GOLD TOES - Page 4

What is her pedigree Pagan ? Maybe they have a common elder

(L to R) Tika, my pup.  Rookie, 2 yrs he has gold between his toes too, Umi, 5 yrs.  

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/538457.html  Tika

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/481431.html  Rookie

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/422103.html  Umi

Great group picture Kim! Rookie has such deep black pigment I would assume he carries the solid black recessive gene and the dominant gene for sable. That would make him black factored.

According to this thread which was about color and genetics, it would be a dog who is NOT solid black but carries the recessive gene  for solid black. A little "bleed through" on the back of the legs or between the toes does not matter. Someone told me that the solid black dog has a saddle that covers the entire body. A bicolor has the saddle covering almost the entire body. www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/bulletins_read/205393.html#206169

A question on color by darylehret on 18 July 2008 - 02:07

darylehret Posts: 313 Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 06:58 am

I have to admit, I receive requests for black males more than anything else.  If I were to focus on that, I'd probably do pretty well, but my priorities lie in the "working" concept.  I would have recently considered a black son of Norbo Ben-Ju, ATHOS VOM HAUS FERKUHL, but passed because the handler came along as baggage (don't ask, I didn't get it either). The 9+ generations of suppressed black is a good example of how recessives can perpetuate through a bloodline if you don't periodically backcross or linebreed to test your breeding stock.  Continual outcrossing can prolong some inevitable surprises, some of which could be less pleasant.

Daryl Ehret is really up on the genetics and is able to explain the technical stuff in plain English.

Michele and Pharaoh