The board of the asc asked the ascf to take on the task of researching the hereditary aspects and related issues of merle cocker spaniels. A cocker with the merle color pattern is not a pure bred cocker spaniel.

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1 2 face a cocker spaniel with or without eye rims with a lack of color around the eye.

Blue roan blue merle english cocker spaniel colors. Golden black red liver liver and tan and black and tan are considered solid colors. Because these 2 dogs came from the same mold so to say all of the colors patterns and markings were shared such as black brown buff parti mahogany sable and roan along with tan points. Permission to copy is granted.

It s also free to list your available puppies and litters on our site. Dec 9 2014 explore blue fawn s board blue merle cocker spaniel on pinterest. Solid is always dominant over parti color.

English cocker spaniels are not bred to be merle or harlequin in color. Space for a choc roan mario majestic show of anamericha. Find blue and merle cocker spaniel puppiess from a breeder near you.

Genetics of colors in the english cocker spaniel. Blue roan and tan. Loris azzaro pajaz of anamericha color dream s blue roan breeder esteelle stamm goes back to my roans.

Cvj s n aj s can t buy me love shazam is a blue roan and tan american cocker spaniel nickname sam i am below are his parents. The variety of colors in this litter is due to the fact that the mother is a blue merle with tan points and the father our now retired stud dog jake is a brown and white parti. Solid can carry for parti color but parti color cannot carry for solid.

Roan american cocker spaniels showcasing blue roan blue roan and tan and red roan none of these pictured below are for sale. Blue is five years old merle cocker spaniel he is continental kc registered. Turtle blue merle and tan solid.

The term merle cocker is actually an oxymoron. You do not have permission to use any photos for any reason this is shazam ch. Statistically when breeding a merle to a non merle you can expect 50 merles and 50 non merles.

The specific hypothesis presented to the ascf was that the merle color was not a cocker spaniel color but was instead introduced into the gene pool by a specific breeding that occurred in the 1980s. A short course on coat color in spaniels these comments are courtesy of karen fremuth on the inheritance of color. No sporting breed including the cocker spaniel and the english cocker spaniel has ever been merle.

Roan is dominant over open marks. Because many english cocker breeders. Blue roan is the most popular color choice.

The truth about merle cocker spaniels. Blue merle solid age 5 weeks. So to sum up english cocker spaniel colors vary greatly with 23 possible shades and three different types of.

Separated and the american cocker was called the cocker spaniel and the english was called the english cocker. See more ideas about cocker spaniel spaniel blue merle.

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