Can find this discussion regarding colors of working gsd's. So I am responding here. I was at the national's in Madison WI a few years ago, and many of the dog's were sable, rich in color, not washed out.
Shari
As a not so big fan of sables, i understand your comment. My breeder and I had that talk and got a sable simply because 90% of the good working dogs are sables.
Bi-colors are beautiful! Mainly black, very little tan on face and legs. Yes, I do think Ed has colors posted on his site. Check it out. I believe Ed suggests breeding to CJ, he is a bi-color. Nice looking dog.
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I was told that the difference between a bicolor and a black and tan was that a bicolor was colored like a doberman or rottweiler - the brown coloring doesn't go up past the 'elbow' on the legs, and the dog may or may not have brown 'points' above the eyes. Any more than that and the dog is a black and tan with just a lot of black on it.
If you're breeding for working ability, and not for coat color, then sable coats should be prolific, being most dominant. Showline breeders are more concerned with retaining any black & tan patterns, sable genes having been surfaced and bred out. Unfortunately, emphasis on maintaining certain standards leaves less concern for qualities not so easily measured in show.
Some believe that reintroducing the sable gene into their breeding program actually enhances the color of the black & tan offspring, but this may be a myth.
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