How long until your yorkie coat turned fully?

[bellasmomok]

Originally Posted by princesselle

Your baby looks beautiful in that picture! My baby is 5 1/2 mo and very similar coloring. Where did you get that adorable crown for her? She's a princess.

I think you're talking about the picture of Bella I posted??

If so, I got her tiara clip at Trixie + Peanut (online) here: Crystal Crown + Bone Hair Clips dog Accessories + Jewelry - Hair Bows + Barrettes - trixie + peanut (It's a barrette, and I just poked it through her topknot.) It's Austrian crystal and metal, so it's a bit weighty, but not so much it wouldn't stay (though I doubt it would have stayed without threading it through her banded topknot!)

Thank you for your compliments....believe me, she thinks she's a princess too!

[QuickSilver]

This has given me some hope that Thor might get some more gold on his head, since he is 2 1/2. He is super, super silver at the moment.

[IzzyRudy]

Yorkies change colors at different rates. I was told by a knowledgeable breeder, though, that the longer it takes for the color to "break", the longer they will hold their color.

[manolos mom]

Originally Posted by bellasmomok

My baby will be 8 mo. old in 2 days, and she started turning quite awhile ago....it started maybe when she was 10 or 12 weeks. Now, her back is silvery with about 1 1/2 to 2 inches of puppy cottony black on the tips. I think the black looks kind of funny and it's so cottony, not like the silvery hair at all, that it tangles easier. So, the last time I went to the groomers, I had them trim ~1/4 inch all over (she said she couldn't do that with the clippers, that it would make her hair shorter than I wanted, so I asked her to hold the hair out and trim it like humans get haircuts! ) So, we're slowly working the puppy black off...I don't want to just do it all at once since I want her to stay in a long coat. Also, her head has black tips, silvery white centers, and champagne blond roots. I had her trim up her head too, but there are some spots where the black still goes all the way down to the root, so it will take a lot longer. Here is a picture we took of her at 7 mo. old so you can see what she looked like before she had her trim (see the silvery blue in the center of her back and the champagne at her top know?):

What a cute pie. Love her tutu...

[bellasmomok]

Originally Posted by IzzyRudy

Yorkies change colors at different rates. I was told by a knowledgeable breeder, though, that the longer it takes for the color to "break", the longer they will hold their color.

What does this mean...the longer they will hold their color?? I thought once a Yorkie's coat changed, it stayed that color pretty much from then on....though I've heard of some Yorkies who have gone through several changes by the time they are 2 or 3 even. But still, I've seen lots of older Yorkies that still have that blue/tan Yorkie coloring.

I have heard, don't know if it's true though, that the smaller ones tend to change colors quicker than the larger ones. Bella is 4 lbs., so that would seem to hold true for her, though my aunt's Yorkie is 5 mo. old today and is barely over 2 lbs., and she has just started changing colors on her face only and nowhere else. Sooooo.....maybe it's just each one changes at his/her own pace no matter the size??? (When I first got Bella, I was so intrigued with this color changing business, and I was so anxious to see what she'd end up looking like. Then, I'd had a picture of what I wanted her to look like in my head, but strangely, my picture has changed over time, and I've realized that it doesn't matter what she changes to, she will always be beautiful to me!)