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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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Thank you first off. I have not personally ever bred a red leg so have not bothered with any genetic study, nor has the geneticists done a study.
But to quote Joan Gordon on a conversation many years ago (probably 20 LOL) when I was talking to her about breeding to one of her wire coated boys.
"You need to know you will most likely get atleast one black wire puppy." I laughed told her no thanks because that probably would be my most gorgeous one otherwise. LOL
In genetics we also play with plus and minus modifiers as well as a host of other things, so everything is not always simple recessives. No question that a black dog does not carry the graying gene so can not pass it, so all children would pick up the gene genetically, even if blue from the other parent. The coat texture can be quite another story with those modifiers in there as well as other genes affecting other genes.