I've been told you shouln't breed these colours together, does anyone know why ?? as my yellow lab is giving birth in about 3 weeks and of course the male was chocolate.
2007-03-08 04:03:01 · 8 answers · asked by tesshoney 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
Bunts I'll save you one lol
2007-03-08 04:40:36 · update #1
To get a showable dog you shouldn't breed those two colours. To get a good friendly pet, it really doesn't matter.
2007-03-08 04:13:42 · answer #1 · answered by allyalexmch 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing to suggest that there are any health implications caused by breeding these colours together. However, breeding chocolate (liver) to a yellow can produce yellow puppies that lack the dark pigment that one would normally see around the eye rims, mouth and nose.
2007-03-08 21:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by Kennel Club Experts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presence of the recessive epistatic gene for yellow can cause coat dilution in the chocolates and light eye coloration, conversely, the presence of the recessive chocolate gene in yellows can cause pigmentation faults (chocolate or liver colored eye rim, lower lip, and nose pigment). Even when not breeding for chocolate, the combined presence of the recessive chocolate and recessive yellow in a black dog will result in a lighter eye color.
2007-03-08 04:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by DP 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
my sister bred her yellow lab with a chocolate lab and the pups were born at christmas. absolutely perfect pups, nothing wrong with the colour and no reason for them not to be mixed. she had 9 pups in total, 5 yellows and 4 chocs :)
2007-03-11 12:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by carley s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were interested in producing good quality puppies, you would have researched this before embarking on breeding. This site explains the genetics. If you have chosen the parents wrongly, you will get badly pigmented wishy washy chocolates. Hopefully, you have been more careful about using dogs who have had all the necessary health checks.
http://livingwaterslabradors.net/color.html
2007-03-08 04:14:29 · answer #5 · answered by anwen55 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have had yellow labs, chocolate labs, and black labs. I wouldn't rate one above the other.
But a Lab is a Lab is a Lab.
I don't know of a better all-round dog.
Put me down for a pup!
2007-03-08 04:35:44 · answer #6 · answered by Bunts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmnm, well I have a yellow lab who is just the best dog in the world!! But as far as mixing, I am not sure, I hope they are all right....I would love to know how they turn out!
2007-03-08 05:16:46 · answer #7 · answered by Red0427 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot depends on the genetics of the parents of the pair you are considering mating....how many recessive genes are the mating pair passing on?
2007-03-08 04:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by W. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋