Breeding question....

I was wondering where pups get theyre colours from my friend tells me that a dog will 90% of the time get most its colour from its mother ie if the mother was 90%white and 10%red the pup will mostly be white no matter what colour the father is? is there any truth in this? as i dont think there is but i just want to be sure

Colours come from Genes.
I did some research to find out how brindle was 'made', as Teagan is brindle, but one parent was red, and the other was fawn.

But would 1parents genes have a bigger say in the colour? or is it split between the 2 50-50?

I thought it was an even combination of the two etc

I cant remember my biology days from school when we did this lol

it would depend who's genes will be more dominet ........it's very detailed to try and work out you would have to know the dog and bitches full history
hers' one for ya ......a tri coloured bitch cavalier is mated to a ruby dog what colours would you get ???? you have a go and i'll post later ..

I thought it was an even conbination of the two aswell Lel.

When I was researching brindle, I found this...it's quite interesting!
(click here>> Brindle genetics

If youve a quick ten mins (or hours) you could have a look here

http://bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/ColorGen.html

Dark brindle is a dominat colour, and if present in sufficent numbers in a pedigree chances are your pups will be mainly brindle irrespective of parents colour.

Jim Can You Take A Guess At My Question ...remenber Cavalier Colours Are..the Wholecolours...black And Tan And Ruby
The Parti-colours... Tri Colour And Blenheim .....

And Also Bare In Mind The R Recissive Gene ...........go On Have A Guess?

I have to do this, sorry - I'm a former geneticist

All pups inherit 50% of their genes from their dame and 50% from their sire.

Each gene may have number of different types - so to put it simply, there could be 4 types of one gene - A B C and D.

Each pup will have two copies of the gene, one from sire and one from dame leading to number of combinations, depending on the types that the sire and dame carry.

Not all type are equal - some are dominant over other (reccesive) types. If B is dominant to A for instance and you have a pup that is AB, they will only show the B characteristic.

Colour is complicated, as there is more than one "gene" that controls it: and each gene has a number of types, wich are dominant/reccesive over each other.

Did that make sense? I have loads of links if anyone is interested: but it gets really complex when you start looking at brindle and roans .

The KC website has a good interactive section, with nice solid-colour labradors as examples!