yellow lab-liver skin?

[Labc...@webtv.net]

Well, if your dog's nose and eye rims are a pink to darker shade of
pink, like a chocolate, there are dogs in both side of his pedigree that
carry the chocolate gene. It does not have to be expressed as a
chocolate color, but the pigment carries through. You would have to
have either a black parent that carries the chocolate gene or a
chocolate to get chocolate puppies. Otherwise the gene for chocolate
will be expressed in liver pigment on the yellows. I hope this makes
sense. LOL

I have a yellow CH/CD male who has a yellow great-grandfather that
produced chocolate. Even though this dog is in the forth generation, my
dog still carries the gene for chocolate, even though he himself has a
black nose and eye rims.

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[Cratedog]

I recently purchased my second lab puppy. The first puppy was from the third
litter of some great dogs. It was latter found to have some MS type dissease,
and we put him down. I quickly wanted to replace him and bought a yellow male.
The puppy has darker skin on his belly and I had read a post earlier about a
yellow pup with liver skin is possible (and undesireable) with a
yellow-chocolate breeding. Well I figured that is what I had - but i just got
the pup's pedigree in the mail and therer is no chocolate dogs in it. All the
dogs are yellows except one black three generations back. How does this
happen?