Those pretty looks come with a high price
80-90% of blues and fawns will develop color dilution alopecia during their life time
That means they’ll go bald and develop all kinds of skin disease including. chronic staph infections
You might guess that I’m not very happy about “color breeders”
:(
For a very long time, any color pup than black and rust were culled from the litters
Then Americans got hold of them and Dictator Von Glenhugel was the first red AKC champ and one of the 7 foundation sires so red was accepted
Then Felix vom Ahrtal was the first blue champion and blues were bred despite their coat and skin problems
Fawn (Isabella) came in next and now the dilute colors are so deeply entwined in every bloodline that even the blacks are affected
To this day, Fawns are not accepted in the German standard
(yes I am a purist) ....;)
I assumed the genetics would be so bad for those odd colors, I didn’t even ask. How sad. :o[