Color Genetics

I am starting this topic to see who here has color genetics info for our breed.. color genetics has been something that i have always been facinated with and i was learning quite a bit a few years back when i was playing a dog game .. yes a dog game lol we used color genetics for the dogs so that pups would come out with proper true life colors for their breeds. so some one didn't breed black to fawn and get merle ha ha...

anyway there are so many color combos for this breed and i think it would make a great topic of discussion and we can all get a bit of learning in about colors and what is inherted and what is carried and what is not, ect and so on.

thanks to all that are willing to participate in this discussion.

mindovermatter wrote:

I am starting this topic to see who here has color genetics info for our breed.. color genetics has been something that i have always been facinated with and i was learning quite a bit a few years back when i was playing a dog game .. yes a dog game lol we used color genetics for the dogs so that pups would come out with proper true life colors for their breeds. so some one didn't breed black to fawn and get merle ha ha...

anyway there are so many color combos for this breed and i think it would make a great topic of discussion and we can all get a bit of learning in about colors and what is inherted and what is carried and what is not, ect and so on.

thanks to all that are willing to participate in this discussion.

I'm a little lost on what you are looking for...I think.

I'm still a little confused but I'll give it a try lol.

Boudreaux is white with brown on half of his face and brown on the base of his tail. Ladie was pretty much all black with white feet, white on her chest and stomach and white in the middle of her face. All of their pups came out with white as the dominant color. White w/black on two of them, white w/ fawn w/blk ticked mask on one, and the others are white w/brown.

Boudreaux X Sadie.. Sadie is red/buck skin with a black mask and a tad bit of white on her chest and toes. I had two white w/brown pups, and one fawn buckskin pup w/a black mask and a little white on his chest.

Yea I'm pretty confused, but figure this one out.

But I was pretty shocked with this one, at first.....I do have blue lined dogs afterall.

Bred a black brindle male, and a black brindle female, came out with 2 brindle pups w/ white chests just almost identical to their parents. And I got this lil male out of the deal too.


The Dam

The sire

Makes a Blue Brindle Taz

Blue is just a dilute of black anyways so it's possible. Blue APBTs used to be a rare thing and alot of old timers would cull the pups because they thought there was something wrong with em'. Then the blue craze caught on and the once rare color was popping up everywhere and now people can get 3xs as much for a blue pup as they could for a brindle/red/or white pup in the same litter.

Well, I am not really a breeder, but my dogs harley and princess had a litter before I was able to get her fixed. Harley as you all know is Brindle with a white patch on his chest, and princess was a redish color (boxer/bulldog mix) with black mask. She had 8 pups, one twin to harley, another brindle, one like her color, and the other five looked like my sasha (harley's sister).

Harley and Sasha's mom was a white pit with light brindle patches, their dad was a redish/fawn boxer. Out of 11 pups, harley was the only one with full brindle (except white chest), two had brindle patches on the body, the other eight puppies looked like sasha just the white on the faces was in different shapes or eye patches of white. Oh, ALL pups had white tips on their tails! Harleys disapeared as he grew up, but sasha still has hers!!

Dunlap wrote:

Blue is just a dilute of black anyways so it's possible. Blue APBTs used to be a rare thing and alot of old timers would cull the pups because they thought there was something wrong with em'. Then the blue craze caught on and the once rare color was popping up everywhere and now people can get 3xs as much for a blue pup as they could for a brindle/red/or white pup in the same litter.

Yep. But to people that don't know that bit of information, it shocks them everytime. The possiblities of this litter were, Blue, Buckskin, Red, Brindle, Black. The lineage is what the colors depend on. I'm never surprised with a blue puppy, but was a little taken back when he was born.

I don't personaly have a probem with a blue dog say in 1 out of a 1000 its when you have 10 blue dogs out of 11 that shows your breeding for color alone

marty wrote:

I don't personaly have a probem with a blue dog say in 1 out of a 1000 its when you have 10 blue dogs out of 11 that shows your breeding for color alone

exactly.

I'd like to own a good little blue dog but I havent found one worth getting yet. But then again, I'm pretty satisfied with what I've got right now and not really looking to buy so... It's just crazy how people ask so much money for them based on their color...