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Originally Posted by YorkieRose Don't feel bad..I had never heard it either until this year. I have asked many top show breeders how to bring back good rich color when some were getting too light...and not one has ever mentioned a red legs...I was told to breed to the most correct blue and gold to improve color...so I am just as stumped. LOL
PS..I have no doubt read every Yorkie book written..never heard the term Red legs...anyone have an old Ethel Munday or Martello books, what do they say..? My friend, Shirley's mom was good friends with Ethel and she taught her all she knew..no red legs there..I am not trying to start a fuss..seriously, I want to hear breeders like Parkside, Durrers, Stratford, Rothby, Tiffany, Tyava, Goldenray, Blumoom, and more agree this a common practice. |
Hi Pat. You really don't hear about using red legs as a rule anymore because it is not necessary.
Way back when... We had cotton coats, wooly coats, wire coats (red leg category) and some silk coats. You remember the days Pat (dating us here). There were very few silk coats and mostly they were towards the silver hue. Breeders were working hard to get silk coats that were dark blue. They had very little to work with. Some were breeding soft coats to the light silk and some were breeding wire coats to the light silk. This is all they had to work with. Thanks to wonderful breeders like the Wildweir twins, they helped create the Yorkie as we see it today. They didn't have dark blue silk back then, they had to create it, which is what dedicated breeders do.
Now we have dark blue silk and you just breed to the correct dog. Breeding to anything else just brings that incorrect problem into the gene pool. I have never kept a soft coat or wire coat personally. I've never even bred a wire coat and the only soft coats produced here was way back when they had to be used in a breeding program. Why bother, half our standard is coat, so the dog is already half wrong. I breed silk dogs and try at all times to work for the density of color and I get a tremendous amount of dark blue and very few that go medium.
So each breeder has to do what they see as best but in today's world with all our dark blue silk coats, there would be no reason for me to add any other problem coats into my breeding program. So you are quite right Pat, you always just breed to the correct blue/tan.