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Originally Posted by yorkiekist  The parti breeders claim that there have been many DNa tests done, especially on one kennel, to prove that they are purebred. The only thing that these DNA tests did was to say that the parents of the puppies were in fact the parents of the puppies. This test cant tell you if these puppies are purebred yorkies and cant tell you if there was another breed introduced in an earlier generation. |
It is a fact, not a claim, that the Nikkos parti line was extensively DNA tested; not just the parents of the puppies and the puppies themselves but as far back with the living relatives as possible.
Now, in pedigrees 4 generations prior to CH Nikkos Rolls Royce Ashley (who is where the parti gene was show to be coming from) there was CH Wildweir Pomp N Circumstance.
Is it a coincidence that the new parti lines that are cropping up in litters and surprising their traditional yorkshire terrier breeders, are tracing back to CH Wildweir Pomp N Circumstance who was born 50 years earlier?
Is it a coincidence that during the AKC investigation, where respected, Old time breeders were interviewed about off colors popping up over the years in their breeding programs, that AKC determined these off colors
do show up in standard litters.
Is it a coincidence that Wildweir kennel was one of the old time breeders interviewed and that they told AKC they had parti pups born in some of their litters?
If this recessive gene is
still being passed down through some bloodlines 50 years later, why is it so hard to believe that these genes could not have come from the non purebred, heritage unknown, dogs that began this breed 80+/- years earlier?
Every dog that carries a recessive gene passes that gene onto half of it's offspring, so if the dog has a lot of progeny, there could be many carriers who when bred to another carrier will produce 25% colorful offspring. That's how recessive genes work, they hide until two dogs with the same recessive genes are bred together and then "surprise!"