Sable Merle Border Collie Puppy

Trained and training cute tri colored black and white , red, sable, blue merle and gold border collie puppies and dogs. Great dogs and puppies for working farms with sheep and cattle as well as agility and performance events, shows, news, photographs all here in the heartland of our Lancaster county kennel.

Sable merle border collie puppy. The red merle bitch puppy on the left is called Dakota Of Maranns Home and the red merle male on the right is Falconmoor Merle Invasion, called Indy. Indy is an English import. Both beautiful dogs live in Belgium with Marnix and Christel van den Steen, who own the Border Collie kennel Of Maranns Home. Border Collies for Sale Breed Group: Herding Height: 18 to 22 inches at the shoulder Weight: 30 to 45 pounds Life Span: 12-16 years If you’re searching for Border Collie puppies for sale, then say hello to these keen and alert little fur-balls. They’re members of the medium dog breed family and sport coats in colors of black, white, blue, red merle, lilac, brindle, chocolate, blue merle. Browse thru Border Collie Puppies for Sale in USA area listings on PuppyFinder.com to find your perfect puppy. If you are unable to find your Border Collie puppy in our Puppy for Sale or Dog for Sale sections, please consider looking thru thousands of Border Collie Dogs for Adoption. A merle pattern will create merle puppies, but a non-merle Border Collie without the gene, will not spontaneously throw merled puppies. 3. Health issues are riskier with merles (Double Merles) Every now and then, two merles (both carrying the merle gene) mate, and when two merles mate, they have a 25% chance of producing a double merle puppy.

Collie Colors: The two base color genes in collies are brown (sable) and black (tri color). Most of us know that in our breed brown is dominant and black recessive. A puppy inherits one color gene from each parent. Therefore, if a collie inherits a dominant brown gene from each parent, he/she is a “pure for sable” (homozygous for brown). However, just because the merle parent dog is merle and therefore carries the gene, does not guarantee a merle puppy will be born. Maybe you can run across one by chance. But the main way to get your hands on a blue merle Border Collie puppy is to go through a breeder who purposefully breeds this rare color combination of dog. Sable Border Collie. Sable Borders have fur that’s tan- or cream-colored and darker tips. Remember, sable is a type of marking, and it’s sometimes visible on the spots of the dog. Some have black roots, and the tip is light brown. Even if it’s recognized officially as a color of the Border Collie, they’re fairly rare. Brindle Border. Blue Merle Border Collie breeding & genetics. Genetics can be tricky and complicated, but to simply put it, a dog’s coat color is a result of two base colors – a dominant and a recessive gene that it will inherit from its parents.. For breeders to get a blue merle Border Collie, one of its parents should be carrying the merle gene.What it does is take a dominant color (like black) and.

Dog Group: Herding Size: 20-21 inches tall, 25-45 lbs Lifespan: 10-16 years Energy Level: Very High Coat: Medium-long and dense Shedding: Moderate Hypoallergenic: No. History: The Border Collie originated in the United Kingdom in the 1800s for use as a herding dog and guard dog, along with a variety of other sheep herding dogs.Over time, certain kinds of these sheepdogs became preferable over. The slate merle Border Collie is similar to the blue merle. However, this “slate” color is apparent because the blue/black/white coat color has been diluted. For this to happen, the dog needs two copies of the recessive dilute gene and just one copy of the merle. He's otherwise a "normal" (black) sable Border Collie. Having said that, here are several more sable Border Collies with masks. They are, l. to r. and top to bottom, Caroline Penny's Bijou, Georgina Barnett's Chaz, Sherry Todd's Hanna, Darrell Hopson's Rudy, Kathy Clayton's Teagan, and Muriel Herody's Clymens (from France). Blue merle border collie puppies – like all puppies – may be challenging to train, but it’s more than possible and will pay dividends in the future. Risks in Breeding Blue Merle Border Collie. Blue merle Border Collie breeders, as we’ve touched upon, should avoid breeding merles with one another.

Beautiful litter of Border Collie pups; 5 boys available 3 tri colour, 2 black and white. Both parents are our working sheep dogs and can be seen. Mum is tri coloured, great with sheep, other dogs, and children, she is very trainable and gives you the biggest smile. Dad is black and white Sable and white is an accepted, but not a standard, breed coat color for the Border Collie. It is far less common than the prevalent black and white, and is distinguished from the second most common coat color of red or brown and white by the technicality of the banding of the hairs. Sable and White Border Collie littermates Bryn, Ginny and Merlin Cute Puppies, Cute Dogs, Dogs And Puppies, Doggies, Baby Animals, Cute Animals, Animal Magazines, Puppy Care, Puppy Pictures White Border Collie Border Collies Clever Dog Herding Dogs Blue Merle Amazing Dogs 7 Months Cat Paws Merlin Feb 22, 2012 - Explore Jacque Verrall's board "Blue Merle Collies are the Best!" on Pinterest. See more ideas about Collie, Blue merle collie, Blue merle.