Breeding for colour vs colour preservation?
I mostly know poodles, and I'm not a breeder, so this is just out of curiosity, but essentially, where is the line drawn between breeding for colours vs. preserving specific colours in a breed?
FCI recently opened up for more colours to be accepted for poodles, like parti, phantom, and brindle. Sable did not become an accepted colour, but it can appear even when pairing two dogs that are within standard colourwise. Now, I only know how people in my country do it, but most breeders here only breed a few specific colours. The breeder I'll be buying from only breeds brown, the breeder my family got their poodle from only bred silver, our first poodle came from a breeder that only bred black. The national poodle club has guidelines on which colour genes are more and less recommended to pair. Pairing brown and silver is considered a bad idea since it might dilute the brown. When I see the conversations here, in the poodle subs, and in other dog subs, it seems like that's not a normal practice and a lot of the times it seems like people have no idea what colour their poodle puppy is or has genes for. The way it's done here makes it easier for buyers to get a colour that they want, and it makes it easier for breeders to preserve the quality of the different colours, but it also becomes problematic if breeders only look for colour when making pairings and if specific colours get illnesses or stray too far from the standard since they're only being paired with others of the same colour/carriers of some specific colours.
There's obviously way more than just colour that makes breeders pick specific pairings, like health, titles, and COI. But I'm still curious where people would draw the line between preserving colours and breeding specifically for colours.