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Apricot Poodle
Overview
Apricots are one of the most beautiful Poodle colors and one of the most sought after. Their coats are a sunny, gleaming hue, producing quite a gorgeous color.
An apricot Poodle may have some deviation in their color, such as a vaguely darker feathering on their ears and/or tipping on their ruff. This variation is not considered a fault under the AKC breed standards..
An apricot Poodle may have some deviation in their color, such as a vaguely darker feathering on their ears and/or tipping on their ruff. This variation is not considered a fault under the AKC breed standards..
Apricots most often have black points which mean the noses, eye-rims and lips, black-or self-colored toenails and very dark eyes. They may, nevertheless, have dark amber eyes, liver nose leather, eye-rims and lips. This, too, is permissible, but not the ideal coloration. This is true for reds as well.
The apricot gene is a recessive to all the poodle colors but white. It is the last poodle color to be recorded.
The apricot gene is a recessive to all the poodle colors but white. It is the last poodle color to be recorded.
It is suspected that apricot is a very rare occurring combination of brown , blue and perhaps white in different concentrations, which then produce the different shades that we see with apricot Poodles.
The very first apricot, Sowden Yellow Gall, bortn in 1898 was actually dubbed a liver by its owner who had browns, therefore it is estimated that the color was perhaps a bit different than the one we know of today.
This same owner produced a litter of 8, 6 were reds and 2 were brown…The sire was liver and the dam a brown. This amazing litter was sold to an English kennel which then worked to continue the apricots and reds, thus allowing us to have apricot Poodles today. At the time, they were working only with Standards.
In the year 1912, Miniatures were starting to become popular and a remarkable pup was born in the Whippendell Kennel, she was a stunning apricot Poodle who had a black brother.
In 1929, there was the first apricot champion, Phigidity Jessie who happened to have a black sire and a blue dam. Higidity Jessie was a Standard.
In the 1930’s some exceptional breeders in the United States began to improve the Poodle lines with the help of English imports. Descendants of the English apricots, carrying the genes are the dogs who are responsible for the amazing color that we have today.
The first American champion was Champion Carillon Amour, in 1935.
In the 1940's poodle breeding slowed down quite a bit due to WWII, however in the 1950's 2 important apricot kennels worked in England to produce excellent apricot Poodles, For toys, they were the Greatcoat lines and in Miniatures they were the Puckshill lines.
The very first apricot, Sowden Yellow Gall, bortn in 1898 was actually dubbed a liver by its owner who had browns, therefore it is estimated that the color was perhaps a bit different than the one we know of today.
This same owner produced a litter of 8, 6 were reds and 2 were brown…The sire was liver and the dam a brown. This amazing litter was sold to an English kennel which then worked to continue the apricots and reds, thus allowing us to have apricot Poodles today. At the time, they were working only with Standards.
In the year 1912, Miniatures were starting to become popular and a remarkable pup was born in the Whippendell Kennel, she was a stunning apricot Poodle who had a black brother.
In 1929, there was the first apricot champion, Phigidity Jessie who happened to have a black sire and a blue dam. Higidity Jessie was a Standard.
In the 1930’s some exceptional breeders in the United States began to improve the Poodle lines with the help of English imports. Descendants of the English apricots, carrying the genes are the dogs who are responsible for the amazing color that we have today.
The first American champion was Champion Carillon Amour, in 1935.
In the 1940's poodle breeding slowed down quite a bit due to WWII, however in the 1950's 2 important apricot kennels worked in England to produce excellent apricot Poodles, For toys, they were the Greatcoat lines and in Miniatures they were the Puckshill lines.
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