brookcove
Posted : 7/10/2007 11:51:06 AM
I'm no retriever expert but there could be some golden in the face of that one picture. The way the white is appearing seems like more of a golden thing, though I suspect some yellow labs have it too.
The rough coat would be recessive to the lab's smooth coat, though you could get a "surprise" rough in such a litter if the lab parent were carrying a recessive allele for rough coat. So anyway, you can't go by the coat to dismiss the Golden idea.
At our old place there was a guy who lived behind us who had a field bred Golden. She was really dark, very light coated, and extremely small and fine boned. She was also gunshy, oops. [
] Anyway, she wasn't any bigger than my Border collies. Well, my bigger ones. So the "small" genetics are in there.