Comments on: How do you know if Chihuahua puppies will have a short or long coat? http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:56:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: SabrinaD http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1878 SabrinaD Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:38:02 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1878 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. 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.

]]> By: onehotmama http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 onehotmama Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:03:47 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1877 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. 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.

]]> By: Jim7368 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1876 Jim7368 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:00:37 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1876 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. 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.

]]> By: george v http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1875 george v Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:52:50 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1875 There is no way of knowing until the puppies are born. There is no way of knowing until the puppies are born.

]]> By: Ms BG http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 Ms BG Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:03:12 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1874 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. :) 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.
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]]> By: Vanessa G http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1873 Vanessa G Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:14:56 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1873 Doesn't it depend on which trait is recessive and which is dominant? I don't know which is which though. Doesn’t it depend on which trait is recessive and which is dominant? I don’t know which is which though.

]]> By: walkinglady http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/comment-page-1/#comment-1872 walkinglady Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:41:08 +0000 http://www.doggydisease.com/blog/how-do-you-know-if-chihuahua-puppies-will-have-a-short-or-long-coat/#comment-1872 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. 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.

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