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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  This is one reason I don't recommend people buy parti's, the breeders tend to breed the sire and dams to the offspring, there is too much inbreeding being done. The dog you buy was probably inbred, and now you want to do it, to rush the process. Remember, there's a difference between line breeding and inbreeding. You are just asking for genetic problems when you do this, and the poor puppy buyer pays the price. |
Nancy, I agree with Breezeaway and Karen on this one. You might want to pick up Malcolm B. Willis book "Genetics of the Dog" to fully understand what line breeding and inbreeding really is and how it will different for each breed of dog. You have to look at the pedigree's to see this and the Parti's were not as inbred once they hit the states For the most part they have always been bred back to Yorkies. The Parti breeders have not been breeding Parti to Parti but have gone back into the Yorkie lines and they are not breeding father to daughter to get a Parti as you implied. The Biewer breeders in Germany still breed back to Yorkies (I am guessing because to many dogs died) but for some reason many people here in the states are only breeding Biewer to Biewer.
Even though the Parti's and the Biewers came from the same kennel in England they both took different paths in terms of inbreeding/linebreeding and the Biewer was much more inbreed (by Mr. Biewer) than the Parti's (you can see this in the pedigree's if you are interested). Breezeaway has all of this listed on her website along with the history of the Biewers and the Parti's.