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Originally Posted by Breezeaway  As far as color goes,I do not speak for anyone else, but I breed for a colored head, I personally do not care for the all white face or half white face. I want evenly marked dogs. If I have one born all white face, those dogs are not bred again and the pup is petted out. The parents may/ or may not be bred to another dog and if it happens again they are spayed or neutered. I wait on my pups to see the results of the breeding before I breed the parents again. |
I'm not a breeder so maybe I am not understanding completely. I'm trying to understand this debate.
So if you are wanting evenly colored/marked dogs, are the genes of your dogs different than the genes of Pine Haven's dogs that are spotty and unpredictable which she states are impossible to standardize?
I'm not a breeder, again, but it seems to me that most of the time a blue and gold is bred to a blue and gold you get a blue and gold. The head is gold and the saddle is blue. Your blue might be off or your gold washed out too light or too red but generally speaking the head is gold and the saddle is blue. Those seem like genes that are predictable in terms of placement on the dog whereas the parti colors are not, as Pinehaven said, and I'm just wondering how you can make the colors even when the gene you are working with by its very definition is spotty/unpredictable/random.
Random means random and that is the opposite of predictable which is why I am confused.