Pied to Pied breedings - any risks?
patpearce March 10th, 2008
Pied to Pied breedings - any risks?
Is there a problem breeding a pied female to a pied male, I love the pied and plan to possibly breed my only pied female one ore time and really want to make sure to have a pied puppy. Is there any problem with this? We bred her last time to a fawn male and all ended up being fawn.
Pat writes -
Well people breed pieds all the time… there are some considerations, as there are with any breeding. You want to make sure that the stud of choice has his health testing, and that he has a good temperament, and has good conformation (as you would with any male you were considering breeding your girl to)
If your girl is pied and you breed her to a pied you WILL get pied pups. The Pied gene is recessive, and in order for it to be evidenced - it has to be the only gene in that area… if you bred a fawn pied to a brindle pied - if he DOES NOT carry the fawn gene you will get brindle pieds (brindle is dominent over fawn) If he does carry fawn the you may get some fawn pied… but the odds are the same on each pup..
I think with pieds the most ideal are double hooded (meaning that both ears and sometimes eyes are within the color patchs on the head) - it creates a more pleasing look and there is less chance of a deaf dog if they have color around their ears. If both parents are double hooded there is a greater chance that the pups will be double hooded - does NOT guarantee that the pups will be double hooded. And it isn’t a big deal.
However - if both the dam and the sire are healthy dogs and the breeding complements your girl and there isn’t anything yucky in the background of the dogs, then there is nothing wrong with mating two pied dogs…
You should ask about other pups that this sire has produced so you can see that he has produced nice pups….
Good luck
Pat
