If you continue to bred blen with dark rivh nose pigment to blen with dark rich nose pigment you will NOT lose nose pigment. You have to make sure the dog you are breeding too does not have a nose out of the bottle. I heard once that if there is a ruby or b/t in the pedigree you will keep rich color. I can assure you there are b/t's and tricolor with weak pigment. Therefore, if you breed your blen with a tricolor with poor pigment you get poor pigment. So just try to stay strong pigment to strong pigment and you won't have a problem either the dog whatever color has strong pigment or it does not.
Just my Opinion humble or not.... LOL Cathy J. Gish Cathryn Bennett wrote: > hello > > I would certainly keep a heavily marked Tri-colour if everything else was > correct about the dog, markings are at the end of the day the "icing on the > cake" and if her temperament, build and movement are correct then she would > be a useful adition to my breeding programme. > > Some of the Uk Champion Tri-Colours have been very heavily marked too, > Ch.Barsac the Palio and Ch.Millhill Le Frere spring to mind to name a > couple!! > > As for losing the tan etc if you keep going tri to tri, I was told that if > you keep putting blenheim to blenheim then you would loose the depth of > nose pigment and that you should breed to a Tri every third or fourth > generation to keep that!! I have also been told in the past that putting > heavily marked to heavily marked will break up colour, I think at the end > of the day you have to trust your own judgement and go with the results, > mark it up to experience whatever the result, I have heard of people who > got a fantastic litter from a mating so they have gone back and repeated it > only to get nothing the next time (A very well known UK kennel it was too!!) > > Cathryn > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. -- http://www.FlyingColorsCavaliers.com ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
