If I want to breed a labradodle

[Suetheramble]

( which I dont)can it be done with 2 labradooles or does one have to be a labrador and the other a poodle and do all puppies look the same or do some look like labs and some like poodles?

[Clanad]

The so called "designer dogs", at least here in the U.S. are only produced by pure-bred parents of both varieties. Mrs. C. has a Zuchon... a cross between a Bichon Frisse and a Shih-Tzu. If two of the Zuchons were crossed, there's no telling what the product would look like. Additinally, breeders speak of "F-1" genetic strength or vigor. Seems only the direct off-spring of one Shih-Tzu with one Bichon Frisse produces an off spring with genetic viability that's soon lost if the hybrid off spring are bred with each other...

[fredpuli47]

From the same one mating the puppies looked pretty much alike. The colour may be a surprise, because you're getting genetic material from earlier generations which may show up. Example: a black American cocker spaniel dam mated with a white min. poodle sire threw one black female, which became silver when mature, and the rest of the litter were female and coloured like the sire, though one was markedly golden in tint.Explanation? The sire's sire was silver,I learned.Silver puppies start out as black. The golden colour of one may be because that one parent had apricot in its bloodline somewhere. All the puppies were more like the poodle in coat than the dam and didn't moult like the dam did but the coat was more silky than a poodle coat, more like the dam's.In type, they had the exceptional agility and the light frame of the poodle but the face was quite spaniel-like, Note that some breeders don't breed colour to colour in poodles and they get a mixture of colours in litters as a result.That's their market to the public,who may want a choice of colour ( I disapprove!).
They may not been any guarantee that the next identical mating will produce pups like the first litter, but I'm no geneticist !
Breeding the same crossbreed to the same crossbreed, and so on down, could produce almost anything! 'Labradoodles', so-termed, themselves seem to differ quite a bit, notably in the degree of moult in the coat . These may be labradoodles bred to labradoodles, of course.To breed a recognisable breed, like the Dobermann, requires very selective breeding indeed, to create animals that breed true to type.

[jules77]

It can be either, a labrador x poodle would be a first cross, and multi cross would be two labradoodles. Some unscrupulous breeders will advertise Labradoodles saying they wont moult, which is not the case, as no two puppies coats are the same.

[lankeela]

Lots of information here. One word of caution both Labradors and Poodles suffer from an inherited eye condition, so even if the litter is a first cross or even a mix of poodle/lab anywhere down the line, they can be affected, as the dogs can carry the condition without actually having it themselves, so can pass it on to the next generations. Therefore it is incorrect to say that they are more healthy than a purebred.

http://www.labradoodle.org.uk/