Hi!

In Labradors, if you breed.......

A black bitch to a black dog, will you get all black pups?
Yellow to yellow will you get all yellow pups?
Chocolate to chocolate will you get all chocolate pups?

Or does it depend? I have a Yellow Bitch and if I breed her to a chocolate dog what are the puppies going to be?

I have looked at a few sites about coat colours and genetics but Its too complecated for me to understand! (Im blonde)! if anyone can explain this to me simply i would be so grateful.

THANK YOU

Thank you!

NO NO NO, NEVER BREED CHOCOLATE TO YELLOW!!!!!!!
You will get pale pigment (on the chocs and yellows), pale eyes (on chocs and yellows)and pale noses on the yellows.
You are best using a black or yellow dog and you will then probably get black and yellow puppies. More importantly has your bitch been scored for hip dysplasia and tested for heriditary cataract (HC) and general progressive retinal atrophy? (PRA) Health is paramount.
Dawn.

This has interested me, sorry to butt in, so would chocolate labs have to mate with chocolate. How come in some litters there is one of each colour, and could to black labs have different colour pups or would they be black. If anyone could answer that would be great!!

I gather chocolate to black gives the best quality pigmentation in chocolates.
:)
Edit: I'm not sure how colour dominance works in labs....

i have a question. i know some labs have a white spot on their chest. if you breed two dogs without white spots on their chest will any of the puppys have white spots on their chest? it has never happened to me.

Black is dominant in Labradors. If you mate any colour to a black which does not carry a recessive for another colour you will get all blacks, but a proportion of those will be carriers for the other colours. In actual fact, very few blacks do NOT carry a recessive for another colour. A friend of mine who breeds working Labs told me that she was positive that there was no yellow in her line. Nothing had shown up for years. Then, in one litter she suddenly had 3 yellows!!!

As Jeangenie said, the best Chocolates tend to be from blacks carrying the choc gene.

As to white spots, if both sides carry the gene, even though neither dog has a spot, some puppies could be born with a spot. My old Lucy was what is now known as Fox Red and had a white spot even though neither sire or dam had one.

Interestingly, in their formative years there were many two colour Labs! So maybe it's a wonder there are not more which carry a spot!!

Regards, John

I have heard you shouldn't breed 2 chocolates like merles

Yes you can do choc to choc, but not consistently, the colour will become light and wishy washy, the eyes will get lighter.
Dawn.

So in all the colours is it best to breed,

Black+Black
Yellow+Yellow
Chocolate+Black
and Yellow+Black?

I think that's right, Cassie! The guest (whose question started this off) should mate her yellow bitch to either a black or a yellow dog.
:)