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Originally Posted by cocoangel  They are so beautiful! I've never heard of or seen a parti-yorkie!! how are they bred to get the colors?? |
Some Yorkies carry a recessive gene for the white color. Alot of people will tell you they do not, but the AKC did DNA testing on 42 litters of dogs and determined that it was a naturally occuring color in the dog before allowing them to be registered. Gold (tan or redish) is also a naturally occuring color in the yorkies. The golden parti colors are the result of breeding gold colored yorkies to parti colored yorkie and then breeding the offspring back to a parti colored yorkie. Zoey and Skye are the first two AKC dogs that I know of that they registered as Tan parti color. Other golden partis out there are registered as black and tan parti color.
Currently there are only about 17 Golden parti colored AKC yorkies in existence. That number is slowly going up though, my Golden parti will have pups in a couple months and it is a good possibility that Melissa's new dog will have at least one too.