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Originally Posted by YorkieRose A red leg used to be called a wire coat. It may have been a practive many years ago when soft coats were so hard to breed out and bring in a deep steel silk...times change in all areas of breeding and animal husbandary. The many breeders I talked with, Cher at Goldenray for one has said many times it is a practice of the past...such as close inbreeding..what was once a plus, is not a minus. Breeders used to give lepto and calcuim during gestation,
I have read several things in Joan and Anne's books that are not longer a common practice in 2006...I am in no way putting this foundation breeders down..but we no long do many things that were once acceptable...times change and so do breeding practices... |
Pat, after I logged off,I realized I should have added comments similar to your last paragraph. The foundation breeders certainly did give us a legacy that the Yorkie of today was built upon and I do not in any way take anything away from them. But this is no longer the breeding practice of many show breeders as you also pointed out.