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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Lol, I decided to google it, and it does mean the muzzle according to this website. Dog Terminology. So a short foreface or muzzle is a recessive gene, and if both parents have a short muzzle you can be 100 percent sure the offspring will have a short muzzle. So I guess I stand by my statement of the apple not falling far from the tree.  |
LOL, somebody save me from myself because I may be saying more than I know. But, not all traits are the result of a single gene, be it dominant or recessive. Some traits are polygenetic, some are sex linked and there are other characteristics of genes that make it not so clear cut.
I don't know if the foreface is a from a single gene...it may be. The only point I'm trying to make is that not all recessive traits follow suit like the pie-bald gene, which we're all more familiar with (as in 2 partis bred together will only produce partis).
Like in the case of coat texture. All the characteristics of an ideal Yorkie coat are from recessive genes. But it wouldn't be true at all to say that you will get 100% silky coats so long as you bred 2 dogs with a silky coat together.