench are those specimens that exhibit the least amount of non-black hairs and, if you show at...

The Road to Success

by Andrew Leach | Featured Articles, Showing and Judging | 0 comments

In 2019 I decided to bring to an end my career of gamekeeping and working for the landed gentry. I progressed and set up my own business to become self employed in garden maintenance and pest control. My lovely, patient and very sup- portive partner Jane and I moved...

From The Archives

by Ruth Hollis | Featured Articles, 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....

A Look Back to 1981

by Steven Goss | Featured Articles, Showing and Judging | 0 comments

After my mother’s death last year, I found an old copy of NMC News among her papers. It is an early edition (number 9) and dates from November 1981. The mouse fancy was originally served by Fur & Feather magazine, but when it stopped including mice, we needed to...

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