Hybrid Dog Coat and Color Types
Results of a seven year study conducted by
Goldendoodle World
A 7 year study on hybrid mixes and
their coat types was conducted by Goldendoodle World using
Schnoodles, Goldendoodles,
Lhasa Poos,
Pom-Chis, Pomapoos,
Schnerriers (Rat Terrier/Schnauzer mix) and a couple of other mixes. What
they found was pretty amazing.
When a Poodle
or long haired is bred with a short haired dog, say a rat terrier or
Chihuahua (dogs with very short, but soft
hairs), they found that you don't get a long hair effect. You don't even get
curly. What comes out is a "wirey" look with soft hairs. Colors and markings
will always vary. Heights and weights are never predictable, regardless of
the size of the parents. Shedding occurs more so than if the other parent
was a long haired, soft coated dog.
When a Poodle is bred to a soft
coated, long haired dog, you always get the shaggy, wavy look and there is
entirely less shedding regardless of Poodle hybrid so long as the other
parent was a long haired, soft coated dog. They also found that when a
Poodle was bred to a long haired, soft coated dog such as the, Lhasa-Apso or
the Schnauzer, the puppies were always born dark if they had color and white
stayed white. Many blacks turned silver if they used a silver blue Poodle or
Poodles that had more coloration in their pedigree than black.
When a black/tan phantom
Toy Poodle was bred to a very small
Goldendoodle who was of tri-color and who was
not related to the Toy Poodle), they saw black/white parti; White and
apricot with black tips. (the apricot with black tips even in purebred
poodles is extremely difficult to achieve.) There was consistency in the
coat being shaggy, wavy, with Goldendoodle puppies whose one parent was a
Goldendoodle and the other parent was an unrelated Poodle. Those puppies
still had the very same coat type that they see in their Goldendoodles who
have a Golden Retriever parent and a Poodle parent.
| It is Goldendoodle World's theory, after
all these years of creating Poodle hybrids, that a breeder can
succeed in coat consistency if they stick to the "first generation"
rule. |
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They can also predict sizes much
easier with their individual litters if they have Golden Retrievers who are
related to each other and Poodles who are related to each other even if they
switch the dogs amongst each other; meaning that if they used a Poodle to
one particular Golden Retriever for a mating and then later switched the
same Poodle with a different Golden Retriever who was related to the Golden
they last used, they will still see doodle puppies come out looking very
much like the ones they had with their last used Golden. Breeders who used unrelated Golden Retrievers and who use unrelated
Poodles will share the least success in coat consistency because their
bloodlines are different. They say for this reason they have had success in
knowing or predicting what they will have in sizes, colors and coat type
with their Goldendoodles. They say it's simply because they have Golden
Retrievers who are related to each other (not backbred or inbred, but being
the mother, father, sister or brother, grandfather or grandmother and so on,
to one another) and because their Poodles are all related to each other.
i.e. some are brothers; some are sisters; some are cousins, etc. Some are
related but not closely. They do not inbreed or line breed, they simply use
the same lines in their Poodles and the same lines in their Golden
Retrievers.
Note: This information is from
Goldendoodle World's personal experience and from their years of hybrid
research. It is based on the theory, a hybrid dog is better off not backbred,
inbred or line-bred. Read Designer Dogs for
more info.
