Coat Color Chart

 (  GENE Inheritance) 

 for SOLID BLACK/CHOCOLATE AND   ( CLEAR) CREME  COLOR  POMERANIANS 


Once your dog has been tested and you know its genotype, use this table for breeding strategies and breeding stock selection. The outer ring of the color buttons shows the visible coat color with the small upper right circle showing the nose color

 (black or CHOCOLATE ). The inner rings show the hidden color genes carried by the dog. Entries in the table show the probabilities of producing various coat colors within a litter

	BBEE  I	BBEe II	BbEE III	BbEe IV	BBee V	Bbee VI	bbee VII	bbEE VIII	bbEe IX
BBEE  I	All Black	All Black	All Black	All Black	All Black	All Black	All Black	All Black	All Black
BBEe II	All Black	¾ Black ¼ CREME	All Black	¾ Black ¼ CREME	½ Black ½ CREME	½ Black ½ CREME	½ Black ½ CREME	All Black	¾ Black ¼ CREME
BbEE III	All Black	All Black	¾ Black ¼ Choc.	¾ Black ¼ Choc.	All Black	¾ Black ¼ Choc.	½ Black ½ Choc.	½ Black ½ Choc.	½ Black ½ Choc.
BbEe IV	All Black	¾ Black ¼ CREME	¾ Black ¼ Choc.	9/16 Black ¼ CREME 3/16 Choc.	½ Black ½ CREME	3/8 Black ½ CREME 1/8 Choc.	¼ Black ½ CREME ¼ Choc.	½ Black ½ Choc.	3/8 Black ¼ CREME 3/8 Choc.
BBee V	All Black	½ Black ½ CREME	All Black	½ Black ½	All CREME	All CREME	All CREME	All Black	½ Black ½  CREME
CREMEBbee VI	All Black	½ Black ½  CREME	¾ Black ¼ Choc.	3/8 Black ½ CREME 1/8 Choc.	All CREME	All CREME	All CREME	½ Black ½ Choc.	¼ Black ½ CREME ¼ Choc.
bbee VII	All Black	½ Black ½  CREME	½ Black ½ Choc.	¼ Black ½ CREME ¼ Choc.	All CREME	All CREME	All CREME	All Choc.	½ Choc. ½ CREME
bbEE VIII	All Black	All Black	½ Black ½ Choc.	½ Black ½ Choc.	All Black	½ Black ½ Choc.	All Choc.	All Choc.	All Choc.
bbEe IX	All Black	¾ Black ¼  CREME	½ Black ½ Choc.	3/8 Black ¼ CREME 3/8 Brown	½ Black ½  CREME	¼ Black ½  CREME ¼ Brown	½ Choc. ½  CREME	All Choc.	¾ Choc. ¼  CREME




Once your dog has been tested and you know its genotype, use this table for breeding strategies and breeding stock selection. The outer ring of the color buttons shows the visible coat color with the small upper right circle showing the nose color (black or CHOCOLATE ). The inner rings show the hidden color genes carried by the dog. Entries in the table show the probabilities of producing various coat colors within a litter. 

For example, if your results show that your dog is a Type VI, your dog is a  CREME  dog with a black nose carrying the hidden genes for black and chocolate. If you were to mate your dog with a Type VIII, the resulting litter would, on the average, have half black and half chocolate puppies. 

These probabilities represent expectations averaged over the long run and are subject to the law of probabilities.

Note that any breeding which produces both chocolate and  CREME 

 has the potential to produce chocolate nosed yellows ( BEAVER). If the breeding does not have the potential to produce blacks, only yellow and chocolate, all  CREMES will have chocolate noses. 

BB = black POM, no chocolate gene 
Bb = black POM, carries chocolate gene 
bb = chocolate POM, no black gene

CREME is produced by the presence of a recessive DILUTE 

 gene which has the effect of masking the the black or chocolate genes.

EE = no CREME gene 
Ee = CREME carrier but apears either black or chocolate 
ee = CREME  

So....
EEBB =Basic Black (BB)
EEBb =Black that carries Choc. (Bc)
EeBB =Black that carries CREME (By)
EeBb =Black that carries CREME and chocolate (Byc)
eeBB = CREME  (Yy) [does not carry chocolate]
eeBb = CREME that carries Chocolate (Yc)
eebb =chocolate pigmented CREME  ~ No Black Pigment (NBP)
EEbb =Chocolate (CC) [does not carry CREME ]
Eebb =Chocolate that carries CREME  (Cy)