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CKC REGISTERED FAMILY RAISED RESPONSIBLE BRED YORKSHIRE TERRIERS

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How Parti Yorkies Came to Be ...by Sue White

CKC REG Parti Colour Yorkshire terrier

 

Many  skeptical Yorkie owners and breeders, absolutely refuse to believe that  the Parti colored Yorkie is anything other than a recent "behind the  kennel bred" mutt. They say: "There is NO white gene in our Purebred  Yorkie`s" or "There is NO record of any Yorkie ever breeding to a white  or parti colored dog" or "No show breeder who's been breeding and  showing for 30 or 40 years, has ever produced a parti colored Yorkie."   I'm going to try to educate people on color genetics, recessive genes  and how the Parti gene remained hidden in the Yorkshire terrier breed  for years.

 We know from our Yorkie history, that early records  were not kept on the foundation breeding stock. I seriously doubt, that  back in the days where spaying and neutering was not done, that the  farmers and working class families didn't have the "occasional"  unplanned pregnancy in their canines. If anything, it happened more  then, than it does today. History also notes that the Maltese was bred  to the Yorkshire terrier to enhance the texture and length of the  Yorkshire terriers coat, since most of the early dogs thought to have  started the breed, were broken haired dogs with shorter, coarser coats.  It's documented in some of the earliest records that the foundation  stock of our breed, were cross-bred dogs and dogs without pedigrees  (who's heritage is unknown). Even if these dogs didn't look parti  colored they could very well have harbored the recessive Parti gene in  their DNA makeup. Whether their mother/father, grandmother/grandfather  or great grandmother/great grandfather ... was parti colored, no one  would really know, since record keeping at that time in history, was  little to none.

It is documented, that in the early 1900's, there  were some breeders who tried to promote the White Yorkshire Terrier as  well as the silver yorkie who was born with absence of any tan. Ernest  Hemingway's Grandfather owned a white Yorkie named Tassel in the early  1900's and there are published writings during that same time  period, indicating white Yorkshire terriers were being shown at various  State agricultural shows.

Some of the most highly  regarded breeders of this breed, have produced parti and other off  colors in their own lines.  Early Kennel Club and American Kennel Club  records, lists "dark tan," "black," and  "blue" as some of the colors  seen and registered in the Yorkshire terrier breed. 

Off colors have been seen since the beginning of the breed and the recessive genes continue to appear today.


 

The  Parti gene can only be expressed if a parti gene carrier is bred to  another parti gene carrier. A carrier will look like a traditional  colored Yorkie but is born with maybe some white on it's chin, chest  and/or feet. In this case where a parti carrier is bred to another parti  carrier, 25% of the offspring will be traditional Yorkie`s (not carrying  the gene), 50% will be traditional colored Yorkie`s who do carry the  recessive parti gene and 25% of the offspring will be actual Parti  colored dogs. AKC has allowed Parti colored Yorkie`s to be eligible for  registration since 2000. Prior to that time, parti colored offspring  were normally given away without papers or destroyed (yes, destroyed). I  know of several breeders who have destroyed a litter of "surprise"  parti colored pups.  

The most prolific known line of Parti Yorkie`s  is the "California line" or Nikko's line. These dogs are all  descendants of an AKC Champion named Nikko's Rolls Royce Ashley. Two  dedicated breeders in California, fought to get this line of Parti  colored Yorkie`s, registered by AKC. This line of Parti carriers and  Parti colored Yorkie`s comes from a well known show breeder who's been  breeding and showing for over 40 years. Forty-two litters and  generations of dogs from this line were DNA'd prior to AKC's approval of  registration.  


The Yorkshire Terriers breed standards have  changed over the years. The "Standard" color is slate blue and tan, any  other color is considered to be "Off Standard." Until the new color  disqualification rule went into effect, off standard colored, black and  tan and black and gold yorkie`s have entered the show ring and won their  champion status. Standards have changed and not only do we now have  smaller sized dogs than in the late 1800's, but some of our "off  standard," darker coated dogs have been allowed into the show ring.  

Hopefully  these types of changes along with a better understanding of color  genetics, will open the door for the continued, growing acceptance of  the Parti colored Yorkie. Parti Yorkie`s ARE RARE, they are hard to find  and as supply and demand goes, they do cost more than the traditional  colored Yorkie.  

Parti colored Yorkie`s are healthy animals and  they are not a genetic freak of nature as some people, groups or  websites suggest. In this day of scam artists and people looking to make  a fast buck, my suggestion is to buy from reputable breeders who have  their dogs DNA'd and/or their dogs are from known lines of Parti  producing dogs. There are other Yorkie lines of parti carriers and  producers but the California/Nikkos line is the best known. So do your  research, get references and have an open mind. This gene has been in  some of our Yorkie bloodlines for years and years and years ... and if  you think it's not possible, don't be surprised if one day, your own  purebred  


Yorkie produces a pup of a different color!


 


Parti Colour Yorkshire terriers

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