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Originally Posted by Emma Lee  I will absolutely consider the advice that has been given and appreciate it. I purchased my yorkie poo from a women who breeds yorkies, it was not something that she did on purpose. She bought a yorkie who was pregnant and did not know it. She has supported breeding my yorkie poo, though she does not breed them herself. When I talked about bettering the line what I was trying to say was eventually the poodle would be a very small contribution to this particular line. I guess I did not stop to think about all of the other things that go along with it. I will not breed these puppies and will do more research and when I feel confident in what I have learned I will then make a more informed decision as to whether or not breeding is something I wish to pursue. All but one of my puppies is spoken for and I will strongly suggest that the dogs be spayed/neutered. Emma had four puppies 3 girls, 1 boy, 2 girls and the boy are going and I will now be looking for a home for the 3rd girl. Maybe my question and my first breeding experience started out as a dumb one, but I have learned something from it. |
I understood what you meant by improving your line, but from what I understand, even though you would continue to breed with nothing but yorkies in the future, the dogs aren't really ¼ something and ¾ something else. Genes are passed and dominant genes will show a trait even though the dog only gets that gene from one parent. For example, poodles have really curly hair, and Yorkies have straight hair, the curly hair gene is dominant, so every dog will inherent the curly hair, it may not be as curly as the Poodle's, but it will still not look like a Yorkies hair should look. If you breed these dogs to a straight hair yorkie, the offspring could inherited the curly hair gene again, and being dominant, it would show on the dog, so you might have to breed 10 litters to ever get rid of the kinky hair, and there are so many other traits to consider as well. At one time there just wasn't enough dogs to go around and mixing and trying to develop a new breed was fairly common, but this isn't really recommended anymore. It's best to start with the best examples of the breed you can find, and improve on that.