Chickentrain's Dog Q&A

[JacinLarkwell]

nope. I meant that dogs with full white faces are likely to be deaf because of lack of pigment, but double merle dogs can have merle on any part of their face

Oh, okay

 

[NatJ]

Yeah, but you're never going to have mottled columbian cochins

It's not currently an accepted color in Cochins, but mottling on a Silver Columbian chicken can exist and actually looks kind of pretty--it's like Mille Fleur, but with the black bits on silver (white) instead of on gold. This page has a photo:
http://www.belgianduccle.org/silver-genetics

And yes, it could become an accepted color in Cochins if enough people were willing to spend the time on it.

And we stack up color names all the time:
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
Chocolate Laced Silver Wyandotte
Buff Columbian Wyandotte
Silver Partridge Cochin
etc.

I don't think the dog color names are any worse than the chicken ones, they just aren't the same as the chicken ones. Except for a few obvious ones, like "black."

 

[black_cat]

It's not currently an accepted color in Cochins, but mottling on a silver Columbian chicken can exist and actually looks kind of pretty--it's like Millie Fleur, but with the black bits on silver (white) instead of on gold. This page has a photo:
http://www.belgianduccle.org/silver-genetics

And yes, it could become an accepted color in Cochins if enough people were willing to spend the time on it.

And we stack up color names all the time:
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
Chocolate Laced Silver Wyandotte
Buff Columbian Wyandotte
Silver Partridge Cochin
etc.

I don't think the dog color names are any worse than the chicken ones, they just aren't the same as the chicken ones. Except for a few obvious ones, like "black."

I guess........I just feel like there's so many things that I could stack up with dogs.

 

[black_cat]

Good merle puppies? (looking at breeders to see if I can actually spot good merles from bad)

 

[chickentrains]

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Good merle puppies? (looking at breeders to see if I can actually spot good merles from bad)

slightly concerned about the one on the bottom. It looks OK to me but there is a lot of white on his/her face

 

[black_cat]

Good merle or bad merle?

 

[chickentrains]

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Good merle or bad merle?

looks good to me

 

[black_cat]

Good merle?

 

[chickentrains]

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Good merle?

any dog you see in a dog show is fine, double merles are DQ's

 

[chickentrains]

BTW my dog is a liver brindle