I have puppies!!

[snugglepup]

Hmm... are you sure she was bred to a yellow male(and only a yellow male)? From a genetic standpoint that should be pretty durn impossible. In labradors, the yellow coat color is recessive.

There are 2 basic genes that affect coat color in Labs. The first gene determines if the pup is Black or Chocolate (BB or Bb = Black, bb = chocolate). There is a second gene that determines yellow vs non-yellow (ee = yellow, Ee or EE = Chocolate or Black). So in order to be yellow, your dog has to be either Bbee or BBee... and therefore can only pass on yellow alleles. In order for her to have puppies that express chocolate (bbEe), she would have to be bred to a chocolate male or a black male carrying a chocolate recessive.

Bottom line, yellow bred to yellow should produce all yellow puppies. So I'm afraid if she were my dog, and I had paid for a yellow stud... I'd be requesting a DNA test.

On the nose theory, a yellow lab with a brown nose and light eyes is called a dudley. These dogs are homozygous recessive for both genes (bbee), and is undesirable according to the breed standard.

 

[CrowinKing]

Ya he was yellow my neighbor has him and he is a Fox line yellow male! He is AKC registered so I can send for the background papers mine is ACA registered!!! ACA will honor AKC registration but AKC will not honor ACA registration. I don't know the whole standard thing because I don't show mine there just bred for family's not the ring!!

 

[lilcountry]

Wasn't her female chocolate though? I know a couple with both AKA registered or the other one not sure and the male was chocolate and the female black and Im pretty sure all the puppies were chocolate. I have a yellow and a black lab, both males, both fixed.

 

[sheps4her]

:| puppies are always so cute but...... I can't help but to be a little sensitive this time a year about breeding without trying to breed for the improvement of that breed, which is why there is a standard to follow. I work in a large shelter and people bring in puppies by the truckloads for us to find homes for. All kinds, shepherd mixes, lab mixes, and litters of purebreds. Rows upon rows of those cute faces. Hopefully, these cuties will go to responsible homes that will love and care for them, and have them fixed so they will not add to the overpopulation problem. No one ever believes that the litters they produce will wind up in shelters, and they may not. But what about their offspring? And their offsprings offspring? The line just keeps on going.

ok. Getting down off my soapbox!

 

[equine chick]

I think there are no puppies cuter than a choc lab pup which is probally why I have 3 of them.

 

[rooster0209]

your puppies are adorable. I wish you could email puppy breath,

I must ask, please reconsider before breeding her again. There are thousands of homeless labs and lab crosses in shelters everywhere. They are all standing there waiting for forever homes. Around here, the shelters are absolutely full with labs of all colors. Take a tour of your local shelters and you will see what I mean or even check out petfinder.com.

I adopted a lab/border collie cross. He was dropped off at the shelter at 12wks old, because he was scared of guns (border collie trait). He spent the next year and half waiting for me. .