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Offline heelers n cockers

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Re: colour mixing question?
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2010, 06:30:39 PM »
Patrick has parti-colour about seven generations back (Travis and Northworth breeding) he is solid Black/Tan without any stray white hairs anywhere.  :005:
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Re: colour mixing question?
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2010, 12:47:39 PM »
My understanding of it not being done in the past, apart from the possible mismarked puppies is that FN was a problem in parti-colours but not in the solids.


That's interesting as Muffin, solid black show type, is an FN carrier.  As her pedigree contains well known show kennels I would of thought that there would not have been parti-colours mixed in as they were being bred for showing.

However lots of owners of solid show cockers always ask how i got his coat to be so soft, so now im wondering i the parti colouring has caused it to be so much softer than some of the solid cockers you see.


Muffin also has a very soft coat, but that might be because she has been spayed. :D