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Do you have a favourite colour in the English Setter?

by Sheree Parrish

Jan 5, 2011

I often wondered if other people have favourite colours.  Strangely enough, my least favourite colour is orange belton, and I have had more orange than anything, my absolute favourite is dark blue belton and tan, as can be seen on the attached photo of my darling boy Fabian:

Fabian went to live with a friend, together with my pointer when illness meant me having to rehome my dogs, he was from the first litter sired by my darling Leon so was a very special boy too.  I still get to see him and would love one just like him in the future.

My husband thought he preferred the blues and, when we lost Leon, we were teasing each other about which colour we were going to get and we ended up with another orange, (Henry, who we wouldn't swap for the world :) ), and he now prefers oranges out of any of the colours.

 

So, I just wondered, do you have a fave colour or do you just take whatever life throws at you.  I realise for show purposes we are looking at construction etc first, but what if two pups are of equal merit but different colours..which would you choose?

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    Lesley Shirley

    Would choose blue over anything but at present have a blue, a tri and an orange!! My husband likes the orange as does my 15 year old son but my older son is more for tris!! In Australia there seems to be a leaning towards orange, not sure why, thing is that judges get used to one colour and does that affect placings?
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    Jan 6, 2011

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      Michelle Walsh

      I really like blue-beltons, especially that blue grey colouring with lots of little flecks in long silky hair, I really think it looks lovley.

      My own 'blue' is very black & white, he has some flecks but I think his face markings are as close to a springer spaniel as you'll ever see :)

      My other setter is apparently a lemon belton or so I've been told, very similar to an orange but with lighter pigment in the eyes & nose & very faint flecking except on his head...so I guess I have a soft spot for this colouring too.

      But Setters tend to look good in any colour if you ask me ! :)

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      Jan 6, 2011

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        Sheree Parrish

        Another trend may be in the making...we were at an open show on Saturday and, of the 20 odd English entered, only 2 of them were blues, the others were all oranges.

        I'm booked into the Midland English Setter Championship show next month, it will be interesting to see what colour is more prominent in the classes there.

        If there were one stud dog in particular that everyone was flocking to, and he were orange I could maybe understand an influx of oranges, but there are a real mixture being used at the moment so I just can't think why this is happening.

        I would add that I am very happy with my orange boy...he won his class again and another reserve best of breed...bless his little orange socks :-)

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        Jan 17, 2011

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