Fancy mice genetics

[Cranwelli]

What would the possible outcomes be if you breed a male 'black' coated mouse with a 'champagne' female?

[Ssthisto]

The most likely outcome is black, heterozygous for the recessive chocolate and pink-eyed dilution traits.

Anything else proves that the black mouse was carrying one or both traits - or that the champagne and the black were both carrying something else.

In the second generation of breeding black het choc/pink eyed dilute to the same, you could get:

Black mice
Dove mice (pink-eyed black, they're soft grey)
Chocolate mice (chocolate, they're a rich dark chocolate colour if they're good ones, milk-chocolate if not)
Champagne mice (pink eyed chocolates)

[Cranwelli]

That's brilliant.