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Location: Somewhere around here | I know there are a few doxie lovers and owners on here and I'm hoping to get to help on genetics and breeding right. Me and my husband are being offered a pretty dappled female mini doxie at a low price and we are considering buying her. One of her parents is a dapple and the other is solid. Our male is solid red but has a partial blue eye. His parents are like the females, one is solid and the other dapple.
I know breeding two dapples is a big no-no and we definitely do not want any double dapples due to the percentage of deaf and/or blind pups with an over amount of white on them. I'm trying to figure out what kind of percentage we might have of double dapple pups if we did breed our male and this female together. My husband says it's low enough we should buy her but I'd like to hear what everyone thinks. |
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Location: Kansas | I love dappled weenies LOL. I found this website, but not sure how you would even go about using it lol
http://colorgenetics.info/canine/puppy-coat-color-calculator
Edited by hoofs_in_motion 2015-05-14 12:06 PM
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Location: Somewhere around here | Thanks! Lol I went there and wow, I am definitely not smart enough to do this! I tried it for a few minutes but I think I just got more confused. |
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Location: Kansas | are you able to get blood drawn and test color genetics like horses? |
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| I would say if the male has parent(s) that are dapple, you might not breed to the female. If he had both solid parents, I'd say go for it.
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| The dapple or merle gene is the same in any breed of dog. You can most definitely breed a solid to a dapple regardless of the grandparent colors. HOWEVER, being that your stud dog has a modeled eye I would definitely have him color tested before breeding him to a dapple female. He may actually be carrying the dappled gene and it is only showing in his eye and not in his coat. Blue eyes and modeled eyes are usually not present in solid colored dogs and it would leave me to believe your male might be a "miss marked" dapple.
Edited by cyount2009 2015-05-14 2:20 PM
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2015-05-14 12:03 PM
I love dappled weenies LOL. I found this website, but not sure how you would even go about using it lol
http://colorgenetics.info/canine/puppy-coat-color-calculator
This wouldn't work unless you actually knew the genetic coat carriers of each parent. The only way to know for sure is have them color tested. |
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| I found this. It explains exactly what I was talking about with the modeled eye on your male!
b. Other colors of dapples are often so lightly dappled, they are not marked as dapple on their papers.
Solution: Again, be sure to record dapples at birth. A good sign of a dapple (assuming one of the parents was a dapple) is if a puppy has any blue flecks in the eyes. The dapple pattern can color the iris of the eyes, just as it covers the color of the coat. When the dapple pattern hits the iris, it turns it blue, like that of a Siberian Husky. Since the dapple pattern is so sporadic, it can hit just a spot on the eye, causing a normal color eye with a tiny blue fleck. Always mark blue eyed or partial blue eyed pups as dapples if there is even the slightest chance that it is a dapple.
And here is the full webpage I pulled it from.
http://www.dachshund.org/article_double_dapple.html |
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