Breeding Boston Terrier for Specific Color

by Kaysi Preston
(Pampa Texas)

My baby girl, Sophy is brindle and white and will start her third heat cycle in about 3 months. We are researching and looking to breed her. We like the markings of the red and white BT. What markings on the male will produce what markings of puppies? Sophy (brindle and white with a black and white will produce what markings? Brindle and white with a brindle and white will produce what markings? Brindle and white with a red and white will produce what markings? I know nothing is guaranteed but just curious.

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Breeding Boston Terrier for Specific Color

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Jun 07, 2012
 Color your Bostons by genetics
by: MadeInAmericaBostons

Males determine the final colors conformations sex of puppies so choose your male with high standards & in the color you would like to produce. You have a 50/50 chance with your mating that you get reds and black brindles etc. if your female has red in her background, less if she does not, however I have brindles and my male produces 1 or 2 cream puppies in each litter. We used him for a all black female and he also produced a dark cream so males will be your factor for color and a few surprises too!
Jun 06, 2012
 breeding colors
by: Alison

This is a touchy subject because Boston Terrier breeders that breed to improve the breed does everything they can not to have a red. I breed Bostons and if a red ever came into my breeding program they would be spayed or neutered and removed from my program along with the entire line. With that being said I do not love them any less and when it comes to a pet it doesn't matter what color they are. I will do my best to explain basic genetics to you. In the canine there are 39 pairs of chromosome and about 80,000 genes. The male and female contribute equally to the genetic makeup of their pups. This means each of the offspring will keep a combination from both parents of 39 chromosomes and 39 are discarded. No one knows which ones will be kept or discarded so in order to figure out color combinations you would need to know the color combination in the lineage. Undesirable traits are carried by the recessive gene. Traits controlled by the recessive gene will not be expressed unless both genes in the gene pool carry that trait.

In simple terms unless your Boston carries the red recessive gene and bred with a sire that also carries it you will not be able to produce a red Boston. For all other color combinations the same would apply. You would have to know the colors in the entire line but if they have been mixed meaning brindles with black and whites there really is no way to determine what the color will be.

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