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Yorkie Coats, Colors, Growth Chart Discussion Discuss the Yorkie Coats, Colors, and Puppy Growth Chart thread here... |
boy, this is really helpful! Thank you admin. |
Someone asked, and I asked too, if someone could post an actual picture of a silky vs a cotton coated fullgrown Yorkie, but none were ever posted. I think it would be helpful to those of us with our first Yorkie to determine what types of coats our babies have. |
Eye Color I didn't put this in about different coats & eye color. I did a search tonight for this. It's called Mydraisis and Fundus Refley or coat type and eye color. The pup must be around 6 months old or more. Go into a dark room & shine a flashlight in their eyes. It's like you are seeing back of eye. If the eye color is a warm color - red, amber, gold, orangish yellow that means a cottony coat If the eye color is a cool color - green, yellowish green, turquoise, blue that means a silky coat Cottony coats mat more & are very beautiful where silky coats are cool to the touch, easier to care for, & reflect light almost like metallic. |
Please thank cacbeary, as she compiled all this information for us. Also, thank feminvstr (her Web site is http://www.yorkiepassion.com) from which the Toy Breed Puppy Growth chart came from. |
I have a question about the white toe nail at 7 mo of age. What did you mean about absence of pigmentation? |
Thanks! |
Thank you everyone who had somehthing to do with all that great information.. I didn't know this: A puppy that has a wiry coat texture, with a tan that is a very bright red gold by four to five months, will as an adult do one of two things: First, if the puppy as it approaches five or six months, or at least by nine months, shows the transition from black to blue, the coat texture will soften to a silky texture. If the black coat does not show this transition to blue, the adult dog will retain the wiry coat which will never attain any great length. And its very helpful to me as my Lilly has such a coat.. and I was not happy with it, but I can see her coat changing to Blue already, so now I know it will soften.. Thanks Again :p |
Thank you everyone. This was very helpful and I really appreciated all the information and the time each person took to put it together. Thanks again. |
Thank you everyone for working on these . It is very interesting to read . |
This is helpful! Thanks I still would like to see a pic of both. |
Length of Coat Thanks for all of this good information. I don't have a Yorkie, but I am researching the breed to find out more information about whether I'd like to get one. My main obstacle is the length of the coat. The breed standard I've seen has a very long coat, and I would prefer to keep the coat shorter (more like the way a yorkie puppy looks). Is it okay to keep the coat short, or is there something wrong with doing that? |
Of course, you can keep them in a puppy cut. Many people keep them even shorter! You can keep your yorkie in any way that you are comfortable in caring for the coat! :) My little Muffin had about every length you can imagine. ;) |
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soft/silk 4 Attachment(s) here are some pics of soft coats vs. silk coats. :) First 2 are soft, second 2 are silk..enjoy. |
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Dazzlin - Well now - you have really confused a lot of us. We are all very used to reading about wooly, cotton, and silk coats. And - I think most of us understand basically what each of these coats is like. (I pesonally have never come across the terms you are using.) Please get back with the terms you are using and tell us what each of these coats is like - as far as combing, matting, growth, etc. Thanks a lot. Carol Jean |
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Well let's see, a soft coat is probably what you are considering a "cotton" coat, I have NO CLUE what a wooly coat is. A properly cared for soft coat will not feel like cotton though, it can be hard to tell from a silk coat except in color, obviously, and slight texture variation, however it grows MUCH more quickly, and there will usually be much more of it than a silk coat. A hard silk would be what is described in the New Complete Yorksire Terrier as a darker almost black coat that breaks easily and grows slowly, usually the gold will be VERY dark reddish, but with care and over time, the coat will become more silky...it is not soft, it is more coarse. A Modified coat is neither soft nor silk, but a combination of both, and will be dark, head will be sooty and take some time to clear, maybe over 2 years. Silk is obvious. All of these coat types can eventually become a shade of Gray to blue to silver depending on which type of coat, or softer coats can stay black. Soft coats won't usually reflect light depending on how you care for it, and will have a reddish cast in the sunlight. The average pet owner with a soft coated dog will not reflect light, and it will not feel cool to the touch...silk will. |
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Well I am VERY glad I have never seen cotton or wool coats! |
Dazzlin YT, the first photograph of your yorkies is the spitting image of my girl! How old is your pup there? I am so curious to know what her colors are going to be? Is she likely to turn a light gray? My girl is almost 9 months and still very dark with the exception of her face as it's turning gray and gold. Any insight about what is to come would be wonderful. Thank you and Happy easter! |
color i have a 4 year old bitch and she is just all gold. I put her down into a snauser trim a month ago and her back in coming in a dark orangeish, brown Is this color a signal for improper color gene and what colors to look out for she was purchased from a well known breeder |
I wonder how big my puppy will be. She weighed 3 1/2 pounds at 10 weeks. She was one of the bigger ones in the litter. ( I picked her because she was interested and playful without being super excited-- not for size or color). I see that she is not even on the chart for size so I thought she might be about 8 pounds. When I told the breeder that she said " I don't see how she could be that big, her father is 4 pounds and her mother is 6 pounds. Have any of you found that your puppy who was big according to the chart ended up being smaller? |
Never read, but... I also might have missed it, has anyone ever seen or had a PURE white Yorkie? Not one with Gold, or any other traces of other colors, just pure white? Is there even such a Yorkie? If so, how much do they cost? I sure am interested to know if this cutie even exists! Thanks, Joy ;) |
Hi Joy, My name is Joy also. It is a fun name |
Weight Charts A good rule of thumb for weights is triple the puppy's weight at 8 weeks, and double the weight at 12 weeks, to give you a decent estimation of the adult weight. The weights of parents are a good indicator, but not always accurate.... Both parents have their own genes that they pass on - that's why you should talk to your breeder about the Sire and Dam's littermates and parents, and previous litters of the same mating pair (if any). A good breeder really knows their lines and can give you a good prediction of weight (though, a prediction is always just a guess - you really never know). My question is - Why do all the Yorkie weight charts I see online go from 2 - 6 pounds as adults? If the standard is 4 - 7 pounds, wouldn't the charts at least cover that and give a little room for "error" on both ends (Say, if you want to show 2 pounds below the standard, wouldn't you show 2 pounds above the standard and go from 2 - 9 pounds)??? |
1 Attachment(s) So based upon this picture taken of my Mia... she should have a silky coat then???? ....please say yes, please say yes, please say yes ;) She is 11 weeks now and her head is turning super grey.... that's normal too right? |
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