Lorken Farms, Labrador Retrievers, Fremont, WI 

Buccleuch Avon was born in 1885 to two St. John's dogs imported directly from Newfoundland.  He sired 'liver colored pups and so the gene likely came from either his father Malmsbury Tramp or his mother Malmsbury Juno.  At the time the only desired color for these dogs was black and so another color was either 'put down' or given to someone as purely a pet.  There were no genetic tests for color genes until recently so this is a study of patterns that best explain how the genes were passed on.