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Originally Posted by concretegurl  Breezeaway,
1. What do you mean DNA-I don't want to start another debate on the reliability of Canine DNA tests, but I'm curious the company you use and the type of test you do.
2. Health test- you do genetic testing per the line and the individual dog?
3. Also I read something about Biewers having a general decline as they were being inbred so much. I was wondering what is the solution to out crossing...breeding Biewer to distant Biewer isn't enough at this point it has to be back to standard Yorkie (Parti) or something?
***Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post personal things on here I can see how maybe some of my questions may be rather personal, and I understand how many breeders don't like to disclose some things. I'm not a breeder, I'm just genuinely curious of the methodology and the genetic research. |
I mean AKC Parentage DNA on each dog.
Health testing on each dog that I have. Bile acid tests, blood work , Hips, Patellas etc etc
The Biewer Clubs Here in the U.S. must be very careful about all the linebreeding they are doing within the Biewer, as the gene pool was too small to begin with to start such a venture.
In the years to come they will see the effects of all the Line Breeding that is being done within the Biewer. Liver shunt and seizures are starting to really show up in more dogs and puppies here lately. Almost every Breeder or owner I have spoken with has had atleast one Biewer that has seizures. Because of the health issues in the Biewers, many are either quitting breeding, selling out and getting Parti Yorkies or they are breeding the Parti Yorkies into their lines to get away from all the inbreeding.
Germany does not practice the breeding of only Biewer to Biewer, they allow the traditional color yorkies to be bred into the lines. Germany admits that they do not have enough unrelated and healthy biewer lines.
If Germany feels they don't have enough lines to breed only biewer to biewer, why do the the american breeders feel they have enough unrelated and healthy lines? You have the same lines as the german breeders.
In Germany the health issues in the Biewers popped up. That came from the inbreeding, from breeding biewer to biewer with not enough unrelated and healthy biewer lines. More and more breeders in Germany no longer breed the biewer, because of the health issues. And other german breeders feel it is time to breed their biewers back to the yorkshire terrier (and they do). They feel the Biewer is a Yorkshire Terrier, only the color makes the difference.