Since the early history of Labradors back in the 1800s From times when other breeds were being crossed into the St Johns Dog to ‘improve’ the breed įrom the times before the Labrador was even recognized by the major kennel clubs and became an official breed…The silver (or gray) color was never mentioned in any kennels accounts. And here is the curious thing… They Seem To Have Come Out Of Nowhere! So where did the silver Labrador come from? After researching the subject, I’ve been able to find only anecdotal accounts of the color being seen from the late 1920s onward. These rare gray Labradors were what we know today as silvers. However, as told by Jack Vanderwyk over at : “ In the 1950s a gun dog magazine published an advertisement from Kellogg’s kennels, in which they announced a litter of ‘rare gray Labradors’.” Until perhaps the 1950s, the silver-colored lab was completely unseen or if it was then it was probably culled at birth. Where Did The Silver Labrador Retriever Come From? It’s argued that ‘pure labradors’ can only have a ‘DD’ pairing, never a ‘dilute factored‘ ‘Dd’ that can pass on the dilute gene, and certainly never be an actual dilute color carrying the ‘dd’ pairing. If mated with a Dd carrier, dilute labs could appear in the litter.) (And if mated with a DD lab, no dilutes will be in the litter.
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