A 6 pound male with two five pound parents, a 4 and 5 pound grandparent and the same weight great grandparents' could be actually "smaller" than a 3 pound male with two 6 pound parents, and some 5s, 7s and 8s thrown back there. That is why it is so important to know both Yorkies background. You have to get into a lot of details so that is why most simply say the male should be smaller than the female in actuality, what they mean is the male and male's background should be smaller than the female. Yorkies vary so much in size that is why breeding the small ones is risky. A 4 pound female might have 10 pounders in her background and her own genes might put her in danger for having too large of a pup, no matter what the male weighs. |