[QUOTE=yorkielady06;3211159]That is correct he is standard colored according to the written standard. But if I am showing him in the ring to evaluate breeding stock then I am doing what I should be doing. That was just my point on that. It is what I do afterwards that will determine ethics. If I use him on my breeding stock to improve my lines then I have done as the AKC lists. If I use him with other quality females that have weaknesses where he has strengths and vice versa then that is good, right? So if I am honest and ethical up to this point I would then, if ever approached by a show/hobby breeder to use him at stud, would disclose his parentage.
Everyone is assuming that just because I have him in the ring I intend to be unethical and stud him if he champions to the "pure blue and tan" line
. Which may have never been my intention in the first place.
But lets look even further. How many show lines out there are "pure BLUE AND TAN" ? How many have the Nikkos lines? or other proven parti producers in their lines? How about black and tans or black and golds? What about the blues? the chocolates? the golds?
The Yorkies have so many serious life threatening conditions and debilitating conditions that are linked to genetics, I for one wish people were as passionate about stopping those as they are about keeping the colors out of their lines or in them for that matter.
How many of the breeders or exhibitors on here have done testing on all their stock? If so, what tests? When you go into a ring with a dog or breed one , have they passed OFA or Penn hip, CERF, bile acids, LFTs, ect? On every dog? Should that not be mandatory? If we preach about health being of utmost importance then put your money in that dog and prove it before showing as part of the evaluation of breeding stock. But alas that is my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I assume you mean their breeding stock. but I wholeheartedly agree, although OFA your dog needs to be 2yrs old, and yes as an exhibitor if you show earlier than 2yrs old, you do take the risk that they might not pass OFA, and then you have sunk dollars into a dog/bitch that you won't breed. CERFS should be done annually, so your dog can pass clear two or even three years in a row, and whoops year 5 after having been bred x times doesn't pass.
There are good reasons to show pups, some of which is to provide showring experience, training if you will for that venue, get some evaluations from fellow breeders etc on your pup.
Question I'm not sure what a LFT is?
And I do know heartache of having invested lots of time and money, only to have one of what I hoped would be a great bitch not mature to our expectations. She still will be OFA'd and all health checks done, because this information then forms part of the database on our breed. And just so that no-one is confused my breed is the BRT.
I do own and show a Yorkie, but as far as breeding goes, my breeder will determine (along with me) who and when he will be bred. And he will have all the health checks done too. He is my agility dog, and why I bought from my breeder and this one particular "working" dog line.