Posted: 8/7/2006 3:40:11 AM EDT
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A co-worker recently gave me a 6 month old, pure bred black lab (for free) because his pregnant wife is not able to handle a full size dog. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this dog. -already house broken -listens very well -plays great with my 3yr old son and my 8mo old chiuaua -so far an excellent guard dog (has alerted me several times to noises outside by simply growling) you get the idea, so far she is a great dog. So today the guy who gave her to me tells me that he wished he had taken the chocolate lab that was part of the same litter. I was like, "what?"  Black labs don't have chocolate labs. He said "sure they do, there was also two yellow labs in the litter"We got into a small "disagreement" about this. Of course I was unable to find this info on the web. So I'm asking here to see what the deal is. Can two black labs have yellow and/or chocolate lab pups or is only yellow from yellow, black from black etc? Dog breeders what do you say? curious minds want to know Thanks, Gene |
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A litter between two black labs can produce a litter of black lab pups, yellow lab pubs and chocolate lab pups. Black is the dominate gene, while yellow is the recesive, chocolate is the co-dominate. Two yellow lab will only produce yellow lab pups, two black labs with all dominate genes (BB) will only produce black lab pups, but if they have a recieve gene (By) then they could produce a yellow lab. No different than human hair color. |
AND, Ironically, the original poster's name is Gene ! 
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