What color puppies will a buff female and chocolate male cocker spaniel have?
DJLENE asked:
I am looking to buy a puppy cocker spaniel for my husband. I wanted to buy one from a local AKC breeder in town, but their next litter has a chocolate male and buff female. My husband is wanting a parti or tri colored male. My question is, is it possible for them to have puppies that aren’t solid colors?
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I am looking to buy a puppy cocker spaniel for my husband. I wanted to buy one from a local AKC breeder in town, but their next litter has a chocolate male and buff female. My husband is wanting a parti or tri colored male. My question is, is it possible for them to have puppies that aren’t solid colors?
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 am
Back years ago when I use to raise cockers my female was buff and my male was charcoal and when they had puppies they was a solid color. I had some buff and some black but never a tri colored one. So I would say no. There is some AKC breeders around that breed tri colored cocker spanials. Good luck
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Depends on the colors behind them. I know that Chocolate is recessive…do you know what colors the chocolate dog’s parents were?
I believe that Buff is also recessive (based on what I’m seeing here:
Given the fact that both dogs are recessive colors, and non-spotting is a dominant gene, I doubt they would produce any parti-colors. But…again…it depends on the colors in their pedigree.
Have you asked the breeder? They should know their pedigrees well enough to answer. If they don’t, you don’t want to buy from them.
Cockers are prone to eye problems, as well - be sure this breeder has conducted CERF exams on both dogs.
More information on responsible breeding:
August 6th, 2009 at 3:45 am
this is impossible to answer without knowing the bloodline of both the sire and the dam (and even if you know that it’s still difficult to predict exactly what colour combinations you will get in any given litter) - genetics are quite a complex thing you know.