Pedigree question
 

I just received papers from the AKC for my little girl. I am confused on the information, and can't contact the breeder.
Here is the question My little girl's parents have the same mother, but different fathers. Is this normal?
And the next thing is what are the #'s in parentheses under the names of her parents? If it represents the date of birth both mother and father have the same #'s so that would mean that her records are not accurate?:eek:
Thanks Dee

The date under the names are when she registered them.:)

Sorry I forgot about the mothers of the parents, that is called Line breeding, I don't know a lot about it, but I am sure someone on here can help you.:)

The # are when they entered the AKC stud book

funny story here. When I got my first AKC papers, I looked at the dates under the mother and father and thought AKC had made an oops so i called them and said, 'you are showing my yorkie older than his parents". they had a laugh and told me those numbers are as Mardlin said, the date they were entered into the stud book.

I did the same thing. However, I didn't call AKC, I called my breeder.....should have called AKC.

Thank you for that information.
My greatest concern however, is the fact that both parents have the same mother, is that normal?

That's more inbreeding, than line breeding. A bit close for me, however, it is done. It's done more so by the very experienced breeder when you want to know what faults you have in a line and it can bring out your type real quick. Relax and enjoy your new baby.

Mardelin,
I am not understanding what is meant by faults in a line. And what do you mean by your real type?
I don't mean to sound so stupid, but really concerned. I want to have babies,is that still possible with out having any problems?

When dogs have faults, they can't be shown or bred. Faults are, what ever is not on the AKC standard for yorkies. Some faults that can arise are off-bites, over the standard 7 pounds, curly coats, bad bone structure, ect. If a yorkie in that line has a fault shouldn't be bred. If those yorkies are bred, they carry on that family line, and the yorkies produced from that line will most likely have those faults as well. The only reason for breeding is to better the breed. When dogs are inbred, those chances of faults are increased. Same as when humans are too closely related...LOL
I think what Mardelin was saying is, that each breeder has a certain type of "look" they are breeding for. Whether they like yorkies with lightly shorter muzzles or yorkies with super glossy hair, each breeder's type of "look" is different.

Please YTers correct me if I'm wrong.

Do you want to breed her?
And just curious, what breeder did you get her from?

Incorrect, a fault can be as simple as a bad head carriage, a gait that is not wonderful, tail set just a wee bit low, a topline that is off.......ears to tall, a bit easty/westie, etc......I was told early on, that if you can find 3 faults in a dog, don't show it, because the judge will find more. Accept the faults you can live with, try to correct the ones you can't, by finding a stud that can compliment your female. Now it may be fault that may take several generations to breed it out and does the female have enough of what you want to take the time and effort to do it. Breeding is not just putting dogs together to have puppies, especially yorkies. You can't breed yorkies phenotype to phenotype like with poodles and know what you're gonna get. There's studying genetics, pedigrees (knowing each dog in that pedigree backward and forward); everything from temperament, structure, you name it. But, remember there is no perfect dog. That's why we breed, for the challange of improving on what we have.

For instance I have a female that went a bit light, and led with her head in the ring. Some days she showed like a dream and others she'd look at me like I'd lost mind for wanting to take her into the ring. When I bred her, I bred her to a stud with excellent head carriage, great showmanship and dark. I got what I wanted, he complimented her well and corrected what I wanted to correct.

I'm not trying to be nosey, but where did you get your baby (PM me if you don't want to answer publically). Unless you know her pedigree and problems that may be lurking in her background, I wouldn't chance it. That goes for the stud you plan to use too. Lots of responsibility with breeding. Of course you know all the testing that has to be done prior to breeding.

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I checked out your "about me". Dang you do airbrushing tatoo, wish you lived closer, always wanted to try it out.

I don't know how to pm.
I'm very new to this forum thing.
I will try to figure out how to do it