Telling a merle pit bull apart from a brindle pittie is relatively easy since theyre vastly different coat patterns. This occurs when a brown dog has small stripes of black or brown.

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In addition brindle and sable merles exist but are typically rejected by breed standards.

Can you breed a merle to a brindle. Not all merles are bad but breeding merle to merle for generations is not a wise strategy. Merble is when both the Merle and Brindle pattern combine into one coat. Sable merles can be difficult to recognize and accidental double merle breedings can occur as a result.

Yes this is possible. One of our Chocolate Seal girls had trindles in her. Same as with Harlequin.

Merle and black are dominant genes. MerleMerle Breeding Can Result In Deaf andor Blind Puppies by. This means that unless you have a very good knowledge of the pedigree of each parent its hard or even impossible to accurately predict breeding.

Recessive red dogs are affected by merle but patches are subtle or not visible at all. A black mask is preferred. Merle can be very difficult to see on a brindle too due to the stripes.

Dappled Dachshunds The dapple merle pattern is expressed as lighter -colored areas contrasting with the darker. Merle once introduced into a gene pool can be masked by a dog with the E Locus or red gene so RedApricotCreamWhite poodle could be Merle and show very little signs of it which makes it even easier to accidently breed double Merle puppies. This can happen when you breed a Merle to a Brindle but it can also happen if you breed a Merle to a solid color that carrys the Brindle gene.

Merle is not the same as brindle. With this breeding assuming the blue merle Mmdd and the brindle DDkk do not carry any other colors you will get regular merles and blacks both carrying for blue and brindle. Now for every color above there is even more variations.

The brindle can also carry unseen colors. Since all puppies carry brindle and brindle is a dominant gene all puppies looked brindle. Be very careful these colors can be called rare.

Black should appear on the eye rims and eyebrows and may appear on the ears and tail tip. Merle will almost always be present in Harlequin litters. It is vital to get a pup checked for the merle gene before breeding them with another dog.

Where merle is random and results in splotches or spots brindle is generally more uniform. A blue merle definitely has 2 blue genes as well as one merle but can carry others as well. I have not done any Merle to Merle breeding and never will.

The brindle can also carry unseen colors so mixing these two danes without knowing what color each has would be a total crap shoot. If there are any spots on other places then it could reflect on their health. You can also have a mix of Dapple patterns with Piebald Sable and Brindle as well as Ticking and shading throughout the body.

There are breeders out there that do. Brindle is one of those colors I associate with dogs especially sight hounds and mastiffs. You can find more information here about breeding merle to merle Australian Shepherds and why its a problem.

The more intensive the base color and the more distinct and even the brindling the more preferred will be the color. I believe in controlled breeding where the outcome is more in the favor of all the puppies being healthy. Anton Breeding merle with merle is not recommended as some of the puppies can inherit the merle pattern from both parents and will become a double merle or homozygous merle aka lethal white.

When Marlee is breed all her puppies will EACH have a 50 chance of being brindle and 50 of her litter can be fawn if she is breed to a Fawn dog kyky. Merle and black are dominate genes. A blue merle has two blue genes as well as one merle but can carry others as well.

However it also occurs in border collies the aforementioned breed of corgi and it is a faulty color in retrievers. Can be bred to solid colors like black and Mantle is safe as well. - Fawn merle x blue brindle mantle Remember that with all of these breedings the results could be very different if both parents are carriers of a recessive gene.

A merle pitbull therefore is a pitbull bred to have this unique color pattern present. Brindle - The base color shall be yellow gold and always brindled with strong black cross stripes in a chevron pattern. Lastly merle can be hidden if the dog has very heavy markings so a blue merle could appear almost completely black if the patches are large enough - you may need to look very closely to see the grey areas.

The SEAL Kb covers over the brindle Kbr and since there is still no way of testing this genes sequences the only way to know for sure that your SEAL carries brindle or not is to breed with a non-brindle dog to see if you get brindletrindle babies. In addition hidden or cryptic merles can occur. Breeding standard suggests that there should be no white patches on a dapple dachshunds coat except maybe on the chest.

It can look tiger-like. It is not its been in the Great Dane breed for a very long time and the only reason you dont see it is because its not bred for mostly. Merle is a genetic marker that results in differences in pigmentation so it can be achieved through breeding.

I encourage you to please do more research on the the Merle. Merle should not be bred to Merle or Harlequin EVER. Too much or too little brindling are equally undesirable.

The odds are extremely high for failure. Since Merle is a semi Dominant gene you must breed a Merle to produce a Merle. Given enough babies you can pretty much determine if your dog is just Kb or KbKbr.

Fawn blue harlequin brindle chocolate and piebald are all recessive genes that can be carried in any color. Dogs with brindle patterns look kinda like tigers with a brown base and black striping while merles feature an overall splotchy look. Please understand that merle of any breed bred to another merle of the same breed or crossbreed can get double merle puppies.

Below is a male puppy who is out of our Sophia and Rodney.