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Silver Labrador Breeders Are Breeding A New Hybrid Color 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.

Origins of the breed can be traced to the Canadian island of Newfoundland and the St. Johns water dog. The ancestors of the St. Johns bloodline are not known for certain. But it is thought that this breed developed from some mixture of English, Portuguese and Irish working dog breeds.

These dogs came to the U. S. By way of Great Britain. In Great Britain, this breed was first documented under the name in 1839. Their lineage can be traced to early breeding by British lords, primarily the Earls of Malmesbury and the Dukes of Buccleuch.

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 variant, chocolate labs appeared in early breeding and were often terminated. As this is also a recessive color, this hue would sporadically appear. Eventually, this tone was also accepted and registered by British and American Kennel Clubs.

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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