Hybrid Dog Coat and Color Types, Results of a seven year study conducted by Goldendoodle World

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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.

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.

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