Brown Color

It all depends on genetics or basically what the parents look like

This is my Cafe au lait Beatrice

17 1/2 weeks

and last week age 5 years

oh brown poodles will never have black pigment as in nose, lips.

mandarine said:

Jumping on since I was already wondering this: which colors always have a black nose? Does poodle nose color ever fade, or is it pretty constant (self nose at birth, self nose whole life)?

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MF already answered some of your question but I will expound. Blacks (and blues and silvers) will always have a black nose. Browns (and cafe au lait and silver beige) will always have a brown nose. Poodles on the white/red color spectrum (white, cream, apricot, and red) can have either black or brown noses but liver noses are undesirable (and incorrect for white/cream.) Breeders can eliminate the possibility of breeding brown nosed white dogs by ensuring that brown and white (or dogs that carry brown and white) aren’t bred together. Seeing a white dog with a liver nose is almost a sure sign of a backyard breeder to me.

As MF already mentioned, white-red poodles can get snow nose, or have their black noses fade permanently. This has to do with pigment. The best indicator that I have seen for a puppy keeping their black nose is by how dark the pigment is when they are born. Some pups are born with pink noses that develop the black a few days later, and some are born with black noses - those ones usually tend to stay dark, though there are always exceptions to the rule. Something else I have observed is that males tend to hold their pigment better than females. My bitch has bad pigment and thus her nose has faded to brown on top - on the bottom it still looks black. But she has littermates with very dark black pigment year round. Most good breeders are breeding towards good pigment in whites, but there are so many other things they are breeding for as well, you just don’t know how the genetics will fall into place. Hope this helps to answer your question.