Yorkie puppy born a blue/chocolate color

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Blue Yorkies are born silver or blue they can turn a more chocolate color as they age then may mature out to black, blue steel , some may have a loss of hair and aquire problems and some do not. I have seen both a healthy full grown and not so healthy full grown blue born baby. Some will have a full coat and some will have sparce hair as an adult.
Hope all these babies have good health
I have heard and read a all blue baby will most certainly die the first few weeks if not days.

The more color you got on them besides the blue the better. Did they have any white markings on them?
I am sorry were they males or females?

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Originally Posted by shelfy

Hello, I am new to this site but am blessed to have found it. I am hoping someone will be able to help me with something I heard about newborn yorkie pups. I have a 4 lb female that was bred to a 3 1/2 lb male. She delivered one puppy 3 days ago. The puppy seems to be doing well, gaining weight, strong and active. This puppy is a blue/chocolate color and I have never seen this before so I started trying to find some info on it. One site said that a "blue born pup" will only survive for a few days and if it does live, that it will eventually loose all of its hair and get leathery skin that is very painful to the dog. They recommended that I have the pup euthanized. This is very disturbing to me and I want to find out all that I can before even considering doing this. Any info or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Michelle

A friend of mine has just had a litter of 3 Blue born pups and 2 Traditional. It was a HUGE shock to BOTH of us. We hope they are very healthy and stay alive.They are Blue with some chocolate color.