I have a purebred yellow lab with championship bloodline, can I breed him with a purebred chocolate lab?

Answer 1

Nope because you don't know what you are doing. If you did, you wouldn't be asking this question here.

Not trying to be nasty, just factual.

Answer 2

Only a true breeder of Champions will have Labs with "Champship Bloodlines". If you bought your Lab from a successful show breeder, then they will want a say in how your dog is bred.

AFTER you do the necessary genetic health testing of course.

If you bought your Lab from a pet breeder whom does not show, but bragged on past champions somewhere down the pedigree, then I would suggest neutering your male. Such a breeder would be an irresponsible breeder. Such a breeder would not have provided you OFA or PennHip testing results on both parents when you bought your puppy. And such a breeder would leave you high and dry to ask breeding questions on a yahoo list.

Seriously, if you love your Lab and do not want to have to deal with the rather nasty side effects of breeding him (I wouldn't), I would have him neutered and simply love him forever :)

Once a bred male starts marking your house, humping your guests and starting fights with other male dogs, you will wish you had never flipped that hormonal switch.

Answer 3

Champion Bloodlines don't mean anything if you have not had your particular dog checked to make sure that:
a) they meet the breed standard
b) all health testing is done and no health defects can be passed on
c) you are thouroghly educated on gestation, whelping, and raising young puppies.

Make sure all of that is done, and then start thinking about breeding.
Also, look at petfinder and see how many homeless Labs there are and remember that a good chunk of any puppies you breed will likely end up homeless and possibly euthanized.

Answer 4

Just because your dog has champions in its bloodline or pedigree does not make your dog a champion or one that should be bred. First you should join a local lab breed club and learn about this breed, then start showing to where your dog earns a championship. When your breed club mentor says your dog would be a good dog to breed then you should proceed. Otherwise you should neuter the dog and not contribute to the over population of dogs in the United States and daily euthanization of these dogs.

Answer 5

You sure can- research the genetics behind it and make sure you're dog is healthy and hip checked... no point in breeding him if he is going to produce sick or problem puppies.
Labs are labs, but according to the genetics of coat colour, breeding a yellow lab to a chocolate lab will most likely produce chocolate pups with yellow pigment- see the following site for the genetics of coat colour:
http://www.blueknightlabs.com/color/coatcolor.html
As someone has already said, make sure there is a need for lab pups in your area before you breed them.
Good luck!

Answer 6

NO.

Yellow x Chocolate = Dudley's, poor pigmented Yellow labs. Dudleys have almost NO pigment, and of course, aren't of show or breeding quality. They usually have pink colored noses, NO black pigment at their eye rims.

In Labradors, you can breed Black x Black, Black x Chocolate, Chocolate x Chocolate, Black x Yellow, and Yellow x Yellow, but you cannot breed Yellow x Chocolate if you want a good pigmented dog. Pigment is part of the breed standard, and any breeder who does breed Choc x Yellow is obviously not very knowledgable in the breed.

Due to genetics- you CAN get all three colors in one breeding. Let's say mom was a Black, Dad was a Chocolate. Let's say Mom's parents (pups' grandparents) were Black & Yellow, and Dad's were Black and Chocolate. Then, genetics could throw back all three colors in a litter. However, you DO NOT BREED Yellow x Chocolate if you want good pigmented, perhaps show-quality, Yellows.

If your stud has his hips cleared (OFA or PennHIP) and his eyes (CERF) then I would look for a b-itch that is either Yellow, or Black. As I said above, through genetics, you could get Chocolates in a breeding that is not a Chocolate, but you don't want to breed a Choc. x Yellow.

Answer 7

if your lab is pure bred and the other is pure bred, then there is no problem...however, the only True Labrador Retriever is the black variety...the 'yellow' and 'chocolate' are variations of the original..like the LandSeer being a variation of the Newfoundland breed dog, but is classed as a Newfoundland dog. And just a note here, the Labrador Retriever originates from the Island of Newfoundland, once called the St. John's Water Dog...when Labrador became a part of Newfoundland, I guess they wanted the dog as their mascot.

Answer 8

You can breed him to any member of the canis familiaris or canis lupis family; from the tiniest of dogs to the largest, and every breed of wolf, too. The question is, do you have a good reason to do so?

Answer 9

A lab is a lab just make sure there is a market for your pups. I've never known even a yellow and yellow to only have the same color. There is even a chance you will get black pups too.

Answer 10

Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD. perhaps you should talk to the breeder you got your Lab from to see if it is in fact "breeding quality".