Solid coat... Inbred??

[hils]

Please could someone enlighten me on this.....

I have been told that the solid colour cockers are more inbred to gain a solid coat... is this true at all?

Hilary

[Jane S]

Nope, not true if you're talking solids generally. You might however see more close breeding in the less common colours (eg liver, liver and tan) since there is a small gene pool for these colours so the same dogs do tend to crop up over and over again in pedigrees (show-type ones anyway)