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My Twiggy is 6 weeks pregnant. If she is a solid blue (from a blue/black litter) and the Sire is a solid fawn(that has fathered blue pups before) what colours does everyone think the pups will be?

 

[moonlake]

My Twiggy is 6 weeks pregnant. If she is a solid blue (from a blue/black litter) and the Sire is a solid fawn(that has fathered blue pups before) what colours does everyone think the pups will be?

They could be black, blue, brindle or fawn - but not both. If there are brindles, it means she cannot produce fawn. Most likely are blue or fawn. Don't be in too much of a hurry to register them because puppies change colour dramatically as they get older - best leave it until they are at least 6 weeks. Nine times out of ten, "blue masked fawn" has lost the blue mask by the time the owner collects the puppy so I never put that on a registration. Obviously, all colours can come with varying degrees of white which is not a colour but an absence of colour. If there are particolours (equal white and a colour) please put on the registration which colour it is. Good luck with the litter.

Gay

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[teachtrinity]

My Twiggy is 6 weeks pregnant. If she is a solid blue (from a blue/black litter) and the Sire is a solid fawn(that has fathered blue pups before) what colours does everyone think the pups will be?

They could be black, blue, brindle or fawn - but not both. If there are brindles, it means she cannot produce fawn. Most likely are blue or fawn. Don't be in too much of a hurry to register them because puppies change colour dramatically as they get older - best leave it until they are at least 6 weeks. Nine times out of ten, "blue masked fawn" has lost the blue mask by the time the owner collects the puppy so I never put that on a registration. Obviously, all colours can come with varying degrees of white which is not a colour but an absence of colour. If there are particolours (equal white and a colour) please put on the registration which colour it is. Good luck with the litter.

Gay

www.moonlake.co.uk

sorry being really thick here but are you saying there cant be brindles and fawns in the same litter?

 

[Esty]

My two's parents were dam=solid fawn and sire=black with white chest/socks. In their litter were black and white partis, blue white partis and brindle white partis (different types of brindle) but no fawns and no solid colours from what I can remember - my Ros is probably the nearest to a solid from that litter and he has white chest, white collar, blaze, underneath and legs! Don't know if this particularly helps you but I do find the colour genetics fascinating!

 

[moonlake]

My Twiggy is 6 weeks pregnant. If she is a solid blue (from a blue/black litter) and the Sire is a solid fawn(that has fathered blue pups before) what colours does everyone think the pups will be?

They could be black, blue, brindle or fawn - but not both. If there are brindles, it means she cannot produce fawn. Most likely are blue or fawn. Don't be in too much of a hurry to register them because puppies change colour dramatically as they get older - best leave it until they are at least 6 weeks. Nine times out of ten, "blue masked fawn" has lost the blue mask by the time the owner collects the puppy so I never put that on a registration. Obviously, all colours can come with varying degrees of white which is not a colour but an absence of colour. If there are particolours (equal white and a colour) please put on the registration which colour it is. Good luck with the litter.

Gay

www.moonlake.co.uk

sorry being really thick here but are you saying there cant be brindles and fawns in the same litter?

Not from a blue mated to a fawn. Quote from the Keeper of the Australian Greyhound Stud Book:

"Mr. Roy ROBINSON, a renowned canine geneticist in England has advised that there will be some brindles , including blue brindles, so devoid of striping as to appear either Fawn or Blue, but these animals will breed as Brindles. If a greyhound has only one brindle stripe, it should be recorded as a brindle, not as that of its basic colour. In approximately one in 500 litters where both Brindle AND Fawn pups should not appear, breeders actually report there are Brindles and one Fawn or White & Fawn pup. Often upon further inspection the pup

reported as Fawn or White & Fawn is actually Brindle or White & Brindle. On the

very rare occasion, the Fawn colour is confirmed, placing this greyhound in the very

small minority of genetically brindle pups, so devoid of striping as to appear Fawn,

and expected to eventually breed as a brindle. "

I bred an apparently fawn greyhound who was actually recorded by the stud book as brindle because she had one small stripe like an eyebrow. Every time I took her to slips, I was told it was the wrong dog and I had to show the ear marks again. So if you get both fawn and brindle from a bluexfawn mating, either the fawn is really brindle or the puppies are not really fawn which is why I advised waiting as long as possible before registering the puppies. Molly McConkey registered Barmoll Bandmaster as fawn and was astonished when some brindling appeared much later than was normal.

Gay

www.moonlake.co.uk

 

[Rae]

Anyone would think you were getting excited! x