Walter, from what I have noticed, the darker the parents, the darker the offspring. Dark black sables almost always have a black recessive allele/gene.
Quote: Joy van Veen
If the sable parent is heterozygous sable (one dominant sable allele and one other allele) then:
Each pup has a 75% chance of being phenotypically sable (a sable pup). 25% chance of being homozygous sable and 50% chance of being heterozygous sable (carrying a recessive of another pattern). And a 25% chance of being whatever pattern the sable parent carried for the recessive allele.
Actually, a heterozygous sable bred to a black will produce 50% heterozygous sables and 50% black or bi (depending on which of the two patterns the sable parent carried for the recessive allele)
michele--just did a simple Mendalian cross of sable (S) x black (b). with the sable being hetero (Sb). just cause i'm bored and will be snowed in for the next 2 days at least. agree with your projections.
to OP: keep in mind that just because overall stats say this should be the result, doesn't mean that any given litter will conform to them; the stats were generated from hundreds of breedings and thousands of offspring--and hundreds of species to boot.
so,over time, what michele posted would be statistically correct, but for an individual litter may not be precisely what's produced.
my personal opinion: the color you prefer turns out to be the color of the dog you own that DOES WHAT IT IS BRED TO DO.
Bob- totally right. ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL...pick the color you like. How else are you supposed to decide between two equally great adorable puppies? You could always do the old "stick em in a dark box, put your hand in there and pull one out." :-)
Ann- also true! "The color you prefer turns out to be the color of the dog you own..."
Walter, trust me on this one. When you pick up that pup, wherever you pick it up from, airport, breeder's house, whatever...the last thing you are going to think of is "gee, I wish he/she were a different color." Unless you are totally heartless and unaffected by an adorable 8wk old ball of fur.
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Walter, while color isn't unimportant from an aesthetics point of view, as others have said, it is unimportant (except for conformation disqualifications) when it comes to picking the right dog.
Now, if the breeder should tell you that s/he has two pups either of which would be a good match for you and one of them happens to be the dark sable color you prefer, then absolutely make your final choice based on the color. But, otherwise, forget color. I can tell you from experience that once you have your pup its color will be the last thing on your mind.
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Re: Black + Sable = Black Sable??
[Re: Joy van Veen ]
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