| kpstoybox | 10-27-2009 05:51 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nancy1999
(Post 2856451)
I guess you'll get lots of different opinions on this, my view is that Partis and Biewers are different, and I'm personally opposed to people breeding the two together, and selling them for whatever they can market them for. Biewers may (or may not) have started out Parti's, but Mr. Biewer took it a step further, and began interbreeding these dogs, he has a purpose and a goal in mind, and seemed to have a real vision for what he thought was a new breed. Another thing, many people have noted is that the personalities of the Biewers seem much different than the traditional yorkie, and many people say that the Biewer is a much mellower type of dog. I think many people don't understand that scientists have not cracked the genetic code yet, it's a very painstaking process, just the fact that a single dog has billions of bases, building blocks of the genome, and these DNA labs only look at a few hundred makes me think it will be several years before we have any real understanding of breed differences. | The Biewer was the result of two "supposed" purebred Yorkies that carried the pie-bald gene. Same can be said concerning the Parti Yorkie. In fact...they supposedly came from the same kennel in England.
The Biewer has from the beginning...and is still to this day...bred to the yorkie in it's home country. It wasn't until American breeders got a hold of it that it is now considered (depending on which U.S. club you talk too) a mixed breed or something that evolved from the Biewer Yorkshire in that last 6 years.
Mr Biewer considered his dogs to be tri colored yorkies. Hense the name he gave them...Biewer Yorkshire a la Pom-Pon.
When my Biewer yorkie girl came into season last July...I had a choice between a few Biewer yorkie studs in my area or use my parti stud. Not one of the Biewer studs had any health testing, nor had, IMO...the qualities my Parti male has.
My Parti male has a normal bile acid test, OFA patella's, good scissors bite, cerf tested, gorgeous coat, nice size, good conformation, and he is stunning! And since my club and registry (IBC) has not closed the stud book and still allows the Biewer to be bred back to the yorkie...I have every right to breed my Parti to my Biewer female and still call them Biewers. At least this way...I bypassed the splitter stage...and I have a nice outcross litter of Biewers in my 1st generation of a new Biewer line.
And I can assure you...my two Parti sired Biewer pups will not be sold on the market for "whatever I can get". If either are not breeding and show quality...they will be placed at reasonable prices to good pet homes. |