Black Staffies

I'm just interested. Is it true all black Staffies are black Brindles, even if they look jet black

you cant get a pure black dog it has to have a bit of white, if a dog was pure black it would be still born that what i was told i think black or blindle the dominating gene i cant remember which one

Our puppy is black and white but at 3 weeks looks more chocolate brown. I'm interested to see what colour he end up. His dad is black brindle but looks pure black. Mum is blue and white. I really don't mind what colour he is, just interested

From what I've just read via Google it would appear that you can and its all about genetics. I'm taking the assumption that Google is always right here but this link might give you a bit more info if you can manage to read it through

http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/black.htm

Thanks for the link. I love to google things 2 lol

That was fasinating

good interesting link Ian 

Not sure I understood it all though

It's complicated but still very interesting

as far as i am aware, all black staffords have some brindling on them somewhere, if you look hard enough. sometimes you can only see it when the sun shines on the coat!

gillybrent wrote:as far as i am aware, all black staffords have some brindling on them somewhere, if you look hard enough. sometimes you can only see it when the sun shines on the coat!

Yes will agree with you 100% on that.It will be there somewhere if you search hard enough.

I just love brindle in all shades

I❤dogs wrote:I just love brindle in all shades

Me too!

Such a gorgeous colour

I❤dogs wrote:It's complicated but still very interesting

I'll try and simplify it as it is quite complicated to be fair.
Hair has two types of pigment, eumelanin which is a black/brown pigment and phenomelanin red/yellow pigment.

Now think of an on or off button within the genes that decide the hair colour. For ease and as it's Hair
H is eumelanin and h is phenomelanin.

Black would be HHHH (I'm using 4 as that is how many letters are in the word hair lol)

Blonde would be hhhh

Brown would be Hhhh

So it's a mix of these two types of pigment that gives the colour.


Bearing in mind this is a simplified version of what actually goes on but I hope it explains it.

Thank you, very interesting. My puppy now has brindle stripes thru him. His Dad looks jet black