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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  I thought so, but you never know...especially the way things have gone around here today.b 
Do you forsee AKC as requiring extensive genetic testing on original parti breeding stock to prove that they were from standard colored Yorkies? (To disprove the theory that there was Maltese or other breed blood intigrated?)  |
The original Nikko's like of parti's trace 5, 6, 7 generations back to Champion Nikkos Rolls Royce Ashley. He was a parti carrier (which of his parents were carriers is unknown at this point). But his parti carrier sons and daughters when bred together, produced parti colored pups. This line was extensively DNA tested prior to AKC allowing the parti color to be registered.
If new parti lines are popping up, I think that those lines should also be DNA'd as well.
As for the new DNA test that will determine the "purity" of a breed, than wouldn't all or at least a large percentage of the Yorkshire terrier breed, need to be tested to determine a base line of how pure the yorkshire terrier breed overall is? It would be interesting if the Nikkos line turned out to be purer than some of today's traditional "thought to be pure" lines of yorkies are?