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Originally Posted by zenzele  |
Parti, golden and chocolate yorkies are no more prone to health issues than blue and tan yorkies are. Blue born yorkies are a different matter and often do have major health, skin and hair problems.
Other than the blue borns, the other off colored yorkies are not caused by a "genetic defect", their coloring is the result of recessive genes for those particular colors that are carried by both their parents. When a pup receives a recessive parti gene from the sire and a recessive parti gene from the dam, the pup will be parti colored (or chocolate or golden depending on which recessive color genes the parents carry).
People who still claim that parti, chocolate and golden colors are "genetically defective" are behind the times and need to do some research on canine coat color genetics ;-)