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Harlee

I'm waiting for litter of Labs to be born.. colors?

The mother is white and the father is black. I'm hoping for a chocolate female out of the litter, but i'm just curious how likely it is to end up with a chocolate puppy from white and black parents.


Asked by Harlee on Jul 21st 2011 Tagged color, labrador, puppies in Other Puppies
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Toto, CD, RN, CGC

First of all there is no such color as a "white" labrador. Labs come in three colors, black, chocolate and yellow. Yellow can have lighter shades or darker shades but it is still yellow, not white.
Chocolate is a recessive gene so both parents will have to carry the gene in order for there to be chocolates in the litter. A breeder who knows what they are breeding will know IF the parents carry chocolate, or will have had DNA testing done to determine what the parents carry for colors, however responsible breeders do not normally breed with yellow when looking for chocolate as the yellows produced will likely have pick noses and eye rims and excessive light colored eyes, none of which is accepted in the breed standard.
Since a breeder's first plan in breeding should be to do no harm, any breeder caring about the future of the Labrador retriever breed will keep yellow away from chocolate when breeding..


Toto, CD, RN, CGC answered on 7/21/11. Helpful? Yes/Helpful: No 3 Report this answer


Bruno

Toto is right. You're unlikely to get a chocolate from this mating, because even if both parents carry it, only a quarter of the pups would end up showing chocolate color. And it's likely some of those pups would be yellows, with chocolate noses instead of solid chocolate.

Here are pages about color inheritance in Labs, if you want to know more about how it works.
If you already have some basic knowledge of genetics:
www.blueknightlabs.com
If you need explained what "dominant" "recessive" "carrier" "allele" "phenotype" etc mean, then read this one, which is more detailed:
www.oakhillkennel.com


Bruno answered on 7/21/11. Helpful? Yes/Helpful: No 0 Report this answer


Cookies 'n' Creme (1998-2011)

Oh, I apologize. I thought you were breeding them, but from the last question it's clear that you're not. xD Sorry about that. ^^;


Cookies 'n' Creme (1998-2011) answered on 7/21/11. Helpful? Yes/Helpful: No 0 Report this answer


Faith (CGC)

To the above answerers...the person who posted this quuestion did not breed the labs herself, she is just waiting for a litter to be born.

I would suggest that you ask the breeders of the dogs. They might know more about the parentage of the dogs and you may be able to research their pedigrees online if they are registered.


Faith (CGC) answered on 7/26/11. Helpful? Yes/Helpful: No 0 Report this answer


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