Red Merle Dilute Black Tri Australian Shepherd

Whether you have a black tri red merle or blue merle aussie there really is no difference other than the cosmetics or appearance.

Red merle dilute black tri australian shepherd. Tail edit. However they re extremely rare and aren t considered completely ethical to breed. The puppy on the right is a normal black tri. In general however black aussies self bi color or tri color tend to have brown eyes while red self bi color or tri color aussies tend to have amber eyes though these aussies may also carry the blue eyed gene.

All 4 colors each of these can have a copper or white trim. These coats are usually formed by having a gene expressed for either black or red coloring plus another gene expressed that allows the copper patches to appear. True black and dilute. The color of the stripes an aussie could vary depending upon whether the dog has genes for black or red merle or not.

The eyes are changing color to dark amber or brown and the nose leather is black. There are 4 colors the australian shepherd can be blue merle black or tri black red merle and red. She had no merle when i got her at 8 weeks but as she matured it became apparent that she had some areas of merle most of which you do not see unless the hair is brushed backward. Although tri colored is the most popular variation of this coat color there are many with just black and white.

Whether any given aussie is black or red is rather simple. The basic colors are body colors of black and red. Not all dilute aussies have the mlph dilution and these dogs are likely among them. These are called black bi australian shepherds which stand for black bicolor.

My own black tri has turned out to be a phantom merle. The brindle stripes could also be dilute in the unlikely circumstance than an aussie was also homozygous for the dilute gene. Dilution spot on a red merle. If there is even just one spot of merle then the pup is genetically a merle.

The merle phenotype in australian shepherds is very similar to the coat color in mitf mouse mutants. The rest of the color will be beige to deep red. The tri colored black coat as described above is not the only possible combination of black australian shepherds. The merle gene is added to create the distinct colors of the aussies.

The coat is an. Some dilute australian shepherds are born dilute but darken as they mature often to a point that they are indistinguishable from a normally colored dog. There are many other colors for these dogs such as sable yellow and other dilute colors. There are two common tri color combinations seen in australian shepherds.