silver labradors

If you are a Dilute Labrador Breeder, you will find the following information very informative and helpful, in determining what colors you can produce, by crossing certain dogs that carry specific color genetics. We have developed this page, for you to use as a tool, to help you with understanding color genetics. We have done the work for you, and this page and information is offered to you free, for your use. Feel free to use it for your own personal use and print it out as you need it. We are happy to provide this for you, in what we feel to be a very easy and understandable explaination. We feel that it will be a great aid to you as a breeder.

These pages are a guide for determining what coat colors you can expect to get from a specific breeding. Whether you are interested in breeding your Black Lab or your Silver Lab, you may click on the breeding you are interested in, and the result page will load for you. We hope you find these pages useful.

Black Breedings

Charcoal Breedings

Chocolate Breedings

Silver Breedings

Yellow Breedings

Champagne Breedings

With these great pages that we have developed, there is no more guess work and no more experiemental breedings to determine what color puppies you will get.

Please be patient, these pages take a lot of work to produce, so some pages are still under construction and it will take us some time to complete them. More pages are being added every day.

Genetic Code Explaination:

B = black
b = chocolate
E = ability to express pigment or coat color
e = ability to express dark pigment
D = dilute gene not turned on
d = ability to express dilution
dd = dilute

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BB = black Lab, no chocolate gene
Bb = black Lab, carries chocolate gene
bb = chocolate Lab, no black gene

Yellow is produced by the presence of a recessive epistatic gene which masks the black or chocolate genes.
EE = no yellow gene
Ee = yellow carrier but apears either black or chocolate
ee = yellow

Dilute gene:
DD = does not carry the gene for dilution
Dd = carries the dilute gene, is dilute factored
dd = carries double dilution gene, is dilute

Interpreting the genetic codes:

BLACK and CHARCOAL
EEBBDD = Dominant Black Dominant, (carries no other colors, can produce only Black)
EEBBDd = Dominant Black, carries Dilute, still dominant for Black/Charcoal
EEBBdd = Basic Charcoal, dominant for Black/Charcoal
EEBbDD = Black that carries Chocolate
EEBbDd = Black that carries Chocolate and Dilute
EEBbdd = Charcoal that carries Chocolate
EeBBDD = Black that carries Yellow
EeBBDd = Black that carries Yellow and Dilute
EeBBdd = Charcoal that carries Yellow
EeBbDD = Black that carries Yellow and Chocolate
EeBbDd = Black that carries Yellow, Chocolate and Dilute
EeBbdd = Charcoal that carries Yellow and Chocolate

YELLOW and CHAMPAGNE
eeBBDD = Yellow (does not carry Chocolate)
eeBBDd = Yellow, carries Dilute (does not carry Chocolate)
eeBBdd = Champagne, (does not carry Chocolate)
eeBbDD =Yellow that carries Chocolate
eeBbDd = Yellow that carries Chocolate and Dilute
eeBbdd = Champagne that carries Chocolate
---NBP means that the dog has no black pigment, it has chocolate pigment---
eebbDD = Yellow (with chocolate pigment---NBP), carries Chocolate
eebbDd = Yellow (with chocolate pigment-NBP), carries Chocolate, carries Dilute
eebbdd = Champagne (with chocolate pigment-NBP) carries Chocolate

CHOCOLATE and SILVER
EEbbDD = Chocolate, (does not carry yellow)
EEbbDd = Chocolate, carries Dilute, (does not carry yellow)
EEbbdd = Silver, (does not carry yellow)
EebbDD = Chocolate that carries Yellow
EebbDd = Chocoalte that carries Yellow and Dilute
Eebbdd = Silver that carries Yellow

Here are some tips to remember that will help and make it easier for you to understand. In the genetic color code for the Lab there are three different letters----the E, the B and the D, each is an allele, the E allele, the B allele and the D allele. They can be written as either a capital letter or a lowercase letter, each representing a different color code combination for coat color. Here are some easy ways to remember what some of the codes mean:
the B in the code is for brown (or chocolate), in the sense that if you see one lower case b in the code, this means that there is a brown gene involved. If it is one lowercase b in the code (Bb), the dog carries the brown (chocolate) gene but if there are two lowercase b's, (bb) then the dog is of the brown (chocolate) coat color. If there are only uppercase B's then there is no brown in the color code and the dog is not brown and does not carry the brown gene. Another thing to remember is that if the code has a capital B and a capital E in it, then the dogs coat color is Black. The last thing is that if the color code contains one lowercase e (Ee), then the dog carries the yellow gene, if there are two lowercase e's (ee), in the code, then the dogs coat color is yellow. We hope this helps make it easier for you to understand.