You said a mouthful.
The dogs will become lighter with age. Cut them down and they are dark again. They will get that wonderful dark racing stripe along the spine with age and breeding. They can get the gold dust or glitter with age. So many different things with this wonderful breed.
In many a breeding program you will find a combination of the lighter blue and the darker blue. Breed them too light and you have a problem breed them to dark and you have a problem. Knowing the correct combination for your program is the key. That is where it is helpful to find out as much as you can about the old bones in the dogs background. The coat should have a shimmer, luster to it that catches the eye and light. If you don't have that shimmer like silk or satin more then likey you have a dog that does not have correct coat. Remeber a yorkie can be a old as two to three before they have gone through this butterfly metamorphis. I was always told back when I started in the 70's that color and texture go hand in hand. |