Thursday, January 17, 2013

Silver Labrador Breeders Are Breeding A New Hybrid Shade Variation

By Chandra Zane


Lovers of Labs have a new color to choose from in puppies. In addition to the standard colors: of black, yellow and chocolate, there is a new silvery color. Visibly it is more like a chocolate with a silvery overlay. Silver Labrador breeders are breeding silver labs and charcoal lab puppies for sale.

The American Kennel Club registers this tone as a chocolate variation. This is a logical acceptance since such a color is not an unusual variant of brown. For instance, the American Chesapeake Bay Retriever also has a silvered brown tone. The LRC accepts different shade variations in the chocolate standard labs, as it does in the standard yellow labs.

The original ancestral source of this canine is a dog that was first bred in the island of Newfoundland in Canada. This was the St. Johns water dog, a working dog whose bloodline is not specifically known. But it is understood that it emerged from some medley of Irish, English and Portuguese working varieties.

This species arrived in the United States from Great Britain. Its lineage can be tracked to early breeding programs set up by the Dukes of Buccleuch and the Earls of Malmesbury. These British lords were influential in establishing and developing the species in the 19th century.

Black was the first documented shade. It was also the sole accepted shade. A yellow strain had turned up in its Canadian founding breed, it was not an accepted variant in the early period. As a result, yellow variants in a littler were often eliminated. But as it kept turning up, since it is a recessive tone, there was eventual acceptance.

Like the yellow Lab, the chocolate appeared in early breeding programs as an off color and was often culled. Eventually this shade was accepted by the British and the American Kennel Clubs and registered by them. In 1892 the first two recorded dogs of this type were born.

Observers have pointed out that it is easily seen that the modern bloodlines of this breed are splitting and becoming diverse. There appears to be distinct difference between the field trial lines and the show lines. Hence, differences in color caused by genes which have produced the silver, should not be unexpected.

It is expected by Silver Labrador breeders that in time the tone will become accepted on its own. But whether this transpires or not, you can be the proud owner of your very own silver lab today. The color variation is natural and beneath the difference lies a shared distinctive nature of this species. It is this nature which has won it the popularity contest among registered breeds in New Zealand, America, Canada, and the United Kingdom.




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