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04-05-2010, 11:23 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Flippin, Arkansas, United States
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| Coat Textures Can someone give me good descriptions, or better yet pictures of the different coat textures: Wiry, woolly, cottony and silky? I would like to better understand the difference. Is one more desirable than the others, and at what age can you tell which they might be? Thank you! |
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04-05-2010, 12:00 PM | #2 | |
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Then you can get into a modified silk or a soft coat textures...but again it's so left up to interputation as to what others will tell you. This is all how I interpute the textures Donna | |
04-05-2010, 04:02 PM | #3 |
YT Addict | Brooklynn, great post. I always said Derby had a cotton coat, but my husband would argue he had a silky coat. I, of course, felt I was right but after posting pictures on the board people are now telling me his hair looks silky. All be darned that a YT'er can see that from a picture on a short haired Yorkie! lol! You guys really are the best at what you do
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04-05-2010, 07:23 PM | #4 |
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| If you go to a hobby shop and get some embroidery thread, buy two types (wool and silk). Then take a few strands of each. Now wrap them tightly around your finger. See how the wool one looks - broken and frayed? And the silk one is smooth and shiny. That is how to tell the difference with a yorkie's coat - to label the texture. An old mentor told me this and I have heard it ever since. It works pretty well to understand it. A wooly or cottony coat will have a wave in it too when it is just washed and you are blowing out the coat. You will see lines that go against the coat. I hope this helps. It is so hard to tell for sure in photos. A silky coat will also feel and look like a satin ribbon - like girls wear in their hair when young. It will hang straight down, where a cotton coat is fuller and is puffy and won't shine as much if not at all. I hope this has helped. |
04-05-2010, 07:28 PM | #5 |
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| P.S. Darby is still young and he may end up with a silky coat. You just will not know forsure till he is older. I found my girl's photo of her coat. Now this is just a quick shot of her - very casual. Not show pose or anything like that. She is not even brushed all out her. But her coat is super silky. She is also a champion. Maybe her photo might help in some way. |
04-05-2010, 07:35 PM | #6 |
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| I read in the book the Joy of Breeding your own show dog and Ann Searne explained this when looking at a puppy coat...the hair on the legs will be sparse and thin on a silky coat and a pup with puffy and full hair on the legs will usually turn out a cotton or a soft coat. I have found that to be true. Just like the light test in the eyes when you take their picture...if in the picture the eyes are green ( I think LOL ) you'll have a silky coat and if the eyes are red a soft to a cotton coat. Again, it's all up to interputation....what I would call a modified silk coat someone else will say it's pure silk and what I call a soft coat someone will say it's a modified silk...LOL...I can pick the faults in my own dogs and tell ya but some just won't admit to what they have....again it's all in interputation.. Donna |
04-05-2010, 08:04 PM | #7 | |
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TopKnot -- VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!
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04-05-2010, 08:12 PM | #8 | |
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04-05-2010, 09:04 PM | #9 |
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| Topknot--- thank you, thank you, thank you...... I have thought Joey was a silkie but never could find a shampoo to make his hair shine.. He is very soft and his hair is longer and thinner than my friends who has a wire haired yorkie. But when you described the thread differences, I now know he is a wooly coat. He has long hair but it lookes like he has alot of frayed hairs... Very helpful... and to the OP, thank you!!!! this is a very good post.... |
04-06-2010, 06:58 AM | #10 |
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| Back to part of the OP's original questions, which I don't think anyone has addressed: How old are they (generally) before you can tell what their adult coat texture will be?
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04-06-2010, 07:54 AM | #11 |
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| I think I tried to answer it with if a pup has sparse coat on the legs it should be silk and if a pup has puffy and full hair on the legs could end up being a soft or cotton coat And when I mean a pup its generally a pup probably round 3 months in my opinion |
04-06-2010, 08:16 AM | #12 |
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| Hey Donna, I have a pup that I'm holding on to. As a pup his coat was just so, dull and cotton feeling.....thought to myself ....now this pup is definately going to be petted out. His new growth is coming in a beautiful steel blue....silky and reflecting light (another way to tell if your dog is silk). Is it slow growing....absolutely. He's now 7 months of age....gorgeous, structure and movement....beautiful head....if you remember Denny and and his gorgeous head (a bit of a clown), but a beautiful dog....well this is his offspring.
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04-06-2010, 08:20 AM | #13 | |
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04-06-2010, 08:22 AM | #14 | |
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04-06-2010, 08:24 AM | #15 |
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| so the hair on his legs were thick and wooley? |
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