Merle is a word used to describe a bird that has a mottled or speckled color pattern. It is often used to refer to some types of blackbirds or thrushes that have a mix of dark and lighter colored feathers.
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There are also some breed specific issues you will need to research if you want a certain pastoral type: for example those related to the Blue
Merle gene in Border Collies, or hip problems in German Shepherds.
Only a couple years later, did I realize this was the result of
double Merle breeding.
All of the above information applies to any color
of merle dog.
Many Double
Merle dogs come from disreputable sources, such as uninformed back - yard - breeders or puppy mills (none of which are concerned with the health of the dogs they breed or produce, or the emotional impact on the unsuspecting families purchasing those dogs).
Dogs with
merle coats often have one or two blue eyes as well.
Like all dogs
with merle color variations, higher rates of deafness are to be expected.
Madison my 11 months old
red merle Australian shepherd started yesterday to sneezing like 20time without stopping also she feel a little worm tonight my neighbor babysit her and said she had blood nowhere stool, right now we going through a separations so Madison and I are a little nervous I am so scare to loose her.
She is journal published («Collie Eye Anomaly in Australian Shepherd Dogs» Rubin, Nelson and Sharp, Progress In Veterinary & Comparative Ophthalmology, 1991, 1 (2): 105 - 8 and «KITLG maps to canine chromosome 15 and is excluded as a candidate gene for
merle in dogs,» Schmutz, Berryere and Sharp, Animal Genetics, 2003 Feb; 34 (1): 75 - 6.)
While blue can occur on other coat patterns, only blue eyes on
merle pattern coats are show quality.
We hope that you will help us educate people to never
breed merle dogs together (How about not breeding at all?!)
Gist: Based on Sybil Rosen's memoir Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze, this is about the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement that spawned the likes of
Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
Retrotransposon insertion in Silv is responsible
for merle patterning of the domestic dog.
Rascal is a 7 - yr old
sable merle sheltie with a lot of white in his coat.
Though Prince and Bowie dominated the headlines, the year of 2016 has taken so many other influential musicians as well, such
as Merle Haggard, Maurice White, Denise Katrina Matthews (Vanity), Glen Frey and Phife Dawg of Tribe Called Quest, to name a few.
Allow us to uncover the truth about blue
merle Great Danes.
«RealtyUSA is truly one of America's great real estate companies, led
by Merle Whitehead, who is recognized as a national leader in real estate,» said Howard W. «Hoby» Hanna, IV, president of Howard Hanna Real Estate Brokerage.
The most severe abnormalities occur in
homozygous merles with an excessive white hair coat involving the head region.
Unscrupulous breeders will sometimes sell double
merle puppies as «rare albino» versions of the breed.
Scooby Scooby is an 8 to 10 year old Red
Merle Australian Shephered who was rescued from the Camarillo shelter in 2013.
Several breeds are known to
carry merle as a color pattern but the APBT is not one known to have ever carried this «infected» allele.
Instead, neutralize redness and mask your tired eyes with this ingenious inner eyeliner
from Merle Norman.
These tests have given way to the hypothesis that there is a tremendous amount of the phantom
merle allele contained in the Catahoula.
«When the market was booming, unprofitable offices fell through the cracks,» says
Merle Whitehead, president and CEO of RealtyUSA in Orchard Park, N.Y., who has closed five of his 62 offices in the past six months.
This press release
on merle gene testing is reprinted with permission from the Great Dane Club of America.
I had been wanting to check out Flix Brewhouse since they opened
at Merle Hay Mall and this was the perfect opportunity.
Norman Reedus (Daryl) originally auditioned for the part of
Merle Dixon.
Mr. Hall crossed several blue
merle Collies with some Dingoes that he had tamed.
Curated by
James Merle Thomas (Dept. of Art History, Temple University), the exhibition and related programming will support the English translation of Penser l'Afrique [Thinking Africa], a book by philosopher Bourahima Ouattara, and is the inaugural North American solo exhibition of Christian Nyampeta, a visual artist and researcher who works across art, design, and theory.
Des Moines, Iowa — Cushman & Wakefield served as the financial advisor to an affiliate of Abbell Associates in arranging a $ 48 million senior loan for
Merle Hay Mall.
For jewelry style, I LOVE the taste of
Merle Oberon, who had a fabulous collection, leaning heavily on exquisite turquoises and emeralds.
This beautiful Red
Merle Female «Star» is looking for her forever home.
She is a gorgeous 6 year old sable
merle sheltie mix with 1 blue eye and 1 brown eye, the brown eye has a spot of blue in the middle.
This breed has a gene for
merle coloration that may also carry a blind or deaf factor.
«Howard Hanna is the largest family - owned real estate company in America,»
says Merle Whitehead, chairman of Howard Hanna New York and former owner of RealtyUSA.
An art historian and contemporary art curator by trade, James
Merle Thomas specializes in the post-war era.
Louis J. Picker, MD, delivering the 2015
Merle Sande Memorial Lecture.
These have defective hearing and / or vision, so responsible breeders don't match two
Merles together.
It is common to see
merle marking of different shades or solid red.
«Going to the doctor has now become a military exercise,» longtime activist and clinic owner
Merle Hoffman said.
It is common to
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Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him,
Merle makes away with a beautiful woman and a piece of the take.
The gene that
cause merle coats in dogs can also affect eye color, such as causing ice blue eyes, and can also effect skin pigment.
This gives way to the thought that the parents were cryptic or near
cryptic merles.