All Colour Labradors - Neapolitan Puppies

25/10/2026

This stunning boy is still available, due to buyer default,

23/10/2026

23/10/2026

Another Airport drop off! Going to Sydney. Safe flight Yoki ( now Milo).

22/10/2026

From a Silver Lab page

Where Did the Dilute Gene in Labradors Really Come From?

The usual story blames one yellow dog — Kellogg's Kernel, born 1961 — and a supposed Weimaraner cross. I breed Labradors, and it never made sense to me: dilute is recessive (the MLPH "D locus" — a carrier looks completely normal, and a dd puppy needs the gene from BOTH parents), and in a yellow dog it hides better than anywhere else. So I traced the pedigrees back as far as the records go, followed the documented carriers forward, and searched 1800s newspapers. The records tell a different story.

THE NEWSPAPERS:
• 1841, New Orleans — a lost "large silver colored NEWFOUNDLAND DOG"
• 1851–1872 — grey Newfoundland dogs lost and found in Glasgow, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Newcastle and Middlesbrough (grey is the dilute color in Newfoundlands to this day)
• 1858, Devon, England — a "Silver coloured WATER SPANIEL… first-rate for water, and good retriever" for sale
• 1884, Winnipeg, Canada — a dog show with a judged class for "Silver color English retriever" dogs AND bi***es, with named winners: a recognized, repeated color in the retriever stock the Labrador came from
• 1888, Tasmania — a "pure bred silver-colored Retriever Pup" for sale
• 1889, London — a "BLUE RETRIEVER DOG" for sale (blue is the period word for dilute black)

AND THE TWO THAT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES:
• 1904, Somerset, England — a "Pedigree Silver-colour LABRADOR RETRIEVER" maiden bitch, 18 months old, advertised for £8
• 1945, Hull, England — a "Silver Labrador Dog" sold openly, before Kernel was even born

THE PEDIGREES:
A documented carrier line does run from Kernel's family: Kernel → Saylor's Major → Black Honey Of Kemp → Taxi Of The Island City → Queja C**o, the foundation bitch of Crist C**o Kennels in Minocqua, Wisconsin — the first kennel to openly breed and advertise silvers, in the early 1980s. But even inside Kernel's family, the evidence narrows only to Kernel OR Kellogg's Jean, the Kellogg kennel's own brood bitch. And the other two carrier parents behind the first silvers — Toma's Beaver Creek Herschel (Canadian field lines) and Queja's own dam, Topo C**o — had no Kellogg in their pedigrees at all. Three genetically separate carrier lines, all present in the upper Midwest by the 1970s.

The dilute gene didn't arrive in the 1950s. It was here all along — in the St. John's dogs, the retrievers, and the spaniels — hiding in carriers, especially yellows.

Full article (all 6 pages) on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dex4wpUDAEY/
— Lilly Burkhart, Windbush Kennels, Coulterville, IL

21/10/2026

Chocolate puppies have arrived.

21/10/2026

How well trained, waiting for Dinner. 1 still available

17/10/2026

Not so shy once you come to a horse show

13/10/2026

Another Airport drop off done! Safe flight Mika.

06/10/2026

Microchip & Vac day for Marni’s huge (in size of pup🤣) beautiful litter of 2