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Originally Posted by Amazing Yorkies  Years ago, I went to an AKC seminar on Line Breeding, and it was explained that line breeding can be a useful tool to set the good things in a line, but can also bring out the bad things, very bad things! Only a knowledgeable breeder should attempt. When line breeding, you need to know your genetics, your flaws, your health background, and what you are trying to accomplish. NEVER should son be bred to mother. Sons get their x chromosome from his mother. Breeding basically the same chromosome.
I would say, be careful who is doing the breeding, and why. |
This should ONLY be done by very knowledgable breeders, that know the pedigrees of the dogs they are breeding for many, many generations back...... There are breeders that do this with absolutely amazing results, but when a breeder does not know their own limitations, and they think this is easy to do, they are setting themselves and their breeding program up for catastrophic results. As stated above, you magnify all the wonderful traits, but you also magnify the bad things too, so the line must be "clean". This takes years of studying pedigrees and lines and who throws a propensity to exactly what flaws. All our Yorkies have flaws, and you breed these flaws down or out, by breeding dogs where one is much stronger in an area....you can breed out bad coats, size, any number of faults and flaws...but when a breeder that does not know what they are doing, starts playing around with indescriminate breeding and genetics, you can end up with tragic genetic results. I am sooooo envious of those breeders, magnificent breeders, that have the wealth of knowledge that enables them to purify a line and CONSISTANTLY produce healthy, genetically sound, gorgeous Championship dogs. It is a magnificent, hard learned skill that is not to be underestimated or unappreciated! (When one completely understands exactly what goes into keeping a Yorkie looking like a Yorkie, and keeping genetic anomolies out of a line by knowing pedigrees better than you know your own name, then one can better appreciate and understand how breeders can look at all the byb and indescriminate, irresponsible, "ooopps breedings", and get so angry and discouraged....)