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Originally Posted by Lorraine  The puppy will be born black and tan. It can have a small spot of white which disappears into the gold furnishings as it matures. It is not born tri colour or gold. Yorkies do not carry a gene for the piebald colour which gives a parti colour nor does it carry a solid gold gene. Those born gold are not purebred.
This page is from the Yorkshire Terrier of AMerica website, it shows pictures of yorkies from fairly newborn as they mature. pictures
There is a lot of info on this site including how reputable breeders breed to breed standard and strive to breed for correct colour. FAQ is also a good page on there to visit.
This is their main page if you can't get there from the link I sent Yorkshire Terrier club of America
A reputable breeder will not purposely breed nor promote against a purebred breed standard, they will breed to the breed standard. |
Pictured are illustrations from the 1800's depicting terrier dogs who ran freely during that era. I do not believe that spaying and neutering were common practices in those days. It was the offspring of dogs like these, who began the Yorkshire terrier breed. Foundation stock of this breed may have been blue and tan in color but it's the recessive genes that they aquired from dogs like the ones pictured that are still showing up in the breed today, much to the surprise of some breeders! Most of these off colors require both parents to pass on the same recessive color gene in order for the pup to be parti, chocolate or golden, so it will take just the right cross to produce off colors (in lines that we don't know carry for off colors).
A dog who carries a recessive gene for color, will pass that gene onto half of it's offspring. If the carrier offspring reproduces, they will pass that gene onto half of their offspring ... this goes on for generation after generation and unless one of those carriers are bred to another dog who carries the same recessive gene, you'd never know that the recessive gene was there and was being passed on.
Off colored black and gold yorkies were once very popular, there are many black coated champions and they were heavily promoted and liked. These dogs lack the gene that dilutes their black coat to the desired dark steel blue color required by the standard yet they were not discriminated against like the parti, chocolate or goldens are?
I am proud that my dogs are AKC registered and proud that they come from generations of DNA'd dogs. AKC allows these colors to be registered, these colors being the same that have been showing up in litters since the beginning of the breed but were destroyed or quietly handed out the back door to a pet home prior to the year 2000 because they were denied registration (though some people including show breeders, registered the pups as black and tan even though they were parti or another off color).
The problem shouldn't be between the YTCA and breeders of AKC dogs who don't meet the
current breed standards, the problem should be between the YTCA and the AKC. Maybe the YTCA should start their own Coat color registry and disassociate themselves from AKC?
Reputable breeders shouldn't deviate from the standard, Reputable breeders won't cull or kill improperly colored offspring, Reputable breeders will sell or give away an off colored puppy with out papers ... I've heard all these things about reputable breeders before in threads on YT and it's been shown that Reputable breeders
have destroyed pups strictly due to being the wrong color and reputable breeders
have wrongly registered an off colored dog as a traditional colored one in order to get the AKC papers? So why are those breeders reputable but breeders of AKC non standard colors are not reputable?