German Wirehaired Pointer Club of America

[grouse]

I have a young famale who is doing great on her hunting training but my question is when I registered her with the akc I wasn't shure what to put as color after sending pictures of her to the akc they told me she was roan which is a color on the registration and they asured me it was perfectly acceptable whith the breed standard my question is since I have had her I have only seen one other like her how raire is this color or how desirable

[dualgwp]

Roan as a color is perfectly acceptable and there are a lot of roan dogs.

Roan is basically a solid colored dog with white guard hairs running through the coat.

Ticked is a mix of white and liver hairs (or black) that is roughly 50% of each color. A ticked dog looks sort of "spotted".

It's sometimes difficult to tell when they are very little what color they will end up being. Wires are born pretty white (except for the solid livers) and then darken as they age.

Have fun with you puppy! They grow up too fast.