All that are pictured in both posts are Black /Tan/Whites. A couple are heavily marked with ticking. It would not suprise me if the other had some ticking also (hound in top post.) Take a look at the Blk/Tn/Wh beagle in my post with the foxhounds and also both the foxhounds. They all have the same color genes. They are Bk/Tn/Wh and Ticked. The extent of the piebalding and amount of ticking differs from the ones in your pics, but that is all. If you saw each of the ones in my pics in person you would see some very small tan ticks in the white on thier legs, thus they are dominant for Ticking. It is the rare hound you see that is not dominant for ticking, in foxhounds or beagles.samlyn0001 wrote:What color do you consider this hound? Black and Tan or Black, Tan, and White???
Here are the color gene pairs for all of the pics,
(a-sa,a-sa)(B,?)(D,?)(E,?)(T,?)(s-p,s-p).
The Tn/Wh beagle that has her shoulder marked has one pair different,
(a-sa,a-sa)(B,?)(D,?)(e,e)(T,?)(s-p,s-p).
(She has the ee recessive pair that does not let the primary color (blanket) be exposed. Her black nose and brown eye color gives her away. It tells me if she had a blanket it would be Blk).
The amount of white (or degree of piebalding) and the amount of, or degree of ticking can vary from one tick to a million, it does not matter. The hound will still be dominant for ticking. It does not matter if a hound is 1/10th of one percent white or 99.9 percent white, if it is a beagle it is still a-sa (which indicates a saddle pattern breed) and s-p(which is piebald spotted). Dominants and recessives act much like on-off switches. If the switch is on the voltage is there. We just do not know how big a light etc, we can run from the circuit. (the amount or degree of voltage there) until we measure or try it and then we can grade it. Most color genes and marking pattern gens are autosomal, they are either on-or off. (Shade of yellow (tn,wh,lemon,red,etc.) and chocolate is influenced by what are called Rufus polygenes that act as plus or minus modifiers to determine the shade.)
Always remember that many genetic diseases are also autosomal. It gives uas a way to get rid of, identify etc, in our breeding programs. Other characteristics, whether it be, nose, shoulder layback etc can be tracked using the recessive/dominant and grading the amount, although they are polyenetic. It gives us a tool to use that adds some predictablity to our selection and breeding plans and it will change the way you think about prospective matings and the possible outcomes. (What if you graded the quality of a hounds running using a color scale. Each day you took him out you rated it some shade of red or whatever. At the end of the year you would have a pretty good idea of where your hound was on the running color scale. Could see the change and might help determine what you needed to breed to to build better.) Imagination, objective goals and knowledge. The keys to success in most endeavors.
The reason I used the term Faded tri is because his blanket back was not a solid black. Wasnt when we got him at two and it wasnt the day he died.