colourings

[Dark Side]

Monty's got quite a lot of these, i just thought that he got them from eating mud, also looks like he's been eating something rusty.

[workingcockers]

Alfie's half sister who is black and white ticked has a small patch of liver fur, I can't remember exactly where but I think it's on the underside of her jaw, this means that she carries a liver gene. However, Alfie is a light blue roan and he has a patch of colouring around his mouth the same as that in your photo of Jade but it's not 'genuine' liver or tan fur, it's definitely staining. He also has the same thing between the pads of his feet and again it's staining. It's not the same as the liver patch that his sis has.

Roxanne has 2 x inch wide strips of liver in her black ear - very distinctive as if she has had her hair dyed and wrapped in the tinfoil way hairdressers used to do highlights or lowlights, and both she and Stella (both Alfies half sisters through their sire) have lemon hair on the underside of their other ear. Roxannes full brother had lemon patches on his left ribcage although the rest of him was white and black ticked. Stella has produced liver as has Roxanne. They both have a bit of reddish brown at corner of mouth but this is def staining.

[Countrygirl]

My last cocker, Sophie, had a tiny bit of tan around her mouth and under her chin, otherwise she was completely blue roan.  Her dad was a blue roan and tan so I guess she just got a bit of tan from him.

[PennyB]

It looks like the sort of staining you often see around lighter shaded particolours' mouths - I don't think this is a tan marking but either way it won't make any difference to Jade's blue roan colour

Wilf has this and on him its staining --- he also has it in between his toes