Yorkie weight and size
 

I am a new Yorkie owner. I have owned a Maltese in the past, but Rocco is our first Yorkie. I think he's going to be pretty big :(. His dad is about 3 pounds and his mom is about 7 pounds. We thought he would weigh in somewhere in the middle. But, at his 8 week check up, he already weighed 2.8 pounds!!!!! Anyone have a guess as to how big he will be as an adult?

MY quess is about 8 lbs. You take the 8 wk weight and triple it

check to other post a few down....there is a bunch of weight comparison's ..but axel was 2.9 at 12 weeks and now 14 months 5.4 lbs good luck

Why a sad face about him being bigger?

My puppy is 20wks old and only weighs 2.4lbs. According to the breeder, the dam is 4lbs and the sire, 3.5lbs and expects my puppy to weigh around 3 to 4lbs.

My Sophie is about 5-6 lbs, Peyton is probably going to be 8-9 lbs, I'm guessing since at 10 weeks he is 3.2 lbs. I'm glad! You have to worry more when they are tiny. Sounds like you have a healthy little guy too!

Piper was 2.6 lbs at 8 weeks. She is now 2 1/2 years old and weighs 6.7 lbs.

I would say around 7-8 pounds, which is a perfect size. I have a 7 lber and he is much more tough and sturdy than my 4.5 lber. I would definitely not be sad about having a healthier, more robust yorkie.

maddie is a small "11 pounder":D alot more yorkie to love!!!!!!!!!

My guess is between 8 and 9 pounds for your Rocco, just like my Winston.

I hate when people post with a :( face about being "bigger". You are STILL going to have a "small" dog and I'd hope you loved them regardless. An 8lb dog is still SMALL.

This is good information to have. When CaptainJack was 12 weeks, he was 2.5 lbs...the vet I was using told me he should not get over 5 lbs. That vet almost killed him during a neuter visit, but that is a story for a different day. He got up 8.5 lbs and my current vet did determine that he was overweight and that I was giving him too many treats and not enough exercise....so now he is 7.2 lbs and she says he is perfect and very healthy. So does that sound right to you all for a 4.5 year old.

There's no "right or wrong" per day. It all depends on your dogs body shape, etc. Jackson is 15lbs but he is very healthy, in shape and athletic. The Yorkie show "standard" is not to exceed 7lbs, but just because a Yorkie exceeds 7lbs, doesn't make them not a Yorkie... lots of them get bigger. :)

Jackson was 6lbs at 12 weeks old and is 15lbs at 2yrs old.

Riley was 2lbs 13ounces at 10-weeks. He weighed in at 6lbs 2ounces at 7 1/2 months.

Not sure when they stop growing........ I am feeling much more comfortable with him now, being 6lbs..... than when he was 4lbs.

A general guestimate for adult weight is to double the 12 week weight or triple the 8 week weight. There is also a Yorkie Weight/Growth chart -- but it too is a guesstimate. Yorkshire Terrier - Yorkie Puppy Growth/Weight Chart - watch us grow Rocco is off the chart, but if you triple the 8 week weight, it comes up to 8.4 pounds. The only problem with that is the early weights are notoriously inaccurate and can fluctuate a lot during the course of a day. Weighing right after eating may be several ounces more than when tummy is empty. So, I would wait til he is about 12 weeks old and then double that weight. Sort of average the two predictions. Still they can stop growing early or have a big growth spurt that can throw off the guesstimate.

Pls don't feel badly about him growing into a regular size yorkie! As Britster said, a show yorkie is not to exceed 7 pounds, but many, many Yorkies do. Any dog 15 pounds or under is considered a small dog. My Jack Russell is 11 pounds and she is still a lap dog. We don't want to grow them small as much as we want to grow them healthy and happy! Just love that baby boy no matter what size he might turn out to be! That does make a lot of us sad to see someone put that frown face next to a concern over a yorkie pup maybe getting a little bigger than an owner wanted. Sure makes me glad I am not breeding anymore. To be honest if someone did that about one of my pups, I would be tempted to get in the car and go get my pup back!