Sentences with phrase «merle coat colours»

The piebald, extreme white and merle coat colours are associated with deafness, selection against which would eliminate the problem.

Not exact matches

Double merles are often partially or completely white in coat colour (sometimes termed albino, though this is not entirely accurate).

Sometimes dogs may appear to have normal coat colouring but are in fact merles and will produce puppies with the merle colouration.

The merle gene causes the coat hair to produce a faded, or shaded colour (hence the merle pattern), two merle genes together often cause the coat to be white or with limited merle shading.

A dog with a merle coat is characterised by having patches of hair with diluted pigment (colour).

Breeders may therefore try to pass off their double merle pups as a different coat colour that has not resulted from merle - to - merle breeding.