Dominant color?

[coco-bean]

I've always pretty much figured black was the dominant color, but im curious as to what color puppies take after? the color of the mom or the color of the dad! coco's mom was chocolate and her dad was yellow...all her brothers and sisters ended up black! cainan was black for both and corona was yellow for both, but what if coco's parents roles where switched and the dad was chocolate and the mom was yellow? what color would they have been instead? still black or what color do you think would have come out of them? i guess the color thing kinda has been wondering, thanks in advance

[borzoimom]

In Borzois, white is dominant. They wanted a dog to blend in with the Russian weather of mostly snow.. Self colors like black, are also finer in bone than the whites generally.. I know of a few that are not- but they are the exception, and not the rule in this breed..

[applesmom]

coco-bean, this website should answer most of your questions.

Coat color inheritance in the Labrador Retriever

[CaneCorso]

I would consider black color for lab is dominant; however, black german shepherd is considered recessive. Black is not always dominant in every breed, just some.

A really good article here for labs only

http://www.oakhillkennel.com/library/color.html

This is another article that is good too. It is more complex than above link

http://bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/Genetics.html

[wolfsoul]

It depends on the breed and the genes involved. In Belgians, black is generally dominant. However there is a recessive black gene as well that is less common.

[tikeyas_mom]

Well when Ebony (black lab) and Max (shephard/lab) had puppies two of them were black, three were tricolored, one was sabel, one was chocolate, one was chocolate and tan... So I really have a hard time believing that Black is dominant lol

[BC_MoM]

what color puppies take after? the color of the mom or the color of the dad!

It depends which dog had the dominant gene. In grade 9 and 12 you will study genes ~ they're super interesting!