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Originally Posted by topknot Thanks Cher! You are a wealth of information. I didn't think that I had missed too much from my break. It all makes sense. I have never bred to a red legged and don't think I ever would (like you said we don't have to now and coat standard is really all half coat). I have seen red legged yorkies before and feel so bad that they will never have a silky long coat. I have the silk coated yorkies at home with that coat to the floor and some shy about 1/2 inch to touch floor and I love it. It is truly something to see, feel/touch - it is like ribbons of silk.
Wouldn't you get a litter of pups - if you bred a silky coat to a red legged some pup with silk and some with red legged, but the all would carry the gene for the red legged.
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One would assume the red leg is a recessive, if you cross a red to a silk unless the silk is carrying red recessive you should achieve all silk. That being said, I would think one would not consider breeding a red to a red or a red to a modified coat, at best one would have a mixed or all reds. And correct me if I am wrong the blue is actually a black with a graying gene modifier.