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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  Just because a traditional colored yorkie looks blue and tan, doesn't mean that they don't have a "swimming pool" full of hidden genes. Where Zane is focusing in on breeding genes (golden and parti) that have come out of the closet, so to speak, there are still many traditional yorkies who carry recessive genes that have not shown themselves yet because these carriers have not been bred to another dog who carries the same recessive gene for off colors.
I don't think anyone really knows how "crowded" the genes in our traditional yorkies are, we only know and see that these off colors are popping out of traditional lines. |
Sue, I was not referring to color genes--I think you are missing my point. I was generally speaking. Color aside, would you say that the majority of Yorkies being bred these days are good representations of the breed standard? Is it not TOO common that many times the dogs being produced these days stray from what a Yorkie "should" be extremely? This comes from overbreeding, from inscrupulous breeders who flat out don't care but just want to make money off a trend and the popularity of this breed. It's a result of the "more breeding the better" mentality. That was what I meant.