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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  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. |
Nancy it is important to for those to know there are 2 different CKC registries.
One in America and one in Canada.
The CKC I was talk about is the "Canadian Kennel Club".
The Canadian Kennel Club is like our AKC.
And there are Biewer breeders who do believe the true Biewer is the German version of the American Parti’s since they were produced by 2 traditional yorkies.
And YES they do believe in breeding back to the Yorkshire Terrier or the Parti's.
Since the Biewer’s can not be registered with AKC, breeders do use the some of the other American registries like CKC,APRI and ACA.