a red leg from my understanding is a throw back, Ive never heard of a litter of redlegged puppies. In any breeding you can produce modified coats in different degrees and pure silk coat in the same litter because of a throw back which is no different.
Breeding silk to silk can throw back most anything as well, perhaps the odds are less I dont believe there is anything written to support either or to guarantee that every single time you will get pure silk.
Pat then what youre suggesting breeding Mercedes is a risk in coat texture she is silk, mom was silk, the modified is on the dad side and prevelant in the so-sweet line. There is a chance her kids may be modified but I bred her to a pure gun metal blue silk, I want dark kids not tan/silver so I chose to do it. If this is the only fault at risk then I am jumping off the bridge into the water.
Breeding Hannah to someone that is both lighter/darker intermingled in color not pure in his gold/tan markings, eye rims, etc then I think its worth a try. Oh and BTW she came from a silk to silk breeding.
An example is summer/ransoms dad he has two colors in his markings and has zero "no" black eye rim, those are faults yet he had no problem championing.
just my 2 1/2 cents
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