sable boy mated to a blue roan bitch - what colour are the pups likely to be?

[Kathyf]

Please could somebody advise me what colour puppies I could expect to get from a Blue roan bitch mated to a sable boy. I believe the Blue roan is the dominant gene and the pups will probably be all black.  Is this correct?  

[spanielcrazy]

No way to really know  You don't say what the colours parents of the mated pair were, but no, I don't think you'll necessarily get all black, you will probably have some blue roans (possibly more darkly marked) or some mismarked solids, and who knows what else?!

[Jane S]

It might be better to ask the stud dog owner. If they're offering a dog at stud, they ought to have a good idea about colour inheritance & pedigrees so they can advise bitch owners on what colours their dog carries & what he might produce mated to particular bitches. But like Spanielcrazy says, there's no real way of knowing unless you know for sure what colours & patterns are carried by each parent eg a solid sable can produce roans if he carries the relevant gene & is mated to a particolour.

[Kathyf]

Hi - thanks for the responses - the bitches mother was chocolate roan & tan, dad was black and white grandparents blue roan, black & white, orange & white, great grandparents blue roan, tricolour, chocolate roan, chocolate roan & tan and black & white so quite a mix.  The sable dog is a young stud so hard to tell.