[angelakj]

I'm up late - can't sleep and just surfing through all the forums. I'm not a breeder but I have a Microbiology degree and I understand what you're talking about. If you want to know feel free to ask. To see the crosses you make a grid four across and four down. One parent on top one parent down. Two letters per box. Eggs and sperm carry half of the parent's genetic information so each egg/sperm will carry one gene for each color - one "B" and one "E". It's like an office football score card - match them up one from the top and one from the side. This is the edit of the correct way to do it. Fancy is BBEE and the stud is bbee. The four possible combos in the boxes across the top are BE,BE,BE,BE and the four possible combos on the side for the stud are be,be,be,be. You get sixteen possibilities. In this case the only possibilities are BbEe. All the puppies will be BbEe only and that is a puppy with dominant black and dominant E genes. Since black is a dominant color it would be expressed most with some influence from E to give a shade variation. If you breed a BbEe dog with a bbee the combos across the top are (BE,bE,Be,be) and the ones down the side are (be,be,be,be). The sixteen results are BbEe-4, Bbee-4, bbEe-4, bbee-4. I think that's right - it's been a while :?

 

[angelakj]

edited the top post

 

[angelakj]

Ok - I'm up. Last night I was in a fog from my wine - but a happy fog! When you have four color options the grid is made up of four sets of possible combinations. So actually, when you cross BbEe - the combos across the top would be (BE, bE, Be, be ). The grid works the same way but you get color combinations of four letters as results in the boxes not two. Also b is recessive black and mixed with E or e would probably give you the brown. I just don't know enough about what those colors are and what the combination colors are. For instance - What does a bbEe dog look like - what color is that. If someone wants to list them for me I should be able to help you more. This is stuff I learned a long time ago but it's coming back now. I'll run the sample crosses correctly again and edit the above post if I can this morning.

 

[angelakj]

Oh one more thing. The results are possibilities per puppy. Every egg/sperm combination has a 1/16 chance of being whatever. With the BBEE and bbee cross - the puppies have a 100% chance of being BbEe. The BbEe and bbee cross - the puppies EACH have a 25% chance of being BbEe, 25% chance of being Bbee, 25% chance of being bbEe and 25% chance of being bbee. Depending on how the eggs and sperm float around you could get a litter of 100% bbee. The crosses just show you what possible combos you could get and at what chance percentages could happen.