Puppy weight and nose color
 

My female yorkie is about 7lbs and gave birth around a month ago. I have two 'fat" pups and two smaller ones. I really want to keep one of them and would like to keep the smallest one, but I've heard the growth chart isnt always accurate and you never know how big they will really get. Any ideas? Also, one of my pups has pink on her nose and its not solid black. Is this a problem or will it eventually change colors?

Nose color
 

I had a puppy born with a brown nose and it got darker as she got older. as to keeping one, wait until they a bit older like 12-16 weeks to sell them and then you will have a better idea of how big they will get. god luck.

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.

Do not always trust the weight chart. I have a girl who was charting 5 1/2 lbs and she is only 3 lbs 3 oz. so it was way off ;) As for the nose sorry no idea.

Myra

A pink nose is a fault and this dog can't be shown. As the above poster said it can still be a great pet

Pink nose
 

I have a litter of 3 pups, are 5 weeks old tomorrow. One of the boys has a pink nose?? Shouldn't it have turned black by now? I've never seen this before with a yorkie...?:(

It's just due to a lack of proper pigmentation .

As far as weight charts, it's not always accurate. Mimi had pups & the smallest boy is now the biggest out of all 5. I think it really depends on how much they eat & how they eat it. One of the girls ate very little (slowly too) & looked like her papa (3.5 lbs), she now weighs only 2lbs at 8 months old.