How do you know if Chihuahua puppies will have a short or long coat?
Becca asked:
I’m not sure if there is a way to know what kind of coat puppies will have before they are born, like if one parent is a long coat and the other is a short coat, how do you know if the Chihuahua puppies will have a short or long coat?
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I’m not sure if there is a way to know what kind of coat puppies will have before they are born, like if one parent is a long coat and the other is a short coat, how do you know if the Chihuahua puppies will have a short or long coat?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:41 am
No there’s no way to know before they’re born!! Some will have a smooth coat, some will have a long and some might have a somewhat in-between coat.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Doesn’t it depend on which trait is recessive and which is dominant? I don’t know which is which though.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:03 am
You won’t know; if like you say the parents are short haired and long haired you will most likely get a combo and perhaps even, long, short & medium.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:52 am
There is no way of knowing until the puppies are born.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
You can have long hair and short hair in the same litter. You can also have different eye color and coat color from the same litter.
February 13th, 2009 at 9:03 am
The coat will be a little bit wavy if they are going to be longhaired, also they will have a good bit of hair on the tips of their ears.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
It depends on what the short coat is carrying. Short coat is dominat and long is recessive. If the short coat doesn’t carry the recessive gene at all, then you will have all short coats. However if the short coat carries the recessive, then up to 50% of the puppies will be long coat (in theory, in practice you don’t know if it will actually hit together).
Now if you breed one of their short coated offspring to a long coat, you KNOW that the puppies are carrying the long coat gene (since that is all the long coat parent has to offer).
As for after birth, by around 3 weeks you may notice a marked difference in the coats. Longer hair, hair that is longer than the edge of the ear, longer hair on the toes, perhaps even softer hair. I myself was surprised by long coated puppies out of two short coats. I didn’t suspect they would have any long coats at all.