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Annmarie172

annmarie172@yahoo.co.uk


Jan 5, 06 - 4:58 PM 		Colours

I know the Uk only regonises three colours in collies. I know also it is not recommended to breed sable to blue . Having studied colour charts the only reason I can think is because you could produce a sable merle pup not recognised in Uk.
Wondered if there is another reason not to do this as it appears to be a way to breed a blue from a sable.
If the sable is Tri bred would this not just give rich tan markings to a blue?
Krisztina



Jan 6th, 2006 - 7:20 PM 		Re: Colours

Dear Annmarie,

the sable merle is quiet nice colour, I know one personaly here in Hungary. Of course that collie b.itch did not get the pedigree, she is a pet. She has the same colour on body as any sable collie, just her head looks like a red merle australian shepherd- of course only colour, not shape

Maybe I have an idea about why not making sable to merle mating: it is possible that there would be such sable merle collies, who look like normal sable collies. And their offspring can be the same "invisible" merles... and so. After a while, when nobody remembers, that there were merles in a sable line, or just they do not think so, and they choose both of the parents from such line, and they wait for the hoped litter and oops, there are four white merle puppies, and only some other with normal colour. It is not necessary what I write here, but possible.

On the other hand just imagine: if there is a tri factored sable merle collie b.itch, she could give birth in one litter to all possible colour mated by a tri factored sable dog there could be dominant sable, dominant sable merle, tri factored sable, tri factored sable merle, tricolor, blue merle. Sounds interesting, not?
Annmarie172



Jan 7th, 2006 - 10:43 AM 		Re: Colours

Can see the point re unconciously mating two merle factors together and that being a problem but if the merle pups went as pets that would not be such a problem.
As you say it would make for an interesting litter if done with thought and knowledge of pedigrees.

I plan to take my tri factored sable ***** to a tri dog and hope to keep a tri ***** from which I can later breed blues.

Thanks for replying

AM


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