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Originally Posted by BaxtersMommy  I love the sable gold yorkies! They are beautiful. I havent heard of any health issues with them. I am aware of the extreme piebalds and believe they should not be bred. But to say a parti is not healthy is a ridiculous, ubsurd accusation. Sorry, YTCA will never convince me of that. |
I agree.. as in anything, you need to know what's going in to know what's going to come out! Just because the Piebald gene is at work, does not mean you can not control to some degree the amount of color produced in your offspring. The German line of the tri colored yorkie (Biewers) were originally developed to have more of an Irish spotting pattern, rather than the random spotting pattern normally associated with the Piebald gene.. You can breed FOR that pattern.
One would want to breed AWAY from the extreme Piebald pattern, which COULD have issues related to deafness. If you look at the standard for the Parti Yorkie, you will see that it requires color around the eyes and the ears.
There are any number of breeds that have the piebald gene.. to say it is not healthy is just lack of education.
-Diana
