Tricolors
Black siamese based - aa B* chch D* P* ss Spl/*
Blue siamese based - aa B* chch dd P* ss Spl/*
Blue himalayan based - aa B* chc dd PP Spl/*
Blue burmese based - aa B* cch ch dd P* ss Spl/*
Black himalayan based - aa B* chc D* P* ss Spl/*
Etc. Etc. Etc.
The base
Tricolor can be achieved in many ways, they can be bred with black, blue, red, burmese and chocolate and I am probably forgetting something at this point. Tricolor is my oldest line, I am breeding tricolor from 2010 till now, it is a curious and tricky color.
A good tricolor should have three colors, off course, but all three should be as clean as possible. As tricolor is basicly a broken splashed mouse, the splashed will appear on a tricolor mouse, A good tricolor should have as less splashed as possible. The place were the most splashed comes trough is on his butt, getting that back end as good as possible has been a strugle from day one, so some splashed on the back end is not a disaster, but kinda normal.
But the rest of the body should be devided in the three collors that in the standard of "normal" tricolor are white, black and beige. In an ideal situation these three colors would be evenly devided over his left and right side and front and back and even the head, but I have never had or even seen one that perfect.
The goal
As there is almost allways color on the back end of a tricolor, my idea is to breed the colors to one color, so instead of having splashed, get the back end black or beige. I also try to improve the black an beige, good clean marking, dark an deep black spots and light clean beige spots are a feast to my eyes.
Another goal is to improve their type, somehow the type of marked mice is very hard to improve, so this is taking a lit of time. But I do see improvement the last years and especially when I take a look on old pictures and compare them to my current stock I devinately see improvement in size and type. But again this is a slow progress that will take even more years to get to a good sized show mouse like some you see in the shows these days.
My final goal is health, my mice are healthy and can take some stress, I like to keep it that way! Unfortunately, many times when I buy some new blood for my lines I end up with nothing as they die in 2-3 weeks after their move over here. The problem could be stress or bacterial infections, all breeders have their own bacterial environment at home, when you take home a mouse, they could react harsh on the bacteria you have at home, as their body doesn't know these bacteria.
I buy mice from different homes each years, but I am very cautious with breeding new animals in my lines, because you never know what these new animals carry genetically. So having healthy mice and keeping them that way is also a big deal, but always my number one priority, you can't built a line on unhealthy mice.