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Originally Posted by BlondieGirl87 I understand that there are throw backs...however, Its hard for me to believe that a 18 pound yorkie came from parents within the standard or that a 13 pound yorkie came from parents within the standard. The males are supposed to be smaller than the females when breeding anyway, so if you had a 7 pound female which is the largest you could have for breeding purposes if you wish to maintain the standard, what's your male going to be 5-6 pounds? And that's a pretty big male for breeding and that's going to product a 13-18 pound yorkie 
I'm not saying there aren't good breeders out there who have tiny ones on occasion or have big ones on occasion but I would say that most of the people who have large yorkies (meaning over 7 pounds) if you traced their roots you'd probably find there were bigger yorkies, meaning over the standard for yorkies, that were bred in their bloodlines. |
That is true but sometimes it is the grandparents or the great grandparents were larger. Chachis parents were 5 and 6 lbs and he is 10.