Varieties

Tans

V - Silver Grey Tan (s-g/t)

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"Eyes black. The ground colour should be as black as possible. The undercolour to be rich blue-black. Eye black. The silvering should be even throughout. The tan belly shall be a rich golden orange hue, as rich as possible and there should be a clear line of demarcation between top colour and tan running in a straight line along flanks, chest and jaws. There should be no brindling or guard hairs. Colour of feet should be inside tan, the remainder of foot the same as top colour. Wholly tan feet considered a greater fault than feet all same colour as top."

Breeding information below the pictures.

	Sh silver grey tan buck. b. & ow. Terhi Ojala pic: Arttu Väisälä (Click the pic for a larger image)
	Sh silver grey tan buck. b.. & ow Terhi Ojala pic: Arttu Väisälä Above mouse with a better view of the belly. (Click the pic for a larger image)
	Lk silver grey tan buck b.., ow & pic: Terhi Ojala s-g/t with more even ticking. (Click the pic for a larger image)
	Lk silver grey tan Calling the Midsummer Night b.., ow & pic: Terhi Ojala Sh si-g/t young - already well ticked! (Click the pic for a larger image)
	Sh silver grey tans b.., ow & pic: Terhi Ojala Lighter and darker. Also note the differences in evenness of ticking.
	Rapunzel's Two Of Us, lk s-g/t ut \ lk pe/t ut naaras. An example of a mouse without dilution, but who does have white undercolour since young. b., om, & pic: Anniina Tuura. (Click the pic for a larger image)

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Quick Look

Silver grey tans are quite rare. It is quite difficult to breed silver grey mice even without the added difficulty of tan.

Silver grey tan may be produced by mating silver grey to black tan and continuing with careful selective breeding. Pearl tans are more complicated and could maybe be produced by mating silver grey tans with the lightest top to normal pearls.