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Coat color question

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I'm looking to research colors some of the specific on coat color in poo's and am wondering if any of you have any good places to start. Specificly I want to know more about colors that fade, like the different variations between chocolate and cafe-au-lait, and Blue and Silver. I was surfing the web tonight blindly, just killing time, and ran across a breeder advertising Brown spoo puppies for sale. Her big sales picth was "won't fade". My question is how do you know? How can I look at a puppy without knowing it's genetic background and know what color it's planning on being? Is that even possible in poodles? I can look at a tibbie and tell you what color that puppy will be without question. But tibbies don't fade and change the same way poo's do. Do you just roll the dice so to speak in those cases. I'm obviously excluding the fact that the breeder would pressumably know what color mom and dad as well as there parents were and would know at least a little bit about the genetic involved with the colors. I want to know how (or IF) I can know what I'm looking at.

Hubby saw a picture of a red poodle the other day and is now leaning heavily on me to avoid getting another cream or white colored dog. He wants Silver/Blue, Chocolate, Red, or Black. I want to understand what that cute little *insert color here* puppy will look like when it's all grown up. I guess I'm a bad person but I am soo visual that I aside from health and temperment, color is very important to me.
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Well The thing is most breeders who have red standard breeders are just breeding for $$$ they are scamming people who have not done the research. They are not testing for the Fade gene so its a gamble , the pups can come out whatever way. They also do not have proven stock.

With the chocolates its the same They fade but there are more chocolate breeders with dogs that do not carry the fading gene.

Susan has a program she is working on with a few other breeders have you seen hogan ?

if not here he is , susan will be using him in her program.



here is some deep red standard poodles I am not sure if they really are this red still but I might drive to her kennel to see them with my own eyes





She has no problem for visitors coming to see her dogs she actually prefers it so it will be interesting if they really are that red cause i love how his coat looks.

Bijou kennels state they dont fade either and she is part of the ARPC
http://www.bijoupoodles.com/

http://www.apricotredpoodleclub.com/

Terry from farley D poodles has some reds that stay We have personally talked to him over the phone about his dogs. My sister calls him weekly he is our mentor along with susan.

Dona on his website is 13 years old and is still that color.
http://www.farleysd.com/dona.htm
that first dog is the most beautiful red I have ever seen!
Well The thing is most breeders who have red standard breeders are just breeding for $$$ they are scamming people who have not done the research. They are not testing for the Fade gene so its a gamble , the pups can come out whatever way. They also do not have proven stock.

With the chocolates its the same They fade but there are more chocolate breeders with dogs that do not carry the fading gene.

Susan has a program she is working on with a few other breeders have you seen hogan ?

if not here he is , susan will be using him in her program.



here is some deep red standard poodles I am not sure if they really are this red still but I might drive to her kennel to see them with my own eyes





She has no problem for visitors coming to see her dogs she actually prefers it so it will be interesting if they really are that red cause i love how his coat looks.

Bijou kennels state they dont fade either and she is part of the ARPC
http://www.bijoupoodles.com/

http://www.apricotredpoodleclub.com/

Terry from farley D poodles has some reds that stay We have personally talked to him over the phone about his dogs. My sister calls him weekly he is our mentor along with susan.

Dona on his website is 13 years old and is still that color.
http://www.farleysd.com/dona.htm
what a beautiful red! my favorite!
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