my yorkie hair wont grow

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Patti

A picture will help. Some coat types grow slower than others. Do they both have the same type of coat? Or is one more silky than cottony?

I guess she's more silky and he's cotton like

[Frostbittenbuds]

My two are brother and sister and his coat has grown way slower than hers. I would say hers is twice as long. But it is growing! I just started to give him a top knot because its too long. They say it takes two years for their coat to come in? Plus mine are still very blk, I'm wondering if they are going to keep it or turn silver. Time will tell!

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Frostbittenbuds

My two are brother and sister and his coat has grown way slower than hers. I would say hers is twice as long. But it is growing! I just started to give him a top knot because its too long. They say it takes two years for their coat to come in? Plus mine are still very blk, I'm wondering if they are going to keep it or turn silver. Time will tell!

My girl is already starting to turn silver at the roots if her hair, I guess when it finally grows it will be silver

[Frostbittenbuds]

I believe so! Here's a pic of my two they are 10 mnths, you can see how different they are! His hair is way courser than hers!

[Frostbittenbuds]

I was just looking at your baby, could she be a red leg! I thought my male was at first. Look it up on here, pretty interesting.

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Frostbittenbuds

I believe so! Here's a pic of my two they are 10 mnths, you can see how different they are! His hair is way courser than hers!

They are so adorable!!! Have they hair always been long like that?

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Frostbittenbuds

I was just looking at your baby, could she be a red leg! I thought my male was at first. Look it up on here, pretty interesting.

OK thanks

[Frostbittenbuds]

Thanks they were so adorable as babies! No their hair has slowly grown in! Here's a pic of when I first got them. Excuse my big face in the pic! Lol!

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Frostbittenbuds

Thanks they were so adorable as babies! No their hair has slowly grown in! Here's a pic of when I first got them. Excuse my big face in the pic! Lol!

Lol so pretty!! I was just reading about red legged yorkies and she just may be one, I'm very disappointed because I really thought I was buying a fury yorkie like yours that's what I want, in not even sure if I want her anymore! I've been ripped off by the breeder

[Frostbittenbuds]

I hope you don't feel that way, give it time. I'm sure you are bonded with her. When I thought Elliot was a red leg I look at it as his color would be way darker and richer than others! Something different you know! I loved him anyway. Red legs get long enough hair for a top knot and way easier to groom!

[misskate]

Excuse my ignorance but what does red legged mean? I've never heard that expression pertaining to yorkies. Where have I been?? Illuminate me!

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Frostbittenbuds

I hope you don't feel that way, give it time. I'm sure you are bonded with her. When I thought Elliot was a red leg I look at it as his color would be way darker and richer than others! Something different you know! I loved him anyway. Red legs get long enough hair for a top knot and way easier to groom!

OK thanks I guess I do have to be patient, I've just never seen a yorkie with such short hair, i think if she did have long hair she would definitely look pure bred, both parents have long hair, its not floor length but it is long and her mother is a gorgeous blonde, she actually just had another liter recently and they are beautiful she even had one parti yorkie boy

[Ginas_babys]

Years back, I had a yorkie named Jess.She was beautiful and I had seen her parents, visited before we brought her home, I had seen her sibblings too and everything seemed legit and wonderful - but we had the same issue.
Her hair was super short and it just wouldent grow at all, infact, it stopped growing altogether when she was about 6 months old (and an inch and a half+ long) and she had other "defects" too, like a super long compact body, short legs, a long snout etc.As she grew, we could tell something was off, because the older she got, the more obvious those differences became.
We waited and waited and during that time we had testing done etc, but she was healthy so we just thought that her hair was growing alot slower and that she just wasnt an "up to standard" yorkie.We loved her just the same
Turned out that back in her lineage, there had been a dachshund, and the breeder had tried to "fix" her mistake by "breeding out" the mix.
Yes, she thought she could do that.We did tons of research and kept finding other buyers of previous puppies who were having the same problems, whilst other buyers were over the moon.
If there is a mix in the lineage, it will always find its way back into one (or more) of the pups of nearly every litter, and we happened to buy one of those pups Yorkie parents, yorkie grandparents, but still not 100% yorkie.
Doing research back then, we also learned than one litter of pups can have multiple studs, so whilst one pup can be purebred, its sibbling can be a mix..it depends on whose sperm was present at the time.

I also think that there seems to be a mix in her, I don´t know what it could be, but I think it´s deffinately there.I would look into it.She´s still super cute though!! Adorable!
Let us know what you find out

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by misskate

Excuse my ignorance but what does red legged mean? I've never heard that expression pertaining to yorkies. Where have I been?? Illuminate me!

From what I've read so far they basically have a different type of hair that is shorter than the standard. Some breeders use them to bring color back in their blood line, u can look it up up here, lots of info

[Dequell01]

Originally Posted by Ginas_babys

Years back, I had a yorkie named Jess.She was beautiful and I had seen her parents, visited before we brought her home, I had seen her sibblings too and everything seemed legit and wonderful - but we had the same issue.
Her hair was super short and it just wouldent grow at all, infact, it stopped growing altogether when she was about 6 months old (and an inch and a half+ long) and she had other "defects" too, like a super long compact body, short legs, a long snout etc.As she grew, we could tell something was off, because the older she got, the more obvious those differences became.
We waited and waited and during that time we had testing done etc, but she was healthy so we just thought that her hair was growing alot slower and that she just wasnt an "up to standard" yorkie.We loved her just the same
Turned out that back in her lineage, there had been a dachshund, and the breeder had tried to "fix" her mistake by "breeding out" the mix.
Yes, she thought she could do that.We did tons of research and kept finding other buyers of previous puppies who were having the same problems, whilst other buyers were over the moon.
If there is a mix in the lineage, it will always find its way back into one (or more) of the pups of nearly every litter, and we happened to buy one of those pups Yorkie parents, yorkie grandparents, but still not 100% yorkie.
Doing research back then, we also learned than one litter of pups can have multiple studs, so whilst one pup can be purebred, its sibbling can be a mix..it depends on whose sperm was present at the time.

I also think that there seems to be a mix in her, I don´t know what it could be, but I think it´s deffinately there.I would look into it.She´s still super cute though!! Adorable!
Let us know what you find out

OK thanks