A^y/* c^ch/c^ch D/* P/* (b.e.cream)
A^y/* c^ch/c^ch D/* p/p (p.e.cream)

"The colour should be rich cream, like pastel yellow, without grayness or sootiness. Eyes black or pink."

Breeding information below the pictures.

	SHA cream buck Rapunzel's ? b., o. & pic: Anniina Tuura This mouse's genotype is Ay/a B/* cch/cch D/* p/p, it is a chinchillated Fawn. P.e.Cream is rare due to the lingage of C and P loci.
	SH cream Evening Star's Micrometer b: Carita Tiikkainen, pic: Anniina Tuura

Note: This article is old and waiting to be rewritten.

Quick Look

The variety shown these days as Cream in unstandardized class is the "second phase Cream" of British mouse fancy history. First of them is our Straw (which was shown here as well under Cream for a while) and the third and last NMC's current Cream, our Bone. The variety is pretty, but tricky.

As lighter and lighter Creams (speaking of ealier 1900's British fancy) became more and more sought after and diluted Reds and Fawns not fitting the bill too well, shown Creams shifted using then new chinchilla dilution in 1930's. Thus Cream was now a chinchillated Red or Fawn. At this point, Pink Eyed Creams became rarer, due to the linkage of P and C loci.

A^y/* c^ch/c^ch gives a nice, light Cream. The shade depends on other dilutes present and modifiers. Cordovan b^c doesn't not have an effect on the colour in other than clearing sootiness, brown dilution b is the same in this - although the latter tends to lighten eyes to ruby. Blue dilution d lightens the colour, due to d/d's effect on red pigment. The other A-locus gene present doesn't matter, as it doesn't show - not even a^t. One exception might be a mouse with modifiers for poor tan, which makes for lighter belly even on an undiluted Red.