I have a female blond lab. What color male should I breed her with to get all 3 colors in the litter?

Question

My dog was born in a litter with all 3 colors. (3 blonds, 3 chocolates, & 2 black) Her mom was blond with both her parents blond. My dog's father was black - not sure about his parents. I have the option of breeding her with a black who has never fathered a litter. He has 1 parent black the other brown, a blond - don't know parentage but has fathered a rainbow litter w/ my dog'a littermate, and a brown who has fatherd all chocolates & blacks. Does anyone have any suggestions?

First off thanks for all the advice. Sorry to have insulted some with the blond comment. That is how they are often referd to where I live. I need to clarify that I do not reside in the US. I live in the Caribbean on a peninsula where several people own tourism relatred businesses. I have had several requests for puppies (if I decide to breed her) from people that are known to be good pet owners and wish to have a larger dog that can be at their resort or business. Dogs that will be friendly but may help to deter petty theft, which can be a problem from time to time. So I am not breeding her jsut to do it and there is very little chance that any of her puppies would end up in a neglegent home.

Her parents are both papered, she is not. She is a wonderful family member. I would still appreciate any other feed back so please keep it coming.

Answer 1

First your dog is not blonde, its yellow, golden, sage, or ivory. Second your dog is not a champion show animal and hasnt been proven in any manner, whether in the show ring or in hunting or agility. Its a pet not a breeding animal. If you dont know the pedigree or lineage of any of the parents you should never ever breed these dogs. I doubt you had them checked for any genetic defects are merely are breeding them because they are lab. You also doing a dis-favor to the Labrador breed by breeding 2 un-proven animals together, in-experianced breeders breeding in-experianced dogs together can and do ruin perfectly good dogs.
At this moment we have 45 lab and lab mixes in our shelter right now. 10 of them have AKC registrations and they are yellow, black, chocolate, and the new "fake" retro red. Not to mention the various cross colors.
To answer your question When you dont know a lineage of a dog you can get anything with breeding. Your dog being yellow and the other dog black you will get a mixture of both or sometimes depending what the grandsires are you can get only black or only yellow. If you want a chocolate, one of the parents grandparents need to have been a chocolate.
Just dont do it please there are enough labs out in the world.

Answer 2

First of all (I'm not being an A$$), you have a Yellow lab, not a blond lab. Only three colors recognized by AKC. Black, Chocolate, and Yellow. Any other description is purely the irresponsible breeders attempt to make his or her pups seem "special" and thus more likely to sell. Other examples of non-colors are Fox Red or Silver.
Color genetics in labs is very complicated and is next to impossible to predict unless you have very accurate pedigrees with colors. Even then its sometimes a crapshoot. Bottomline, Black is dominant, Yellow is recessive, and Chocolate is incomplete recessive.
In your dogs case, the sire and dam carried the incomplete recessive gene for chocolate in order for them to have produced choc pups. You would most likely have to find a black sire who throws chocolate, or breed to a pure for chocolate male in order to get a 3 color litter.
Go to LRC.com, the national website for the Labrador Retriever Club. There should be some helpful info there.
BEFORE you breed to any dog, make sure both are registered with the AKC, both are OFA certified (good or better hips), eyes have been CERF certified, and screened for CNM (central nuclear myopathy).
If you can't do the above, consider leaving the breeding to those breeders who do so that the integrity of the breed doesn't suffer.
Good luck to you, but remember, don't just make puppies because you can. Be responsible with our breed.

Answer 3

First off the term is yellow not blonde. Your dog is probably yellow dominant with black and chocolate as secondaries. You should mate him with a black who is byc black, yellow , chocolate. Stay away from chocolate dominant dogs. This may give you pink noses (bad markings). A yellow with byc will still give you dominant yellow. There is a collar dominance chart on line but you need to know your dogs genetic code to make it work properly. Its always a crap shoot with labs. If you need more information check my website at burdicklabradors.com.

Answer 4

If you don't know the dogs you want to breed are carriers of the recessive traits in color of the dog's coat there's not much of a way to tell. Especially if the male's never fathered a litter.

Answer 5

Genetics is not a definite thing. She's a yellow lab, so you'd probably want to breed her with a black or chocolate. But, you could have any combination.

Answer 6

Sorry to be such a downer but shelters are putting dogs down every day. I have two wonderful shelter rescue dogs, one a black lab, and I love them both without limits. Please have your lab spayed and encourage your friends and family to adopt from shelters or local rescue organizations. If you absolutely must breed her, please contact the American Kennel Club to make sure you're getting the best advice possible so you end up with what you want.

Answer 7

I'm sorry, but I agree with the first answer. You don't seem to know a lot, or not enough, about dogs; and from what I've heard, labs are overbred, etc.

Answer 8

Labrador Retriever color genetics is very weird. I studied it, but I don't remember exactly how it works. You might look into your dog's pedigree.

Answer 9

breed her with the black the black was the first of its breed all the other colors came from him selective breeding

Answer 10

you shouldn't be breeding labs if you refer to yellow as blonde.