My 11 year old yellow carrying chocolate still has beautiful pigment except in the winter. There is nothing I have ever seen that makes her any different than a Yy. I bred her twice to Yy's, again beautiful pigment in all pups beginning quite young.
To be super safe you might want to breed her to a pure for black stud-dog. In recent years, I try to breed more black than anything but it's become my cup of tea.
Breeding black into the eebb or EEbb chocolates makes the chocolate coats beautiful thick and dark, here anyway. Do others see this?
Nose color can be fading or solid depending on the yellow line the dog has and that can be bred out to dark leather too.
We have done it over the years with leather, eye and coat color.
A yellow eebb should be DNA tested because they can carry more than two copies of the b genes(check with DDC) and can be bred to a pure for yellow or black carrying only yellow or to a black dog carrying only chocolate or a pure for chocolate. The parent can't be shown but are like have two dogs in one that produce beautiful puppies.
Don't throw those genetic wonders out because of nose color!
Breeding black into the eebb or EEbb chocolates makes the chocolate coats beautiful thick and dark, here anyway. Do others see this?
No, this is not fool proof. I have a pure chocolate bitch with a so-so coat (not incorrect, just not THICK like folks want). I used two beautiful boys on her known for coat. One a chocolate and one a BC. I got a better dog with the BC but the lesser of the coats.
