Thursday, October 31, 2013

Silver Lab Puppies For Sale Are Winning Hearts

By Marsha Klein


The Silver Lab puppies for sale are winning hearts, just like Labs in the typical shades. After all, there is a reason why the breed has top the annual American Kennel Club list once again-22 years in a row. For people looking for this rarer shade, breeding programs are dedicated to replicating it to meet customer demands.

Although the color tone is termed silver, a closer description is a chocolate with silvery highlighting. The American Kennel Club registers this shade as part of the chocolate assortment. The Club registers dilute colored Labs under their foundation colors. There is some debate whether a Weimaraner ancestor is creating this uncommon shade. Certainly, the Labrador bloodline has had different breeds added into it in the past. But, it is more likely a variant of chocolate. A related retrieving species developed in America has a shade like this as a variant of brown.

This American relation is the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, originally bred in Maryland. A silvery brown shade exists in this retriever. Chesapeakes have been developed from domestic retriever breeds and 2 Newfoundlands. They were actually bred in America during the period the English were breeding Labradors from their own breeding stock of Newfoundlands. The domestic retrievers mixed in the American breed were the Curly and Flat Coated Retrievers and the English Otter Hound. The Chesapeake has also entered the Labrador bloodline . Records indicate at least two Chesapeake ancestors of present day Labradors.

Keen observers have noted that Labrador bloodlines have been diversifying. They have pointed to the obvious discrepancies amongst the field trial and show lines. While some people reject this color as a variant of a breed standard, a variance caused by a genetic variation should be expected. The prior interbreeding history indicates that genes may have even come from the American born Retrievers.

The Newfoundland based ancestry of Chessies and Labs goes back to the St. Johns breed of water dogs. This pet was bred for a useful function. It became a native of the Canadian island from the early 1500s. Casual breeding by European settlers designed this species. The ancestral breeding stock of this Canadian dog is not known for certain. No records remain from that time. But experts think some mixing of Europeans working dogs from Ireland, England and Portugal was used.

The history of Labradors reveals the breed was documented in 1939 for the first time. Its ancestry can be traced back to breeding programs of titled Englishmen, the Earl of Malmesbury and Duke of Buccleuch. All through the 19th century, these titled gentlemen were devoted to developing and enhancing this breed. The forbears of all today Labs are Ned and Avon, who belonged to the Duke of Buccleuch. The breed was brought to America from England.

The first recognized color was the black shade. Then after initially being rejected, the yellow color was officially recognized. Following the same pattern, the chocolate was ultimately acknowledged. Silvers are produced by the mixing of 2 recessive genes. By crossing Silvers, this shading is replicated in subsequent litters.

An interest in this color has grown, more breeders have begun to offer Silver Lab puppies for sale. These breeders believe in time this unconventional tint will turn out to be accepted the way yellow and chocolate shades were accepted. But this is an academic argument that has not discouraged escalating interest in these puppies. Under the coat is the natural temperament of this breed, which is the reason for its continuing popularity.




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