Steven’s Top Ten Mouse-Keeping Rules

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I realise there are many fanciers better placed than me to offer guidance but, for what it’s worth, here are my ten rules for achieving some success as an exhibitor of fancy mice. There are, of course, successful fanciers who don’t follow all of these rules, so make...

Problems of our own making: Part 1

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There is no doubt the mouse fancy now is very different from the way it was when I joined in 1982. I’ve been giving some thought recently to the issues we seem to have at the moment, chiefly the matters of 1) ailments and 2) breeding show varieties, which will be the...

More on Shavings

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I was interested in what Ruth wrote about shavings in the last NMC News. I had written a similar article for the last National English Rabbit Club’s ’Spotlight’ magazine. For several years I have used Snowflake Standard shavings. The size of the bales had been...

Pest Control

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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...