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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  Somewhere back in this thread, someone said they were trying to breed partis and had been unsuccessful in breeding this color. I would think if this was clearly one recessive gene, it would be easy to get partis, no? Wouldn't you just take two partis, or two dogs that have produced parti pups? Did I misunderstand something? |
If you take two partis, you will always produce a parti, but people are taking regular yorkies, and breeding them to make them parti carriers. With two parti carriers, your odds of getting a full parti are 1 in four. Remember this is just statistically speaking. It doesn't mean for every 4 puppies one breeder has, he'll always have one parti. One breeder could produce 4 pups that display the parti trait while another may have none. Think of sex in human babies, the odds are close to 50-50 for male and female, but we all know families that have all males or all females.