Lets see Your bi-color - Page 4

Seems like the points of agreement for what is a bicolor are: toemarks, tarheels, dark underside.

Melanistic/blanket-backed black and tans will often keep the toemarks until their 2nd big coat shed-out. They will get slightly more tan every year as they mature.

Bicolors will always have the toemarks and tarheels and dark undertrimmings.


Here's Lynx as a puppy and as a 11 month old:





Here's his aunt Jubilee, a melanistic black and tan--when she was a puppy, I didn't know whether she was going to be a bicolor or not, but the tan around the base of the ears is a major hint she was going to be a melanistic b/t--you can sometimes also see grizzling around the eyes and forehead.







Christine
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Mine has tan behind the ears, so he must be melanistic B&T. He started out looking like a blanket back but now he has a saddle! Lots of darkness on his legs still at 3 1/2 years, he is ever changing. Thanks Blackthorn!

Bicolor is a genetic trait carried on the A locus, and coverage is variable. You see it in dobes and rotts: some have larger points than others. Honestly, I can't tell the difference from a picture alone a bicolor with large points from a melanistic saddle-back. These dogs all look bicolor to me.

http://www.borzois.com/coat.color/at.html


The definative trait between black-with-areas-of-color and bicolor is the undertail area (vent) as I have observed it is: a bicolor will always have a tan vent, a black won't. I've yet to find a visual determinant between melanistic saddle, and bicolor. I look at pedigrees.

 

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There are some really pretty bi's on this thread, but I really like Xano, Q man. How old is that gorgeous pup? Whats his pedigree?


EDITED:  Never mind Q man.... I got it... DUH!!!!!

Here is our other bi-color male....He is a big lush....but a stallion

This is one of my favorite bi colors...

Wrestleman...I know- I love the rich rich bicolors. I got so lucky w/my Capri being a bi. I didn't ask for color- I only asked for a certain temperament (serious!) and I was so pleasantly surprised when I saw her. If she's standing in tall grass far away, she looks black. Just the tiny specks on her jaw and tiny little eyebrows you can't hardly see w/out a flashlight. She had a really super nice bicolor daughter, Avasha, from her litter in Germany, who turned out way darker than I expected. People always think she's a black w/bleed-through, but she's not. This litter just born has a bicolor male I know I'm going to have a really hard time parting with. Capri has really rich tan/reddish and her pups did too. If he turns out like the last one I'm going to have a really hard time letting him go!