Quote:
Originally Posted by Nancy1999  He's a beautiful boy, but I just want to point out that not every dog with silver coloring is a blue born. This is referred to as light blue and while it’s not the preferred dark steal blue of standard, there are no health problems associated with silver coloring or light blue. Also, there are degrees to the blue born condition. Your little guy seems to have a slight case with only sparse hair. Many have an eczema type of skin condition, no body hair and some are blind. This is still a serious condition and these dogs should not be bred no matter how pretty they are. Glad Hippo is doing well, and he found a great home! |
Thanks for this Nancy, for pointing out that the beautiful light silver coloring is NOT the single definitive factor with blues....there will be people everywhere with silver Yorkies that think they have a blue-born! And that mutated gene also packs terrible skin conditions and blindness too (like you pointed out)....and breeding blue-borns doubles up that mutated gene and each successive litter born will degenerate more and more with each breeding. I know the OP is not going to be breeding this baby, which is good....we dont want this mutated gene "contaminating" the gene pool....and the parents of this baby apparently carry the gene so they should NOT be used for breeding either.