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Originally Posted by SoCalyorkiLvr These are yorkshire terriers and there are no more incidents of defects in these "off color" puppies than in the standard. Only the so called "blue" yorkies have some health defects and not all of them are affected.
If you study genetics I think, if I am not mistaken, you will see that even blue eyes for example are "recessive" as is blonde hair generally, so I think you may be misunderstanding the meaning of the word "recessive" in scientific terms. |
I'm not misunderstanding. What my concern here is if you limit your gene pull to only other dogs carring the same recessive gene for the "off color" that you are more likely to find that they carry other recessive genes in common that would be more likely to produce problems. If this is not the case that is great, but I would be interested in reading if any studies were done. It is true that blonde hair and blue eyes are recessive but as a society we don't limit ourselfs to only others of the same gene pool.