Like Labs in the more regular shades Silver Lab puppies for sale are people pleasers. No wonder the breed has topped the yearly American Kennel Club list of popular dogs yet again. A 22 year winning streak in this popularity contest speaks for itself.
Although the color tone is termed silver, a closer description is a chocolate with silvery highlighting. The American Kennel Club registers this shade as part of the chocolate assortment. The Club registers dilute colored Labs under their foundation colors. There is some debate whether a Weimaraner ancestor is creating this uncommon shade. Certainly, the Labrador bloodline has had different breeds added into it in the past. But, it is more likely a variant of chocolate. A related retrieving species developed in America has a shade like this as a variant of brown.
The US breed is the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, originally informally bred mostly in Maryland. The breeding of Newfoundlands stock with local retrievers produced the Chesapeakes. This breed was developed coincidentally when the English were using Newfoundlands from their own inventory to breed Labradors. Among the native retriever breeds combined to create the Chesapeakes were the Curly Coat Retrievers, the Flat Coated Retrievers and English Otter Hounds. The Labrador bloodline also has Chesapeakes in the mix. Recorded history indicates the presence of two Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.
Astutely observant people think currently the Labrador lineage has expanded. They see evident differences in the field trial and showing varieties. Some observers do not think this tint is a variation of an established shade. They appear to not realize why this color has appeared naturally. It is also possible crossing Labs with Chessies also brought this potential into the mix.
The Newfoundland origin of the Labrador and Chesapeake breeds can be traced to the St. Johns Water Dog breed. This dog was bred for a functional purpose. It became native to this Canadian island by the early sixteenth century. Informal breeding over time by settlers created this species. The origins of its ancestry is cloaked by the mist of an unrecorded past. It is believed to be a combination of working breeds from Portugal, England and Ireland.
As records reveal, a Labrador entered the record books for the first time in 1939 as an individual species in England. Its heritage is traced to breeding by English lords, the Earls of Malmesbury and Dukes of Buccleuch. During the 19th century, these English breeders performed an integral job in creating and propagating this species. Ned and Avon belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch are identified as forbears of all Labs today. From England Labs were imported into the United States.
Black was the first color recorded in England. After initial rejection of yellow, this color was eventually officially accepted. The same pattern followed with the eventual acknowledgement of the chocolate hue. Silver labs were initially born from Chocolate parents carrying two recessive genes. The crossing of Silver dilutes has replicated this shade in succeeding litters.
An interest in this color has grown, more breeders have begun to offer Silver Lab puppies for sale. These breeders believe in time this unconventional tint will turn out to be accepted the way yellow and chocolate shades were accepted. But this is an academic argument that has not discouraged escalating interest in these puppies. Under the coat is the natural temperament of this breed, which is the reason for its continuing popularity.
Although the color tone is termed silver, a closer description is a chocolate with silvery highlighting. The American Kennel Club registers this shade as part of the chocolate assortment. The Club registers dilute colored Labs under their foundation colors. There is some debate whether a Weimaraner ancestor is creating this uncommon shade. Certainly, the Labrador bloodline has had different breeds added into it in the past. But, it is more likely a variant of chocolate. A related retrieving species developed in America has a shade like this as a variant of brown.
The US breed is the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, originally informally bred mostly in Maryland. The breeding of Newfoundlands stock with local retrievers produced the Chesapeakes. This breed was developed coincidentally when the English were using Newfoundlands from their own inventory to breed Labradors. Among the native retriever breeds combined to create the Chesapeakes were the Curly Coat Retrievers, the Flat Coated Retrievers and English Otter Hounds. The Labrador bloodline also has Chesapeakes in the mix. Recorded history indicates the presence of two Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.
Astutely observant people think currently the Labrador lineage has expanded. They see evident differences in the field trial and showing varieties. Some observers do not think this tint is a variation of an established shade. They appear to not realize why this color has appeared naturally. It is also possible crossing Labs with Chessies also brought this potential into the mix.
The Newfoundland origin of the Labrador and Chesapeake breeds can be traced to the St. Johns Water Dog breed. This dog was bred for a functional purpose. It became native to this Canadian island by the early sixteenth century. Informal breeding over time by settlers created this species. The origins of its ancestry is cloaked by the mist of an unrecorded past. It is believed to be a combination of working breeds from Portugal, England and Ireland.
As records reveal, a Labrador entered the record books for the first time in 1939 as an individual species in England. Its heritage is traced to breeding by English lords, the Earls of Malmesbury and Dukes of Buccleuch. During the 19th century, these English breeders performed an integral job in creating and propagating this species. Ned and Avon belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch are identified as forbears of all Labs today. From England Labs were imported into the United States.
Black was the first color recorded in England. After initial rejection of yellow, this color was eventually officially accepted. The same pattern followed with the eventual acknowledgement of the chocolate hue. Silver labs were initially born from Chocolate parents carrying two recessive genes. The crossing of Silver dilutes has replicated this shade in succeeding litters.
An interest in this color has grown, more breeders have begun to offer Silver Lab puppies for sale. These breeders believe in time this unconventional tint will turn out to be accepted the way yellow and chocolate shades were accepted. But this is an academic argument that has not discouraged escalating interest in these puppies. Under the coat is the natural temperament of this breed, which is the reason for its continuing popularity.
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