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Red Poodle
Overview
With so many Poodle colors, many cannot choose a favorite. However, it is the red Poodle that is so rare, so stunning and so special.
Bringing this color into the Poodle genes and being able to produce such a shocking and beautiful dog was not easy. Let's take a look at how this was done and what you should know about his particular dog.
Bringing this color into the Poodle genes and being able to produce such a shocking and beautiful dog was not easy. Let's take a look at how this was done and what you should know about his particular dog.
Red poodles are rare and are of a faded gene. When they are produced, the pups usually come from dogs with apricot lines. While the DNA of red poodles still needs to be better understood, they do appear to be of a completely separate gene, sometimes referred to as the “rufus” gene.
This gene may work to darken an apricot (or sometimes a brown) coat. One thing that is clear is that the red gene has absolutely no affect on blacks. The apricot gene is recessive to all Poodles except for the whites.
Red - This only became an official AKC color in 1980 and now many breeders in Canada have come together to form the Apricot Red Poodle Club. A true red will have black points. Liver points are acceptable but not preferred in the U.S.
It took quite a while to achieve the amazing red Poodles that we see today. It was Ilse Konig of the Shangri-La Kennel who first came up with the idea of developing a red color standard.
Experimental breeding was done by matting a small apricot female Poodle to a very large red at Palamares. The very first litter produced four red Poodle puppies. It is said that the color was simply amazing, although the size of the dogs put them into a category that is between the Miniature and the Standard, called the “Caniche”.
The biggest puppy from each litter was then bred…And this is what helped to slowly increase the size of the dog. After quite a few years of breeding and keeping red Poodle puppies, red Standards were then able to be bred relatively easily.
Reds can go through many color changes as the dog grows. They occasionally are born a very bright red and then lighten over time. Some will stay lighter, however in some cases the Poodle will then darken up again as he or she ages. When a red does lighten, the color will usually become a sort of cinnamon color. In most cases, they are exceptionally dark and then lighten between 1 year old and 18 months old.
Experimental breeding was done by matting a small apricot female Poodle to a very large red at Palamares. The very first litter produced four red Poodle puppies. It is said that the color was simply amazing, although the size of the dogs put them into a category that is between the Miniature and the Standard, called the “Caniche”.
The biggest puppy from each litter was then bred…And this is what helped to slowly increase the size of the dog. After quite a few years of breeding and keeping red Poodle puppies, red Standards were then able to be bred relatively easily.
Reds can go through many color changes as the dog grows. They occasionally are born a very bright red and then lighten over time. Some will stay lighter, however in some cases the Poodle will then darken up again as he or she ages. When a red does lighten, the color will usually become a sort of cinnamon color. In most cases, they are exceptionally dark and then lighten between 1 year old and 18 months old.
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The colors of a Poodle is a very complex topic. This, of course is an overview. Do you know the terms used for each part of a Poodle's body that color appears on? Do you know which color to register a Poodle if their color is to be changing as they grow? Did you ever see photos of every Poodle color in the world?
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The colors of a Poodle is a very complex topic. This, of course is an overview. Do you know the terms used for each part of a Poodle's body that color appears on? Do you know which color to register a Poodle if their color is to be changing as they grow? Did you ever see photos of every Poodle color in the world?
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