Thank you sooooo much Pauline and Dawn! Not a silly question.....Mercedes was born gold and will never have a black or silver hair. She was born with an overload of the red gene (bb). Trust me, I was TOTALLY SHOCKED when 2 of them showed up along with 2 standards in my last litter (which is what brought me to YT, but isn't what kept me here
). I'll attach some pictures of them when they were just little babies (one is when they were 10 hours old)....