First, look at the bottoms of the puppy's feet. At 1-3 days old you can tell if your puppy will be roan or brown & white by looking at the color of the pads of your puppy's toes. If the toe pads are pink, your puppy will be brown & white. If the toe pads are brown or mostly brown, your puppy will be roan.
How can you tell if a Cocker is roan?
On a roan, they will be all black. Liver & White (ticked with flecks of brown) always with brown pigmentation. The pigmented areas of the skin including the nose, eye rims and lips are brown. The soles of the feet have definite areas of brown and white/pink.
Are roan puppies born white?
Instead, dogs with roaning or ticking are born with clear, open white markings which begin to fill in with flecking in the subsequent weeks and continue to darken with age.
What is roan markings on a dog?
Roan is a pattern that produces heavily mottled white areas. Often only a small amount of scattered white is visible. The three dogs above are extreme examples of roan. The Australian Cattle Dog and Basset Bleu de Gascogne are genetically black-and-tan, so the roaning is black on the body and tan on the points.
What is a roan Cocker?
Roan Cocker Spaniels The coloured hairs are usually found in solid patches or clumps, whereas the white areas are often flecked or 'ticked' with the solid colour.
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