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Originally Posted by Sharly4  Oh wow a couple of drivers on here! Yay I'm not the only one! We drove 48 hours round trip to drop off a puppy in CO. We ate with the family and enjoyed their company! Talking on the phone is nothing like meeting a family in person! I loved every minute of it! Now I want to drive every one of my babies so I can meet the families!! If I have a baby that's going to live out of town. I prefer it to shipping. So much more personal.
Sorry for getting off subject.
Yea I too don't understand for the higher price of a carrier on limited reg. if you can't breed or aren't supposed to breed there's really no reason to charge more. I know a carrier can produce a parti if bred to another parti or carrier. But if you're not supposed to breed then why charge more? I would charge what I would charge for a standard colored Yorkie. Since you're not breeding. Right? |
Another problem has complicated things; some biewer breeders are breeding biewers to parti's. Let me just say there is a huge difference between different biewers and what the breeders objectives are, although the to the untrained eye, the differences are not that apparent. Some are breeding because it's the newest thing, and they can get premium prices, and others are breeding because they believe that this particular strain that was developed in Germany, has enough unique traits that make it different enough from the yorkie to eventually become a new breed.
A biewer breeder breeding for the money can breed to a parti carrier who was sold on "limited registration". They aren't planning to register with the AKC anyway. So there is a demand right now for some of the carriers, and that always ups the price. What happens when there is no longer a demand, so many of the regular yorkies will now have this recessive gene. How will this effect them Yorkies the long run? A Biewer buyer has a very difficult time right now supporting breeders who are really interested in improving their breed. It isn't that easy to figure out the difference based merely on what the breeders themselves say. Parti breeders need to be especially careful where their carriers go, just as one time traditional breeders needed to be careful. Limited registration doesn't really protect, spay and neuter is the only real protection. I would stay away from biewer breeders who registered with the CKC, and other registries and look for a registry/club that didn't approve of the Yorkshire Terrier parti/biewer mixing anymore.