ANYONE KNOW COLORS OUTCOME - Page 2

OK, Thank you all for your expertise...

I wish I could post a picture of the pups but don't see an option to do that.

Well, if they're black and tans.. they are 90 % black so I'm also confused on what a bi color is?

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Do they have black on their toes and on the back of their hocks? How old are they? I have seen some dogs that don't lose the toemarks until around a year.

Christine

Rebecca if you want pm me the pictures I can help post then, very curiuse to see then...

Examples taken from google. (Please correct me if i'm wrong)

 Bi-color

 Bi-color

 B&T

 B&T

Black & Tan (Melanistic Black&Tan)......almost regularly mistaken for Bi-Color

 

 

Another picture of the above Black&Tan boy:

From what I have researched, I believe you are correct AnaSilva. Are bi-colors kinda rare? Also, if you breed two very dark sable German Shepherds, both carry the black recessive gene, what colors would you likely get in the litter? The dogs in their pedigrees are primarily sable and black with one black/tan in the past three generations. I figure mostly sable with a couple of blacks. Is this correct? The charts are confusing to me.

For what I know about, only IF the dogs carry the black gene will they have black puppies, and the only way you can try to know that, as someone said earlier, is by looking into their offspring… You can get an idea by looking and the ped, for example my Becky most likely carries the b&t gene and the sable, as sire is sable and dam b&t, but for her case they all both dominant genes, so they compete at a 50% 50% change. With the black, being it recessive the sable will most likely always show more than the black, only if both parents carry the black gene will be some black puppies in the litter… However, it's not like we can say it will be "x" number of puppies of one or the other color, because those chances are renewed with every individual puppy being created…

So yes, you can have some black puppies, but you can also have an all sable litter.
(Again, please someone correct me if I’m wrong)

From my understanding, sable is the most dominant color, so sable will always win. Black is recessive, so even if both parents carry it, it's only 25% of a chance the puppy will be black. I believe there are DNA testing to show what genes your dogs carry, and it's like $30.

Here's a link that I found educational.


http://www.jmadesign.com/Frankenhaus/colorgen01.shtml