Editing English Cocker Spaniel (section)

=== Colour ===
The breed standard of the United Kingdom's Kennel Club states that in solid colours, no white is allowed except for a small amount on the chest<ref name="standard" /> and the American Kennel Club has standards for features including the expression, neck, topline, and body.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/english-cocker-spaniel/|title=English Cocker Spaniel Dog Breed Information|website=American Kennel Club|access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> In working Cockers, breeders value working ability over the colour of the dog.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Solid English Cocker colours can come in black, liver/brown, red/golden with black or brown pigmentation<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecockerspanielclub.co.uk/colours.htm |title=Understanding Cocker Colours, Patterns and Markings Page 1 |last=Davis|first=Jinty Gill|date=9 September 2000 |publisher=The Cocker Spaniel Club |access-date=7 January 2010}}</ref> and Parti-coloured cockers come in blue roan, liver roan, orange roan with black or brown pigmentation, lemon roan with black or brown pigmentation, black and white ticked, liver and white ticked, orange and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation,<ref name="colours3">{{cite web |url=http://www.thecockerspanielclub.co.uk/colours3.htm |title=Understanding Cocker Colours, Patterns and Markings Page 3 |last=Davis|first=Jinty Gill|date=9 September 2000|publisher=The Cocker Spaniel Club |access-date=7 January 2010}}</ref> black and white, liver and white with brown pigmentation, orange and white with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white with black or brown pigmentation.<ref name="colours4">{{cite web |url=http://www.thecockerspanielclub.co.uk/colours4.htm |title=Understanding Cocker Colours, Patterns and Markings Page 4 |last=Davis|first=Jinty Gill|date=9 September 2000|publisher=The Cocker Spaniel Club |access-date=7 January 2010}}</ref>

Of the solid colours, sable is considered rare and controversial and is classified by some countries as being a type of parti-colour on account of its mixed hair shafts.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} While some have claimed this colour is from a cross with a different breed,{{who|date=February 2024}} geneticists{{which|date=February 2024|reason=Is it just genomia that has reported this?}} have discovered English Cocker sable is unique to this breed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.genomia.cz/en/test/locus-eh|title=Genomia: Testing of dogs: Locus EH|website=genomia.cz|access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref> In addition, a silver/ash colour, usually associated with the [[Weimaraner]] dog, is considered genetically possible but is yet to be recorded by the United Kingdom's Kennel Club.<ref name="colours2">{{cite web|url=http://www.thecockerspanielclub.co.uk/colours2.htm|title=Understanding Cocker Colours, Patterns and Markings Page 2|last=Davis|first=Jinty Gill|date=9 September 2000|publisher=The Cocker Spaniel Club|access-date=7 January 2010}}</ref> Of the roan varieties, lemon roan with a light brown pigmentation is the most recessive of all the roans.<ref name="colours3"/> Plain white Cockers are rarely born and not encouraged in the breed.<ref name="colours4"/>

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File:ECS Black.jpg|Solid black with acceptable amount of white on chest
File:Snowing Bella.JPG|Black and tan
File:Bild Braunschimmel.jpg|Liver Roan
File:Zahir the English Cocker Spaniel.jpg|Blue Roan and Tan
File:Frida della Kalesa standard cocker.jpg|Black and White
File:Gessa d'Aran Copo de Nieve- arancio roano- prop.Kalesa.jpg|Orange and white
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