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So you’ve got your new Weim pup’s registration papers in front of you, and you see the boxes to check for color — “gray,” “silver gray” or “blue.” You rule out blue immediately, and now you are wondering the difference is between gray and silver gray. And somehow in the far reaches of your mind [...]
I’m a fan of Blue Weims. I even have a website dedicated to them. So when I received a copy of the new article, “Tracing the origin of ‘the blue Weimaraner’ dogs by molecular genetics” by WM Gerding, S Schreiber, G Dekomien and JP Epplen Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics first published online: 22 [...]
There’s the Shorthair (SH) Weimaraner, the Longhair (LH) Weimaraner, and then there’s those in-between…. You can’t breed for them, but rarely, a breeding of a SH to a LH will produce what is called Stockhaar. Stockhaar coats are an in-between coat with both shorthair and longhair characteristics. They are usually single-coats with longer guard hairs [...]
