What Color would you get..... - Page 1

If you bred a white GSD to a normal colored GSD with no white in it's background.

I had someone with a White GSD ask me this, and I do not know the answer.....

BTW, I do not believe that this person is breeding, I think that they were just curious. 

Hi Dog Trainer,

 I know someone who did, the whole litter was Black & tan, they were abit washed out in color,

the mom was 100% white and the dad was 100% pure black.....

If the normal-colored GSD carried the recessive white gene, then in theory half the pups would be white and half "normal" colors.

If the normal-colored dog did not carry the recessive white gene, NONE of the pups would be white. All of them would be carriers.

Keep in mind that white is not a color---it is a masking gene. A white GSD could genetically be sable, blk/tan, bicolor or black:)

Mary

what mary said :)

The dilution is caused at the Intensity Locus...if a White carrying the dominant allele was bred to a red saddle back (recessive for the Intensity Locus) or a tan saddle back (middle allele at intensity) it would dilute the color of the pups...since the lighter color is dominant...but that has nothing to do with the white coat itself...just what it is masking.

~Cate

http://hauspharao.com/breeding/colorgenetics.html