PUMI COLOURS

Part VI. Standard Colours Of Pumi

FCI STANDARD N 56.

Colour:
- Grey in various shades (normally, the colour at birth is black, turning grey with time).
- Black.
- Fawn. Primary colours: red, yellow, cream (a trace of black or grey and a distinct mask are desirable). A white mark on the chest less than 3 cm in diameter and/or a white line on the toes are not faulty.
- White.

The coat colour must always be intense and solid.

Inheritance Of Standard Colours Of Pumi

Inheritance Of Homozygote Dominant Black-born Grey Pumis

The normal black-born grey Pumi genetically is black. Grey puppies are born black and become grey in age of 1—1,5 year. Grey colour is the result of the semi-dominant gene for «greying (silvery)», which is located on a totally different allele in the color genetic code, which is shown as the G series. I call it «silver factor». Black-born grey colour is inherited independent from the main coat color (black, gold-sable).

Adult silver-factored Pumis are easy to discover, they are dark-grey coloured. The colour of adult double silver-factored (GG) Pumi is silver-grey.

Inheritance Of Homozygote Dominant Sabled Red/Yellow Pumis

Sabled red/yellow (árnyékolt fakó) Pumis are fawn—red—yellow—cream—ivory basic coloured with black (dark-grey, grey, silver-grey) shading [ & mask, which is very rare in Pumis].

Sabled red/yellow Pumi maybe silver-factored too. The mechanism of inheritance is as in case of black colour. Double silver-factored gold-sable puppies are born in black-shaded fawn colour and become silver-shaded light-yellow or cream colour in age of 1—1,5 year.

All of puppies will be sabled red/yellow colour. They maybe without silver factor, silver-factored or double silver-factored too. The sable red/yellow colours maybe modified by chinchilla gene to lighter (cream) colours.

Inheritance Of Heterozygote Black-born Grey Pumis

Puppies maybe homozygote and heterozygote black-born (grey) and sable yellow colours. They maybe without silver factor, silver-factored or double silver-factored too. The sabled red/yellow colours maybe modified by chinchilla gene to lighter (cream) colours.

Inheritance Of Homo x Heterozygote Dominant Black-born Grey Pumis

All of puppies are black-born (grey) colours, some of they are heterozygote to sable yellow colour. They maybe without silver factor, silver-factored or double silver-factored too.

Inheritance Of Heterozygote Dominant Black-born Grey & Dominant Sable Yellow Pumis

Puppies maybe heterozygote black-born (grey) and sabled red/yellow colours. They maybe without silver factor, silver-factored or double silver-factored too. The sabled red/yellow colours maybe modified by chinchilla gene to lighter (cream) colours.

Inheritance Of Recessive Red/Yellow & Dominant Sable Red/Yellow Pumis

In the case of coupling parents with genotypes: {A_y-,EE,kk}x{A_y-,ee,KK}, all of puppies {A_y-,Ee,Kk} will be BLACK colour!

ATTENTION! THE NOSE MUST ALWAYS BE BLACK IN ALL COAT COLOURS!

   

2003—2007 © Länger Tamara
© Photos courtesy of Olajos Andrea, ALEX, Drobilich Tímea, Anghi Edit

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László Zöldág. «Canine breeding and health protection», 1998
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E. Jerusalimskiy. «Canine exterrior and qualification», 2002
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