what colours will my pups be - Page 1

I bred my bicolour female to a black and tan male, can I expect any other colours than bicolour or B/T, grandparents are sable, black and one B/T

Good morning, Duke! How are you doing today?

good thank you

Well, we would need to know what color the b&t parents were/are. .

mummy
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=1952890-kerry-cita-van-de-duca-vallei


daddy
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=636424-extra-gila-van-de-duca-vallei

They won't be sable. Could be black, bi , or b/t.

thanks joan, wasnt expecting Black to be an option LOL

Don't think you can 'expect' anything other than the B&T variations; odds are that even though a black or two are possible, they won't show up in one litter. Repeat that mating, and who knows, maybe sometime down the line. (You may get some that look very, very dark, early on !)

Why do you not think black is an option, duke? You said a grand parent was black. Unless you know there are not any black recessive in any of the others in the breeding, blacks are cpossible.

As for not getting any until the breeding is repeated doesn't make sense to me.
I bred two sables together, first and only litter, and got three out of seven pups solid/self black. The closest black dog on the male side was three generations back.
On the female, she was GSL on top of her sire, so no blacks. And on her mother's side, I don't know where the black is, can't see it in her ped, but it certainly is there somewhere....just not real close, maybe third or fourth gen.

So from experience, I would not say 'no black pups in this litter are possible'.
After all, getting a black pup is not the same as getting a sable, where at least one parent of the litter must be sable.

Good luck with your litter, and hope you have a happy, prosperous New Year.

Joanro, can you provide the pedigree of at least one of those three black pups?

Just curious...