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Pictures of Ruby! Sorry if they aren't very good, it's hard to get any good ones of her as she hates staying still long enough for me to snap a picture. She's going to be 13 weeks old tomorrow.
So, I was wondering if someone could say what color they think she is? It's very hard to tell with her, she is supposed to be a blue and white, but she has red markings (depending on how the light hits her), and lighter markings, as well as darker spots. She also seems to have a darker line around the white, and also a possible saddle pattern. And maybe even brindle. She has grayish colored eyes, and a butterfly nose. Her father is black and white, and her mother a blue merle, and she's rather closely related to dogs that are seal, sable, lilac, and a lot of other colors.
The pictures don't show her markings as well as they appear in real life, but it's the best I could do. It's possible she's a merle, which is why I plan to test her for the gene. Lately I've been wondering if she could even be a seal merle. She's a mystery for sure though
Until she is tested for cryptic merle, Ruby looks like a Blue and White BC. Most of the time (I say this because of cryptics) you can tell when a pup is merle vs. blue and white when they're very young. This is why breeders of all kinds of breeds can tell a buyer what color their puppy is and why your breeder told you she is Blue Bi.
This is what a newborn Blue Merle BC pup looks like:
http://tanninbordercollies.com/wp-conte ... y-Copy.jpgmore merle newborns-
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Me0a ... 0&pid=15.1And this is an older Merle pup (only she's a tri) (middy's Kestrel):
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=58F6B66EMiddy has tons of pics of Kestrel as a pup and it is very easy to see she is a Blue Merle tri. Blue merles have black splotches/patches covering their body and I do not see that on Ruby.
Blue and white and blue merle newborns:
http://d121tcdkpp02p4.cloudfront.net/cl ... orns-3.JPGOlder blue and white pup:
http://www.bordercolliemuseum.org/BCLoo ... sBlue2.jpgBlue and white adults. They have some patchiness of white and slight red, but they are still blue and white:
http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/images/clas ... ecfc4b.jpghttp://www.breedyourdog.com/uploads/lis ... ig_016.JPGBrindle is not a very common color in BCs at all and covers a large part of the body, or covers the face and/or legs as points.
Brindle BC pup:
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M0af ... 0&pid=15.1Brindle Adult:
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Mf03 ... 0&pid=15.1Brindle Points:
http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/photos/brindlepoints.jpgSaddle is a pattern in which there is a blanket of a different color covering the back, like a saddle. In saddle BCs, a color will recede to form the saddle. Saddle BCs are Sable and will often start off with a bunch of black or black splotches that then recede to form the pattern.
This is a Saddle pup:
http://www.bordercolliemuseum.org/BCLoo ... 9weeks.jpg The black receded to form the saddle you see on her as an adult:
http://www.bordercolliemuseum.org/BCLoo ... Webley.jpgSeal is also a pretty dark color, not light.
Seal BC pup:
http://www.wilsongbordercollies.com/sit ... 48x162.jpgSeal adult:
http://www.wilsongbordercollies.com/sit ... 67x269.jpgSeal adult:
http://www.wilsongbordercollies.com/sit ... 95x330.jpgThere can be a little patchiness in fur, but it doesn't mean its a pattern indicating a different coat color/pattern type necessarily. Depending on where the sun hits him, my black bi BC has some brown here and there on his fur. However, he is absolutely not red or brindle. He is black bi with some lightened pieces of fur.
