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12-31-2007, 02:05 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pa. and wherever my furkids are.
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| What color will my Yorkie be? I have a 6 month old male Yorkie. He has a white head, light colored legs and black back. I think I see silver close to his skin on the back. I LOVE him no matter what color he will be but am hoping for a light colored Yorkie. |
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12-31-2007, 02:09 PM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2006 Location: Spain
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| Still wondering about my 5 month old!! LOL!! He seems to be multi colored at the moment!!! |
12-31-2007, 02:13 PM | #3 |
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| Unfortunately, only time will tell... All yorkies are different and Im learning that even the age and time their coats turn color will vary. Meka is 9 mo's and I cant tell if she's going right or left She has a lot of silver on her belly and some blondish/gold is starting to stand out on her head. Thats aside from the normal puppy black/tan color they start with..... If we could only see into the future
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12-31-2007, 02:22 PM | #4 | |
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Excerpts from "The Complete Yorkshire Terrier" by Joan Gordon “Breaking” Patterns As no two Yorkies ever seem to follow an exact transition pattern, or “breaking” as it has come to be termed, we have included the most general facts of this trying time: A puppy that is about 3 to 4 weeks of age that shows gold hairs on the top of its head when the black hairs are parted, will as an adult have a clear golden tan. If the coat texture is silky, the blue will have no intermingled colors. A puppy that has a wiry coat texture, with a tan that is a very bright red gold by four to five months, will as an adult do one of two things: First, if the puppy as it approaches five or six months, or at least by nine months, shows the transition from black to blue, the coat texture will soften to a silky texture. If the black coat does not show this transition to blue, the adult dog will retain the wiry coat which will never attain any great length. A puppy that has a bright orange-red tan by four or five months, will as an adult have a bright steel-blue, which may have areas of lighter or darker blue. This coloring shows the greatest tendency to have the tan placements run into the allotted areas for the blue. The texture will be silky. A puppy whose coat appears sparse or thin will, as an adult, have a thick, long coat of the correct fine silky, glossy texture. This coat’s growth is like a human’s hair, in that it is born with very little but by adulthood has an abundance of hair, the quantity having doubled and redoubled all during puppyhood (or childhood). Both colors will be totally clear. A puppy of around four months, that has changed the color on its head from black to gray to a very pale sooty color, will as an adult enrich all the tan areas to a clear golden tan. The blue will follow the correct manner of transition from black to blue starting to do so around six months. The coat texture will be the correct silky type. A puppy whose tan has been cleared of all the intermingled black or sooty hairs by four month age, and whose texture is fine and silky, will as an adult have correct colors. The tan of this puppy will probably enrich to a darker shade as an adult. A puppy approaching adulthood with a thick heavy coat that has pale cream colored legs, sooty head colors, with intermingled black hairs in tan at sides of head, on the ear and ear fringes, may as an adult diminish some of these black and sooty hairs. Its desired blue area may eventually achieve a transition from black to grey but it will never have a clear golden tan, or a dark steel-blue. The coat texture is either a wooly or cottony. A puppy approaching adulthood that has a black stripe in the center of its head, intermingled into the whiskers, sides of head and up into the top-knot, with ears that are move visibly black than rich dark golden tan, will as an adult have a tan that is never totally cleared. As the years pass some of the black and sooty hairs will diminish, but a check of the pigment under these intermingled areas will show that it is a dark gray which will never lighten. The black on this dog will show a few hairs that will some hears hence go from black to gray, especially at the lower hips and lower shoulders, when the hair is parted down through the upper layers. The coat texture will be woolly or cottony. A puppy approaching adulthood that has intermingled sooty or black hairs art the sides of its head running up into the top-knot, with a sooty area between the eyes, and who ears are a sooty tan, will have a gray body coat by around three years. The gray will be lacking a blue hue. The tan will always have some intermingled sooty hairs especially at sides of head, ear fringes and between the eyes. There may be some black or sooty hair on top of the muzzle but not in the foreface furnishings. The coat texture is cottony. A puppy of three to four months that has a very pale gold tan and whose black has gone to light silver-blue, will as an adult be a light silver-blue. A check of this puppy’s pigment will show that it is incorrect, as it will be light-gray flesh color. The texture will be silky. A puppy that shows coarse white hairs intermingled in the blue will usually shed most of these as it approaches adulthood. A puppy approaching adulthood, (or over a year) that has an inch wide stripe from the hair root out, then blue, with the tip and last inch or two still showing its transition from black to blue, will with age lose the blackish tips on the end as they are worn off or cut off as the coat achieves floor length. The dark stripe will remain although it may be lessen in width. It shows that the pigmentation of the hair is extremely dense at its beginning and does not diminish until it reaches this point. The tan will be clear, and the coat texture silky. A puppy that at some stage in its puppy hood shows a brownish cast to its blue or black body coat is passing through a stage in which there is a hormone imbalance. This condition will normally right itself, as it is purely a growth stage. All these are generalities and any puppy may follow a different path hope this helps
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12-31-2007, 05:26 PM | #5 |
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12-31-2007, 05:36 PM | #6 |
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12-31-2007, 06:20 PM | #8 |
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| welcome to yt it seems like mine change colors daily now that Joey is 2, he hasent changed at all, now molly, she has me stumped, her head is blonde, legs tan, back black ?? the color change is so neat
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