How To Breed A Blue Merle Border Collie

Due to this high level of approval desire and demand you may well find that you have to pay quite a lot more for a blue merle Collie than a regular Border Collie.

How to breed a blue merle border collie. A recessive red dog will not display any merle because it is unable to make eumelanin in its coat and the merle gene only affects eumelanin black liver blue and isabella. Blue tri-colored Borders also have a dominant merle gene. But this gives a fifty percent chance of getting a blue merle.

In order to show a blue coat colour a dog must carry two recessive dilute genes - one from each of his parents so either his parents must have been solid black or solid red and carried the dilute gene or been blue or lilac dilute red themselves. With proper training they excel at. Blue MerleRed Merle puppies.

Breeding merle-to-merle will inevitably cause deafness as well as vision problems in future generations because of genetic conflict. The reason why is quite interesting. What it does is take a dominant color like black and dilutes it to make that grayish or bluish shade with swirly and splotchy streaks or lines.

Blue Merle Border Collie Grooming. Tricolor patterns will show various combinations of red black and white. I have bred and met hundreds of blue and lilac border collies and have only ever seen one affected with this condition while visiting a dog show out on the continent.

Just when you think youve seen the ultimate color pattern a dog like Ranger Quantum Leaps Blue Ranger left comes along. You will find Collies in this list of colors. Border Collies with lilac coat coloration boasts of a combination of blue and chocolate.

So this clone of skin cells with normal melanosomes loaded with black pigment will produce a spot of hair that is black or grey producing a blue merle. This dog got its unique appearance from being twice diluted first by the bb gene which changes black to brown and second by the dd gene which dilutes the black color to blue or gray. Because of this the pattern is admired by many dog-lovers.