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Originally Posted by Haleys_mom  Sue, has anyone ever done any dna testing on the partis? I know a few years there was never such a thing as a parti, and I'm wondering why all of a sudden there are so many? This is just out of curiosity |
Off color has always been in our breed, it's just that they were swept under the carpet (or thrown off a bridge) but in 2000, AKC allowed Parti coloring to be registered. It was only after an extensive AKC investigation, where they DNA'd 42 litters and as many living relatives of the Nikkos breeding, and interviewed with Old-time, well known breeders that said they've had parti and other colors show up in their lines, that AKC decided to allow off colored yorkies to be registered.
One well known breeder, said she'd had lots of parti coloring show up in her litters but she got rid of the parti pups and never repeated the breeding ... the Nikkos bloodlines traced back to this breeders stock.
I'm sure if AKC still denied the registration of off colors, we would be seeing or hearing about off colors, a lot less often.