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Originally Posted by Pinehaven  Sorry, I guess you didn't see my winkey face but no, I didn't read your  face as a surprised smile, I read it as an OMG ... EEK.
Maybe she intends to breed the dog to a silky coated parti in order to improve the texture, just like other breeders will breed a soft coated black and tan to a silky coated, washed out blue and tan to improve the steel blue coloring? You know, breeding outside of the standard in order to produce the standard? Just a guess  |
I don't think that will work
I have always heard
not to breed the wavy haired dogs. Do you have any examples of breeding a wavy to a straight silk where none of the pups or grandpups showed the wavy hair? I'm thinking "
no." I would not breed a wavy haired dog to a nice straight silk -- why would I want to ruin my nice straight silk? That is the epitomie of coat! I think she is sort of showing us her example that it does follow the line (from dad to daughter here). Tell you the truth, I don't have any washed out blue & tan dogs, so I haven't ever tried to bring color into a line as you describe either.
Here's some actual genetics on curly/wavy/straight hair.
If the male dog she is talking about has very wavy hair it may be actually
curly hair. A curly (CC) & straight (SS) will produce all
wavy (CS) hair pups. If it is just a wavy hair (CS) then if it is paired with a straight-haired dog (SS) -- you can have CS and SS --
wavy & straight haired pups. In no situation do you wind up with all straight haired pups.
I think this is why it is always (that I know of anyway) recommended NOT to breed Yorkies with wavy or curly hair. (Simplified version)