Reptiles101
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Ellann there just gorgeous!, congrats on the beautiful new additions. Mum's also gorgeous too!
Congratulations! Some varied colours. Mum is beautiful! I have been researching Dane's for a few months now and want one. What colour was the father?
Congratulations on the puppies I hope they all grow up strong and healthy for you. Will you be keeping any?
Thank you Father is a harlequin Great Dane as well but he was born from a blue mother so I'm guessing that's where the merls colouring has come from! They are such beautiful dogs! They are so tiny when they are born compared to how big they get! I just love the smell of puppies haha.
Merle gene does not come from blue. Statistically speaking you always get merle and double merle, from breeding harli to harli. Homozygous harlequin is lethal/stillborn, and homozygous (double) merle is sometimes lethal, as well as making deaf and or blind puppies. Double merle harlequins are nearly all white or all white, and are usually deaf and or blind, with other issues like auto immune problems and skin problems.
My Zeke is a double merle from a backyard breeder, and luckily has all his sight and hearing, but he does have skin issues. The safest way to breed harli puppies is to cross them to a mantle, as you don't get any lethal combinations or compromised health.
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I am sure Ellannn didn't know about the lethals and nasty side of hari to harli matings though. Sorry if this upset you. Looks like you may have one all white puppy though, (harli double merle). He/she will most likely be deaf and possibly blind, among other things
They can still have those issues if they are only very lightly markedNo no we don't have an all white puppy. All 3 of the white puppies have markings on them.
Thanks for clearing a lot of that up ingie. You have some beautiful dogs. Just trying to convince my wife right now to get a Dane,as we have 2 other dogs and she is not too keen
What a silly neighbour! At least he saved your dogs though. I just put up the info in case anyone else was overcome by the cuteness of your puppies and decided to have a go I only started looking into it because I was noticing some issues in both of the litters my puppies came from, and I decided I wanted to be a breeder of great danes in the future, with good ethics. One of mine was from a BYB, and the other from a registered breeder. The registered breeder turned out to have no morals as he was doing everything knowingly, because he wanted money, and my very expensive puppy has ectropion (a dominant heritable eye disorder that the mum and grandpa have), food and skin allergies and an aggressive temperament, which his siblings share. I didn't know what I was looking at when I looked at the parents, but I know better for the fiture. This guy also forged my signature on a co ownership contract and was harassing me, so I had to move house. That is another story LOL.
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They can still have those issues if they are only very lightly marked
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