About Different Yorkshire Terrier Exotic Coat and Eye Colors!
This page gives a simple explanation on different Yorkie Colors.
Many of these color Color Genetics from a recessive genes.
What is a Traditional (Classic) Yorkie?
Traditional (Classic): Puppies start off black and tan and change as they grow older.
What is Parti, Biewer and Biro Yorkie?
Only The difference between Parti and Biewer is bloodline.
They both came from two traditional yorkies that carried a recessive gene which produced this tri-color yorkie.
Both the Nikko's and the Biewer line of Tri color yorkies trace back to Streamglen Shaun.
Parti: Black, white and tan color.
Biewer: White mixed in on the body and on the tip of the tail, and always a tan face.
Biro: White and chocolate brown coat.
Parti: is recessive to the dominant “solid” color, there for must be present from both parents to produce a true parti.
What is a Chocolate Yorkie?
Dark Chocolate: Full body deep chocolate never mixed with any gold or lighter browns on face.
Chocolate: Head and legs brown may have other shades of browns on face.
Dilute Chocolate: Born Brown and lightens as they grow older to a white brown.
Light Chocolate: Full body all brown or mixed with different tones of light brown.
Chocolate is recessive to black.
What is a Blonde and Gold Yorkie?
Gold: Golden coats may vary in shades from deep gold tones to platinum blonde.
Golddust: white and gold variations.
Sable: Red brown and golden tan.
What is a Black or White Yorkie?
Black is a dominant color and is relatively easy to accomplish by breeding a black to any other color, you will most likely have some black offspring. If you breed a black to any other color you will get 50% black pups.
White is a recessive gene and produced when two whites are bred together, or when one parent is white and bred to a white factored dog. White factored dogs may be any color hence masking the color white although it is there and can be pulled out when bred to either a white dog or another white factored dog. A true white, will be a pure snow color, there will not be any shading to the coat, otherwise this places the dog into the cream category.
What is a Merle Pattern?
Blue Merle: Tricolor colors of (white, black, brown) mostly brown on head and legs.
Tweed Merle: Tricolor colors of (white, black, brown) all over body.
Silver Merle: Bast coat 50%+ silver color with Merle patten.
Red Merle: Two tone red and orange or with white color rare.
Blackberry Merle:Base coat 50% + Black, with spots of merle pattern.
​Lilac Merle: Chocolate with a touch of purple/Blue hue color, with merle pattern + Light brown nose.
Chocolate Merle:Chocolate merle pattern all over body + Chocolate nose.
Gold Merle: Gold color merle pattern.
Blueberry Merle: Base coat 50% + white, with spots of merle pattern.
Chocoberry Merle: Browns shades of chocolate creates the merle pattern.
Mulberry Merle: Sable coat, white and merle pattern.
Goldberry Merle: White and gold coat creating the merle pattern.
Diamond Point Eyes: Most common in merles, sections or specks of blue present eye mixed in with the standard eye color.
Blue Diamond Eyes: Rare completely blue color with one or both eyes.
Merle: This is another dilution gene, but instead of diluting the whole coat it causes patches of dilution. Merle is a pattern not color, which can come in many patterns of colors.
Exotic Merle Yorkies Eyes Coloring!
What is a Brindle Yorkie?
Brindle:When a brindle is mated to a non brindle 50% of the offspring will be brindle. In general dominant black suppresses brindle.
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