I'm not a breeder but I'm very good friends with my breeder and I lived down the street from her for 13 years before moving to South Florida...My Bailey RIP was a singleton and so is my Ivy Lou who is only 10 mos....But I paid very close attention to my breeder cause I just love the Yorkie breed and she is my friend....she lets her Moms call the shots when it comes to weaning the puppies and during the weaning she would put dry puppy food mixed with goats milks & water to make it a mesh (soft) in the whelping box...she started doing this as soon as she seen Mom start nipping or growl at the pups when they tried to nurse from her...Moms why of saying no more tit for you LOL...weaning time...so when she went to fed the pups, she also made a bowl for Mom...she fed Mom with the pups...once the pups seen mom eating they wanted to see what it was...and they would go over and stick their little noses in it and quickly realized that was yummy and they were hungry cause Mom wasn't nursing as much....She said usually by 10 weeks sometimes sooner pups are completely weaned and Moms milk is almost all dried up...she says once pups are eating the mesh good and getting their teeth, than she starts offering puppy dry food that she put in a blinder to make the kibble smaller for the pups...and keeps a bowl of that in with pups 24/7 and water but removing the water at night when she went to bed...but still offering the mesh 4 times a day...she says usually by 12 weeks pups can eat the kibble without putting it in the blinder...She lets mom run the show, she just offers the food for them when mom starts weaning...hope this helps...good luck with your new baby boy.
