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Originally Posted by Golden Parti  If you study the yorkie breeding practices of show breeders you will see that they have done extensive inbreeding in the traditional colors. Inbreeding was done to reduce the size of the offspring. Anytime you inbreed you are doubling the recessive genes. If one dog carries the the gene for gold and you breed it back to it's own offspring you might produce gold offspring. If you do the same with a dog carrying the gene for white you might produce white pups.
On the negative side if you have a dog carrying a gene for a defect and you inbreed you produce the defect. This is true for all colors of Yorkies. |
I am fully aware as I have been very involved with the Biewers but do not think all breeders do extensive inbreeding...do your homework as inbreeding was not done to reduce the size of the dogs -wherever did you get this from? Liver Shunt is also a product of inbreeding..you also need to review your pedigree's to see how far removed are your dogs from each other.
Eventually the litters will get smaller and smaller until you will not have any more puppies if you continue to do this and not bring in new blood.