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Gray/mouse walkers

Does anyone have pictures of a full grown mouse color walker? I've got a litter that had four mouse puppies in it.

What line of dogs?
I used to get mouse colored dogs when I line bred finley river dogs back in the 80s and 90s... and blue eyes.

The Yadkin River dogs used to have some gray ones.

Grey colored Walkers

I highly suspect the grey color was a throw back to the running Walkers or Foxhounds. I am not in any way slamming these dogs, just expressing my thoughts. The running dog blood added a desired quality to the tree dog bloodline. We are still getting some benefits from this, albeit not very much. Dave

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mouse colored walkers:

In the late '60's I saw a litter of registered walker pups and more than half of them were mouse colored.The owner of the pups said the color came from double bred Merchant's Bawlie bloodlines. Lyndell Price of UKC fame knows of this litter and probably knows more about mouse colored walkers than anyone I know.

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Purgatory Blueticks A-top of the Eastern Divide in the Blue Ridge Mtns.

I read some about something like this on a forum talking about the "blue" color in some mountain curs. Unless I am mistaken; and this does seem odd to me..the mouse or blue coloration is a mutation of the black color. I don't claim to understand it; that's what the experts are for.
I do recall a guy breeding a female to Lipper back around 1990. One of the pups was this color or as it was described to me.....meter box gray. I wondered at the time about it but assumed something else had gotten in the pen up there.

way back in the 60's there were a good many hounds of the Hershberger line that carried the mouse coloration. was said to have originated from Goodman fox hounds.. which definitely had that color faze .. I did hunt with of them that had the mouse color and lots of ticking she was a sure nuff coon treer. Allen Criger had her.

Grey/mouse/blue are caused by a simple recessive(both parents must carry it for expression) dilute gene. The dilute affects the black pigmentation causing a dulling color that can be a range of blue to greys along with the eyelid, nose, paw pads being greyish.

Other than it being cosmetic, it does not have any health issues related to it. It's the same type of gene that causes blue beagles.

I have a litter of 8 and 4 of them are mouse

I have a litter of 8 and 4 of them are mouse

I have a litter of 8 and 4 are mouse

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I have a litter of 8 an 4 are gray

In the 70's I bought a gray male. He was a bench champ. and I made him a nite champ. He was a good dog and I breed him to a good female I had at the time he never through an off-colored pup. I never did how t5he guy I got him from made him a Bench CH. I bought him cause he was a good dog. His top side was Finley River.

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