About Weimaraner's

Blue Creek Kennels is located just west of the geographical center of the United States, In Smith Center, KS. 

Blue Creek Kennels produces the warm, slate-gray color, otherwise known as “Blue” in the Weimaraner breed it is a result of what science of genetics calls a mutation.  Evidence appears to indicate that this same mutation has appeared at rare intervals during the entire history of the breed.  The first sight of a blue was in Austria 1940. 

Genetically, the blue color in the Weimaraner is dominant over more common silver-gray color.  When a blue is bred to a silver-gray, there is no mixing or blending of colors.  The two colors are two distinct entities or units, and they remain so.  It is not like mixing of cream or coffee, but rather like mixing of 50 gray marbles and blue marbles in a bucket.  When you grab a handful you will, on the average, get some blues and some grays, but no intermediate colors.  If you grab out enough handful you will end up with 50 percent blues and 50 percent grays, just as you would breeding blue to gray. The blue puppies will carry genetic factors for both the blue and the gray they are known as “Blue Dominants”..

When a blue offspring, of one gray parent and one blue parent, is bread to another blue offspring of one blue and one gray parent, the genetic expectation will be for a litter of 25 percent gray and 75 percent blue.  These grays will be pure grays; they will carry no blue factor and if bred to grays, they will never produce blue offspring in future generations.  The 75 percent of litter which are blue in color are, genetically two different kinds of blue- pure blues and blue dominants.  25 percent of the 75 percent will be pure blue; they will carry no gray factor and regardless of whether they are bred to blues or grays they will produce litters having nothing but blue puppies in them.  The remaining 50 percent are blue in color, they are blue in color, they are blue dominants; they carry factors for both blue and gray and if bred to grays will produce litters of 50 percent grays and 50 blue dominants.