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SABLE |
Dominant over tricolour. Shades may range from straw to red to dark mahogany. |
PS |
PURE SABLE |
Usually a clear shade of straw or orange red. No masking or fringes. These animals can only produce sable colour no matter what colour is bred with them. |
TS |
TRIFACTORED SABLE |
Sable coloured collies carrying the tricolour gene as well as the dominant sable gene. Quite often a dark orange to a very dark mahogany in colour with dark fringes and masking.
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TRI |
TRICOLOUR |
This colour is recessive to sable.Collies are black with white and tan markings on sides of muzzle, above eyes, sides of cheeks, chest, and inner margins of legs.
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M |
MERLE |
This is a dominant dilution gene , which in combination with sable or tri genes produces merled collies. |
BM |
BLUE MERLE |
Bluish gray colour with black splotches, carrying sable markings in the same pattern as the tricolour collie. |
SM |
SABLE MERLE |
This is a sable spotted collie.When they are born , all sable merles will have a bluish tinge on tail and muzzle. This disappears in a few weeks.Brownish merling on the head may or may not disappear as the dog matures.Many sable merles inherit blue or blue flecked eyes.
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PSM |
PURE SABLE MERLE |
This collie will appear to be very light or even have a "washed out " appearance at birth, with brown merling or spots.Quite often the adults lose their merling and the coat colour becomes a clearer red. No tricolour gene is present in their genetic makeup.
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TSM |
TRIFACTORED SABLE MERLE |
This is usually a darker sable colour than the PSM. The coat will have dark brown merling which is quite often still visible at maturity. The tricolour gene is present as well as the merle gene and the sable gene.
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W |
WHITE |
This coat colour is the result of either a cross between two white parents or two white factored parents or a white parent and a white factored parent. It may occur in combination with sable , tri or blue genes. Resulting colours are tri headed white, blue headed white or sable headed white. These are not to be confused with white merles also known as double dilution merles, whose "white" colour results from the double dilution of the merle gene. Colour headed white collies are within the standard to be shown. White merle collies are unacceptable.
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WF |
WHITE FACTORED |
These coloured collies normally have a heavy white tail tip, large white frill and possibly a body splash of white hairs. There is also white extending upward from the hind feet over the stifle to meet the white underbody.
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NON WF |
NON WHITE FACTORED |
Regular coloured collies that do not carry the recessive white factor. |
WM |
WHITE MERLE |
These are a defective white resulting from the breeding of two merled parents.The coat will be almost white in appearance . There may or may not be a few merled spots. Eyes, IF present are pale blue. Skin , including lips, eyelids ,nose and pads are pigmentless, other than in an area of merling.Hearing and sight are severely impaired.
These coloured collies are usually destroyed at birth . If a white merle is raised to maturity , and it is from a BM to BM cross, it can be bred back to a Tricolour and will produce all blue merle pups. This is not true of other white merles carrying the PS or the TS genes when bred to a tricolour.
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