White few to no ticked/roan

It has often been said that the ACD only come in two colors --- ticked-black/tan or red.  With the help of DNA testing, this has now proven to be untrue.   An ACD may also be brown, called "chocolate", red (non-extension, e/e, red, instead of sable red) or white.   Brown, red and white are not common colors.  The reason these colors are not seen very often is because they are not actively being bred for, when produced - are not advertised for fear of reprisal from other breeders and some puppies are actually put to sleep if they are any color other than that of the breed standard.

This is a puppy, of known lineage, that was whelped from "normal" colored parents.  The sire was a shaded sable red (meaning he has some black hairs on his back due to having one ticked-black/tan parent and is a carrier for tan point) and the dam was a typical ticked-black ACD.

As with all puppies that are born with little or no pigment around/over the ears, there is a possibility of deafness.  Deafness is caused by the lack of pigment deep into the ear canal.  The silia, responsible for vibrating and catching sound waves, die.

Her tan points starting coming in as spots at 8 weeks old.  They are still light in color.  These are tan points like a standard colored ticked-black/tan ACD would have.   They are very mottled, instead of more solid colored.

All ACD's are born white, with the exception of facial markings or
body spots, and start to color out at about 3 weeks of age.  Their
skin pigmentation is dark, having a black nose, lips and eye rims.

This puppy was born white, but had pink skin pigmentation --
indicating she would remain white (not color out).