4J ACRES SCOTCH COLLIES

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Our Scotch collie/OTFC puppies are born and lovingly raised the first 3 weeks in the house.  Then they are moved outside along with the dam to a large fenced pen with plenty of room to run and play.  We spend lots of time with them and invite our friends to come play with them too.

 

After 17 years of breeding these old farm collies, we understand the characteristics and instincts needed in a collie that can be a companion family dog, farm worker, or therapy service dog. That is why we feel it is important to pick a puppy by character close to 6-7 weeks of age. We strive to make this a personal adoption for each person. We hope that each new owners experiences will be as good as ours with these adorable dogs.

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The dam and pups are well fed and raised on  puppy food that does NOT have soy, corn, or wheat.  They are wormed and given their first set of shots. The puppies are seen by our Veterinarian for a health check.

Pups go home with their own individual puppy bag that has their Puppy Papers, puppy food, teddy bear and 3 NuVet pills that will last 12 days.

We do not ship/fly puppies. They are picked up here on the farm.

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Visit: Old Time Scotch Collies at:    http://www.scotchcollie.org/

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Collie Colors:

The two base color genes in collies are brown (sable) and black (tri color). In the breed brown is dominant and black recessive. A puppy inherits one color gene from each parent. Therefore, if a collie inherits a dominant brown gene from each parent, he/she is a “pure for sable” (homozygous for brown). If on the other hand, a recessive black gene is contributed by each parent, the collie will be a tri-color (homozygous for black). Some collies inherit a brown gene from one parent and a black one from the other making them tri-factored sables (heterozygous genetically although still brown in appearance).

Dr. Vaughan explains the process that delivers color to a collie’s coat:
Specialized skin cells produce pigments called melanins that come in black or brown. These are not free dyes, dissolved in the cell water but instead are solid pigment particles built up in tiny bodies called melanosomes. The skin pigment cells pass these melanosomes into hair follicle cells which produce the hair strand.

If a hair follicle does not receive melanosomes, the hair strand it forms is un-pigmented, white, as in the majority coat of a white Collie or the neck region of colored collies (from the Irish pattern gene). If all the melanosomes that a growing hair strand receives contain black melanin, the hair strand itself will be black, as in the black areas of a tricolor collie. And if the melanosomes the follicle receives from the pigment cells are all brown, the hair strand will be brown, as in the brown coat of a pure sable or tan points on a tricolor.

This process continues throughout the life of the dog, and with each fresh coat may alter the amount of pigment. An example is the mahogany sable coat of tri-factored sables. When puppies many look much like pure sables, and almost all the developing hair in the first coat is brown. However, as the dog ages, some black melanosomes are put into the growing hair strands, so the coat develops a deepening dark appearance.( www.colliehealth.org)​.