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1.
Pure for sable. This is a product of two sable parents and carries no tri-color gene at all. Usually a light or orange sable.
This dog can only produce sables no matter what you breed it to.
2. Tri-factored a shaded sable, mahogany sable, or black-tipped sable. These are the rich reds with the black overlay
and the dark face mask. They can also be very bland in color. A tri-factored sable can produce sables and tris depending on
what it is bred to as it carries a tri gene.
3. Tricolor. This (pictured to the right) is
the black Collie with the tan points. It has a black body that varies in depth of color. It again can produce sables or tris
depending on what you breed to. It can be carried as a recessive just like the sable..and this would be your tri-factored
sable.
4. Blue Merle and/or Sable Merle. A merle
is a tri-colored dog or a sable-colored dog with a dominant dilution gene and the dominant dilution gene is what makes it
become a merle. IT IS NOT RECESSIVE. IF IT IS PRESENT..THE DOG IS A MERLE . There is no way to get a merle unless you
breed to a merle. You can think if it being inherited independently of color. A Blue Merle is a tri-colored dog with a dominant
dilution gene. A Sable Merle is a sable-colored dog with a dominant dilution gene.
5. White. The white gene is also carried independently
of color. White in the Collie is not so much as a color as a condition just like the dilution gene we just went over. The
white Collie does come with a color that is inherited just like a non-white collie. In the white though, the only place you
usually see the color is
on the head and maybe a body spot or two. The white means that they inherited the
white gene and can produce a white.
Q. What does “Wf” mean?
A. ”Wf" is an
abbreviation for “white factored”. White factored dogs usually have a large white frill, a heavy white tail tip,
possibly a body splash of white hairs and white extending upward from their hind feet over the stifle and will meet the white
underbody.
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