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"The ground colour should be as black as possible. The undercolour to be rich blue-black. Eye black. The silvering should be even throughout, carried well onto the feet."

Breeding information below the pictures.

	SH Silver Grey doe Talttahampaan Hopealantti b: Marko Majuri, o: Helena Linnanvirta pic: Arttu Väisälä
	SH Silver Grey doe VRP-99 Noddyn Grey Owl b. & o: Satu Karhumaa pic: Arttu Väisälä
	Typical silver grey mouse in the middle of molting and developing the ticking, thus the uneven colouring. However, the sprinkling of silver ticking shows well. The body colour is rather good, although it could be blacker. The ears, feet and tail have good pigmentation SH Silver Grey buck Talttahampaan Onni b. & o: Marko Majuri pic: Arttu Väisälä

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

Quick Look

Silvering in Silver Grey is, like in the other two silvered varieties, sprinkling of silvering distributed throughout the coat. Earlier there were three different shades of Silver Greys recognized, but nowadays only one is accepted in shows.

To start breeding Silver Grey, one must have a Silvered mouse to begin with. This is then mated to self Black, proceeding with mating the resulting mice together. In the nest Silver Grey mice appear selfs, but by four to five weeks the silvering begins to show and increases with age. Face, rump and feet are the last areas to silver. A common fault with Silver Grey mice are dark extremities, that is the nose, tail root and feet lack silvering. As an outcross self black mice can be used. Silvering is recessive to selfs, so in the first generation only Blacks will be born. These should then be mated back to a silvered mouse.

Note, that the standard requires "as black as possible" ground colour. The variety is called "Silver Grey", not "Silver Black" for a purpose - with a good ticking, the colour does not come out as deep a black as it would on a self Black.