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Originally Posted by JeanieK  I think if the partis had set standards, like the Biewers, there would be more conformity in breeding, but with no standards set, so one knows what they are breeding for. They just breed to personal preference.
I personally like the black saddle and the black over both eyes. |
I like full masks and I'd love to see more markings across the back but it seems to be a crap shoot as to where the markings will fall in our dogs. Haven't you noticed that too Jeanie? I haven't seen one Parti breeder consistently produce markings like the Biewers, have you?
I'm afraid if our standards were as strict as the Biewers, that there would be a very limited number of parti's that meet the parti color standards (I know that would make a lot of people happy
). I think, for the most part, there are just different spotting genes involved in our AKC parti's than there are in the Biewers.
Just as the YTCA can't make off color genes disappear from the yorkie gene pool, we (parti breeders) won't be able to make or control the placement of color because our dogs have spotting genes or combinations of spotting genes, that produce more random markings. I don't think that our parti lines have the Irish spotting gene alone, which the Biewers seem to have in most instances.
Now with horses, the breeders of the Clydesdales (Budwiser Beer Draft horses) have learned to control the sabino gene markings to a point. They like to see big face blazes and 4 white legs. They've learned that by breeding a horse with 4 white legs to a horse with at least 1 dark leg, that will produce foals with the desired markings most of the time. When breeding 4 white legs with another horse with 4 white legs, they'd normally get more loudly/wildly marked foals.
Parti breeders will need time to find out what works best, to produce more consistent markings.