Can Black Doodles change colour?

[Lynne, Bonnie and Teddy]

Hi just interested to know if anyone else with a black dood has experienced a change of colour? Bonnie was jet black at 12 weeks and now at 9 months is changing the colour on her back to a lovely chocolate brown. She has patches on her legs too and also has some white hairs on her back. Don't mind at all as adds to her personality but wondered if it is common and whether she will continue to change as she gets older?

[LeAnn, Lucy & Rusty!!]

My Lucy is 10 months old and has two colors now appearing. She has beautiful chocolate brown highlights that are heavier in some areas than others and she's getting grey hair on her hind quarters.. LOL.. I'll be interested to see if and how this progresses...

P.S. Nice to meet you all...

[Sandy]

Toby has always been jet black, with just a touch of white on his chin and chest. We just noticed, however, a reddish brown patch on his neck! He's 19 weeks old. His father was an English retriever, golden, and his mother was a chocolate standard poodle. Interesting - I guess I'm not alone in watching the colour change happen!

[Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran]

Oh, yes! Casey was once so black you could barely make out his features, and now he's very grey - started getting grey at 6 months old.

[Kathy]

Tia is getting more and more scattered white hairs and around her muzzle is chocolate colored. Most of the white hair is on her back but she has some around her eyes and nose.

[Jojo]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My baby girl was jet black when we got her and well now she is a grayish black. She has some gray hairs and well serious color change.

[1gv2q10om3oia]

We didn't have Roscoe as a tiny puppy, but at four months he was all black. Now he has that coca-cola beard someone else mentioned. It's reddish just around the snout! He's so handsome!

[Kim Armstrong]

Hi Lynne, Hi Bonnie,

As a breeder just wanted to let you know, I personally have not seen one that has not changed color and that goes for all of coats. I think this all goes back to their lineage. If you look at their pedigrees you will see so many colors from Grandma and Grandpa and their greats. I think the cream and the apricots and the reds are more easily descised in Chocolate, Cream and Caramel coats but the Black coats can't get away with it. They still are so beautiful. With this said it should be made known to potential black doodle parents that what you see is not what you will get.

[3fwmcaopi7kpz]

Oh totally! When we got my Layla, she was completeley black! As she got older, some white hairs started coming through like on her tail and back. Then a few years later after she had her first litter of pups she is starting to grey and silver out. Her daughter Mylie was pure black also, but she is silvering all over. but that could also be because her daddy was a silver standard poodle. I think it makes them even cuter!

[1i86r4x3nftnw]

hi i have a black labradoodle and she is 7 months old and she is starting to get a lot of white fleece coming through on her back and she has a pure white patch in her tail her father was crream and her father was black no matter what the colour she is adorable and cheeky