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Chocolate labrador genetics question?

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1.2K views 10 replies 8 participants last post by  sigep538  
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Has anyone heard of any bad genetic traits to the puppies when you bread a chocolate Labrador with a chocolate Labrador?
 
#3 ·
Bad Genetic Traits are not tied to a Color, or a breed. They are tied to the bloodline or Gene's themselves. You can have Bad Genetic Traits when breeding Black to Black or any other combination that you could think of.

This is why researching blooline and Traits are so important when breeding, and is the part that is left out in buying Backyard bred pups. All that is usually required for the Backyard breeders is convenience. AKC Full Blood that lives across the street, my hunting buddy has one, a guy at work, etc.. etc., etc., This is where problems usually start. Your normal hunting dog owner doesn't do the OFA's Hip X-rays, Eye Cerf's, Elbow, X-rays or CNM Test. This would tell them of any existing problems that their dog may be infected with, or a carrier of. These test cost severl hundred dollars, so are passed on because their dog seems to be Ok. Most Carriers of trait defects show no signs, but when bred with a female or male that is a Carrier also, Infects the whole litter, and then the trouble starts.

The responds is: My Dog don't have that, but in reality, usually both the Male & Female has it, they are just carriers, and will not show unless tested. But now they have produced a Fully Infected Litter, and any dog Clear, Carrier, or Infected dog they are bred to will produce infected litter.

But to you question. The color alone has not effect on the gene or triats of the puppies. It is deeper than color. cooter
 
#5 ·
OK...I am not saying this is true first of all just a little hear say that you may have heard and why you ask.

This weekend someone told me that if you continue to breed a choc to choc and get a choc and then breed that choc to choc you can ended up not having as good of coat color.......just hear say not sure if there is any truth to that.
I've heard it said about the yellows to. They say somewhere you have to put the black back into it and just use a tri or what ever color factored dog you're trying to achive...
Anyone else know if there is truth to this?
 
#6 ·
Its true. Thats where chocs came from. They keep breeding black dogs over and over and they keep getting lighter and lighter until they had first chocolates and then yellows. Just kidding. I would depend on the color traits passed on through the parents. If you bred dark choc x dark choc then you are likly to get dark choc.

The reason a black x choc breeding is recommended is that the gene pool available within the choc linage is quite a bit smaller than whats available with the black dogs. They do it to infuse a larger genetic diversity into the choc line
 
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luvnlabs said:
Must be why all the people think if you breed a yellow to a black you get chocolate :rofl:
Now,,, that there is some funny stuff, and I don't care who ya' are !,,, :grooving: ,,, :stouff:
:crazy2:
Larry the Cable Guy...
 
#11 ·
from what I remember from class Choc and yellows are genitic recissive traits. this means that a lab is Black but geniticly it can be black/black, black/yellow or black/cho. to exprese the recesive trait the dog must be homogenous recesive yellow or cho. It has been a few years since that class so correct me if I am wrong. think of like eye color two people with recesive blue eyes dont have blind kids do they?