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Cocker Specific Discussion => Genetics & Breeding => Topic started by: lilylulu on July 28, 2008, 09:17:38 PM

Title: lemon and white or orange and white roans ?
Post by: lilylulu on July 28, 2008, 09:17:38 PM

Can smeone please explain the difference between the orange roans and the lemon. Lily is classed as lemon and white but her head is more orange.

Title: Re: lemon and white or orange and white roans ?
Post by: Helen on July 28, 2008, 09:45:35 PM

it's just terminology - In Working cockers the terminology used is Lemon roan, in Show cocker terminology she would be an Orange roan.

Title: Re: lemon and white or orange and white roans ?
Post by: lilylulu on July 28, 2008, 10:00:16 PM

Thankyou they are the same colour really then?

Title: Re: lemon and white or orange and white roans ?
Post by: ladylola on July 28, 2008, 10:43:46 PM

I think it goes on the depth of the colour.I read that Lemons have brown pigmentation around the eyes  and nose and oranges have black.

Title: Re: lemon and white or orange and white roans ?
Post by: Jane S on July 28, 2008, 10:43:56 PM

Technically lemons are much paler than oranges and tend to have liver pigmentation (brown noses) but in practice, the differences aren't always observed when it comes to registering colours, as Helen says.