Doodle Genetics Simply Explained

[Adina P]

DK Veterans...remember that old "marble" explanation about doodle genetics?  Well I could never find the actual discussion so I decided to make a video--which is, hopefully, a lot easier to follow!

I posted this on our Facebook page and Ned, Clancy, and Charlie's Mama requested I add it here too.  

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I can;t believe you couldn;t find it!

The marbles were blue and yellow in the original example:
Here's Adina's old "jar of marbles analogy:
Thinking of JUST an F1b labradoodle for instance. Imagine that poodle genes are blue marbles and lab genes are yellow marbles.

A jar of F1 genes that was a pure 50/50 mix you'd have equal blue to yellow marbles.
And a poodle genes jar would contain only blue marbles.

Now to make an F1b for every 2-gene combo you'd randomly choose one marble from the F1 jar and one marble from the Poodle jar. When choosing from the poodle jar you'd ALWAYS get a poodle gene. But when blindly reaching into the F1 jar, sometimes you'd pick a blue sometimes a yellow.... So some F1b's could have more poodle genes, others more lab genes...and only looking at a WHOLE population average would F1b's look like 3/4 poodle.

But then mixing the F1 x F1b means there is still a possibility of some LABBY pups and some POODLEY pups.

Read more here: http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/smooth-goldendoodle#ixzz4x...

[Adina P]

Thanks!  I couldn't find it ... only lots of references to it :-)

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Anotherr one where you used the same analogy:

http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/anyone-own-a-f1-x-f1b-pup

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

In this discussion, I used red and blue marbles: 

Genetics are funny that way. You can have 90 red marbles and 10 blue marbles in a jar, and if you reached in blindfolded and pulled out two marbles at random, they could both be blue. That's the way genes work. 

Read more here: http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/f1b-mini-goldendoodle-shed...

[Adina P]

Yes!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Good idea to post it here. Too much passes DK by on FB.

[Frank & TeddyToyDoodle]

Teddy's mom was a Mini Goldendoodle and his father was a MINI poodle.  He's a Toy Goldendoodle.

So.....since the mom was 75% poodle (Goldendoodle 50-50 mom; mini poodle 100% poodle dad), I guess Teddy is 87% poodle ?

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Thank you so much for posting this.  It is a simple, visual that totally explains how doodles have such a wide range of 'looks.'

[DonMarie and Picco]

Explained well and simple but you would get more attention if you used M&Ms    :-)     Just having fun!