TURBO DOG
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: ANGIE, LA
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Re: Mtn Cur Color
quote: Originally posted by Lingarcur
Just wondering if you all have seen many curs with alot of white. I got a pup from a friend of mine, the father of the pup was a nice brindle male and the mother yellow. well my pup looks like an over sized jack russell has a yellow head with a blaze small spot on his shoulder and a spot on his rump there also was a brindle pup came out the same way all the rest where brindle anyone ever see many mtn curs this way. very smart pup that i can't register as a mtn.
I won’t go into a lot of detail and will not try to speculate from where the pieball coloration came from but I will share a little about the genetics!
The Pieball pattern on a dog is determined by the “S” locus or white spotting. The Pieball gene “sp” is a recessive gene to ‘S’ or non spotting but are incomplete dominance meaning that a dog carrying the recessive ‘sp’ pieball gene expresses its most dominant gene but can also be affected by the recessive gene such as the pieball gene but not to the extent of the pure pieball or ‘sp sp’ dog such as the Walker Hound.
For example all these cur dogs you see with a lot of white trim or chrome on the legs, face and chest are more than likely carrying the recessive pieball gene as ‘S sp’. These ‘S sp’ dogs can and will show varying degrees of white form almost none to very heavy Chrome with an occasional small white open spot usually behind the neck or on the back in the tail area. This is a dead giveaway of the ‘sp’ gene carried in a recessive state.
Now, when you breed two dogs that are carrying the recessive pieball gene and a pup happens to receive a pieball gene from both parents! “Whala”, you get a pieball pup out of a litter of brindle, yellow, etc pups.
A lot of dogs may carry the pieball gene and are solid colors or brindle with very little to no white. The recessive gene may stay hidden for many years and then pop up expectantly.
As breeders you may try and bred away from the pieball genes and you can to some degree but it may and usually will be carried in a recessive state for many generations to only 'bite you in the butt' when you least expect it!!
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