Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789.
The fawn colour is the result of two recessive genes. It is achieved by breeding dogs that one way or another do carry the dilution gene either i...
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Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789.
The fawn colour is the result of two recessive genes. It is achieved by breeding dogs that one way or another do carry the dilution gene either in its homozygous or heterozygous form, that is the "D" and the chocolate gene "B". Black to black or black to red, red to red or black to blue, or even blue to red colour can produce a fawn coloured offspring, but only if the genes pair correctly and if they are both carrying the recessive form of the "B" and "D" gene.
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