[Anna Chilikina]

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SILVERS
At maturity a silver poodle is silver all over from the fringes to the tip of the tail. The color may vary from a silver so light as to be the color of a newly minted silver dollar or so dark as to be pewter or like a grey flannel suit. The light ones are called platinum the darker ones deep silver. The eyes rims , nose and toenails are black. This makes for an appealing contrast on a basically light colored dog -- color that is both pretty and practical as silvers keep looking clean and smart in between baths and clips.
Most silvers are black when whelped. You can, however, always tell if the newborn will be silver and even how light a silver. In between the pads of the newborns feet there should be a tuft of all white hair. If there are also tufts behind the pads, on what would correspond to our wrist, the puppy will eventually be a platinum silver and start turning very early. If on the other hand there are many blk hairs sprinkled in between white tufts the puppy will be grey or blue depending on the proportion of blk hairs. All blk hairs will of course be blk. So you can tell at whelping.
COLOR AT SIX WEEKS
You can always accurately fortell color at six weeks of age. When clipped a silver puppy MUST be silver on the face, feet and tail stern-- the lighter the color at maturity. The true silver puppy is adorable at six weeks. With it's blk mast of a face framed by the blk hair on ears it is very appealing. Our silver puppy then proceeds to lighten gradually all over from dark to light grey and finally at the age of 18 mon. it has attained its lightest color. If some darkening occurs later it is because of an increase of the coarser blk guard hairs.
SILVER AT MATURITY
A platinum silver will have many white guard hairs, a deep silver more blk. Usually the deeper silvers will have the best coats. If a skin injury occurs either from a clipper burn, bite or skin condition the new hair will come in blk and will take, from original time of injury to complete color return, a year -- the same length of time it takes for a puppy to turn from it's blk birth color to an all over solid silver. We must remember that silvers are basically blk. poodles carrying an early greying or silvering factor and this is why, with rare exceptions or planned breeding, silvers should never be bred to blacks as this will cause blacks to look faded very early in life.
SKIN COLOR
Skin color in silver vary from pink to a deep mauve with the lighter skin usually producing the lightest silvers. One of the most confusing things to the new breeder is that few poodle breeders of note seem to agree on anything, most especially on color breeding. There is a good reason for this. It seems that different lines of family of poodles throw different colors and have different rates of growth. Whereas for instance some puppy coats from some lines do well cut back , others do not require this. Some lines can be safely mixed as regards color and others may produce horrible mismarked, spotted or otherwise poor color. However, the silver toy especially developed with careful scientific breeding over a 15 yr. period can be fairly well depended upon -- not in all lines but in many.
Silvers should be basic in a kennel. From them if one wishes, one can achieve the most glamorous , subtle, paler colors. For the first time in toy poodles whites have been consistently as good or better winners than the good solid carefully bred silvers they come from. In some parts of the country the quality of the whites was deplorable, coming as most of them did through the undeveloped (by our modern day standards ) old fashioned high eared, large-eyed, long backed little white doggies called French poodles.
I decided to breed some good whites because I never saw a good one, at either the puppy matches i judged -- let alone in the ring.
PRODUCING WHITES FROM SILVERS
The really valuable thing about whites is that irrespective of what color they are derived from, bred to another white they only produce white. If there are BIS winning whites from the silvers there are also BIS winning silver beige -- another color that breeds true when bred together.
PRODUCING SILVER BEIGE FROM SILVER
You can see how useful and safe a color silver is. All silver puppies, if you prefer, by one parent having no white or beige gene or some white and some beige puppies if both parents carry these genes. Whites or beiges only come when both parents carry that color gene.
SILVER BORN SILVERS
Another variation of a blk born silver is a silver born silver -- a never to be forgotten excitement for those who have had them. In this case both parents must carry silver born gene and as in the case of the whites and the silver beiges they breed true (all born silvers ) when bred together. In some lines however, there are draw backs to the born silver. Care must be taken to keep the eye color dark and the coat coarse. This can be explained when one understands that the points (nose and eye rims ) are dark mauve and the coat platinum.
SILVER TO SILVER
In support of my experience, I must say that I think I must of bred as many silvers as any breeder known. Silver is a recessive color, and I have never known two silvers bred together ever to throw a color darker than that silver -- i.e. such as blue or black.
Silver are safe, easy to breed and always, throughtout the year, there is a great demand for both practical yet glamorous pets and best basic color breeder to own.
From article from Pamela Ingram, Sassafrass Kennels