NanaD -- THANK YOU so very much for your well thought out post.
I too, would like to see the Breeder's Forum here at YT a FRIENDLY place for ALL breeders, large, small, show, and non showing, to come and post trials, tribulations, triumphs of breeding. I have found that if I remain open minded I can learn from everyone - sometimes I learn things that I DON'T want to try but more often I glean helpful tips. It would be so very nice if the small breeders here at YT would post -- real life experiences from a wide variety of of breeders.
If everyone who posts here were required to read Simonandhallie's wonderful post in the following thread, then the breeder's forum WOULD be a YT friendly forum free of conflict:
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28203 I would treasure a visit to your small farm..... and I issue an invitation to you to visit my small horse farm here in the Georgia Foothills and to have a romp with me and my pups and ponies..... btw.... my miniatures are shirt nippers too so you would feel right at home.