Cream coloured coats appear on the Working Kelpie. It is extremely rare to see a cream coloured Australian Kelpie, but they do exist.

Genetically the colour is a recessive red and belong to the colour series E locus. The E gene decides what area of the coat may produce eumelanin. The color is genetically the same as in the yellow labrador retriever or in the golden retriever.

This gene in its dominant form is either EE or Ee and the dog is normally pigmented. The recessive form of the gene is ee and it prevents the eumelanin production in the skin cell and so normally pigmented strands of hair also lack eumelanin. The dog then has a yellow or red coat, while the nose, claws, pads, edge of the eye lids and lips has the colour of the eumelanin.