Breeding Labrador Retrievers

[Cataholic]

First, those that know me on this board already know I am not a proponent of breeding, so, if we could move past that for a moment, and get to my question:


When one breeds labs, can any lab produce any colour? For instance, will two black labs produce other colours?

[critter crazy]

Well my firnds two yellow labs created a mix, of black and yellow. So I guess so!:D

[k9krazee]

Yes, as long as they have the other colors in thier genes.

[Husky_mom]

Yes, as long as they have the other colors in thier genes.

yup......

let´s say black dad had a yellow mom and a black dad, so black is dominant so he is black but has a recessive for yellow........so unless black mom has also a recessive yellow all pups will be black as both have dominat black which they pass on to the pups.......(correct me if i´m wrong)

maybe some genes can be there for years and pass after a long long time so sometimes is weird to see two blacks get a yellow pup when the parents of the parents were also black........

[Suki Wingy]

There is a thread in dog breeds called Albino Labs (or somthing similar) if you look somewhere on the first page, someone linked to a very good site that explains it all. :)

[Freedom]

It is like any other gene combination. For example in humans, blue eyes is not a dominant trait; it is a recessive trait. For a child to have blue eyes, both the mom and the dad must contribute the gene for blue eyes. If the mom and the dad are both blue eyed themseves, then the ONLY genes they have are blue. If the mom is brown eyed, she may have 2 brown eye genes, OR she may have one brown eye gene and one blue eye gene; and as brown is the dominant trait, the brown is the color of HER eyes. The blue eye gene is recessive and does not show. But she could pass a blue eye gene to a child of hers. If the dad also has brown eyes, but carries one of each gene, they the 2 brown eyed parents could have a blue eyed child. So yes, a pair of black labs could have a yellow lab pup.

[cali]

depends on the genes of the parents. Black is dominant, so if you breed 2 yellows, but one of the yellows carries black, you will get both black and yellow puppies. any breed works this way. for example, Happy's sire is red merle, because of that I know that Happy carries the red gene, even though she herself is black. however because red is recessive, if I wanted to breed her and I wanted reds, I would have to breed her to a dog that also carries red, if I bred her to a black that did not carrie red I would get either black or blue merle pups, but red would not be possable.