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Originally Posted by GreenwoodBiewer  Deb,
You are correct, not all German breeders breed back to yorkies, you are also correct that breeding to a parti yorkie or a standard colored yorkie is diluting the biewer gene.. that is the whole idea.. to bring in some health to the genes of the Biewers as (in my opinion) they were to closely inbred without the proper steps taken to remove the unwanted "issues" from the breed.. the Parti's were also very inbred, but it was done by people that knew what they were doing and they removed the dogs from the breeding populations that had genetic problems and did not just keep breeding them just to get the color. Where Mr. Biewer focused on setting a specific LOOK, I believe the Parti's concentrated more on health first.. now they are working on the outer appearance.
In the world of dogs.. 26 years is nothing.. does the AKC accept a dog as a new breed just because it is bred "true" for that amount of time??? Would they consider the Biewer a Breed of it's own?? I have yet to hear anyone show me HOW just time alone and just breeding color back to color and setting type can make a new breed. I understand how you would want that to be the case, but I just don't see that it is. If you bred Parti's just with Parti's long enough.. are you saying THEY would also be a seperate breed???
Diana  |
You would have to check with the registry to see what they require for starting a new breed. Each registry probably has it's own set of criteria. Evidently the German registries are not as strict, and that, perhaps, is why the AKC does not recognize them.
Otherwise one could start a new breed and get it registered in Germany and then just transfer it to the AKC.
I guess you can start a new breed anyway you want to, but getting a registery to accept it is a different story.