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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s

Here ya go...I believe that I only provided those written by vets and from the Journal of Veterinary Science, so hopefully these will serve their purpose as the "facts" that you are looking for. (You probably won't find much unless you are searching by the scientific name of the condition, 'blue born' is more of a slang term.) Let me know if you need more... I will *try* to find the magazine article this weekend.

Journal of Veterinary Science

IGCA : CDA

Color Dilution Alopecia

http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/do...tions.html#CDA

- DPCA Breeders Education

Excellent post . I do want to know after reading this has anybody had problems with hair loss on their standard blue and tan colored yorkies? I did not know this was a problem before but the articles do state that the darker steel blues do not seem to have the problem. Let me also post a quote from one of the excellent articles you provided.

" Deeply pigmented or white areas of coat are unaffected. In blue dogs with tan points (Yorkies and Dobermans) the tan areas retain a normal appearance. In piebald (white spotted) individuals, the white areas are unaffected by the hair loss."