The growth chart is only meant to help you get an idea of what the puppies will weigh and kind of keep an eye on how they are progressing. There is no 100% method that I have found on what a weight will accurately be as an adult. I use the chart also but, I have found that some puppies will stop growing while others will totally show the chart wrong. Alot has to do with the bloodlines and the size of the dogs in the lines as well as the quality of the food you give both the puppies and the dam.
I have one little girl that is out of Moxie and Johnny both of who are respectively 6 and 5 1/2 pound, the puppy was 5 ounces at birth and by six weeks old weighed 2 1/2 pounds herself. She is one that I kept but at the age of now one year old she is finished growing and only wieghs 3 1/2 pounds.
As for the nose color, I've had babies born with a little spot of pink on thier noses which has disappeared. However I would think that if by the age of five or six weeks it is still showing then it might be there for good.
While the color if it didn't clear up would make me not want to breed that cross again the puppies that had pink noses would still make wonderful pets and should be nuetered or spayed before being place.
JMO and what I have found in with my own personal experience. |