The gray poodle

The gray poodle is a poodle o poodle silver-colored, a dilute color, the result of crossing a black and a white poodle or both gray parents. Learn more about gray poodles, their characteristics, coat, skin and more. The gray toy poodle and gray poodles of all sizes.

Characteristics of gray poodle

Within the Poodle colors two distinct groups: the "new" and the "old". solid colors and the diluted.

Gray poodles belong to this second group.

The gray poodle is born from the crossbreeding of a black poodle and a white poodle (both solid colors) , in a lechigada ( set of puppies a poodle has in a single birth or a single clutch).

The coat of the gray poodle is the first of the other three diluted colors as it is derived from the crossing of two original solid colors (black and white).

The gray poodle can be obtained by crossing black poodles or poodles with white poodles, poodles or also called poodles. french poodle gray with other grays, gray with white or gray with black poodles or poodles.

It has a very attractive shade that is usually presented in a uniform hue.

The range of grey colors of a poodle is very wide and goes from the color slate dark (almost black, but not black) to very faded platinum (looks well washed out, like gray hair)

Features

• Hair or mantle: the coat should be of a uniform gray color, completely even, and this color should not be blacker or whiter, but gray. Particularly, it is very difficult to find even gray poodles, many have slightly darker or discolored ears.
  
• Leather: is dark and gray or dark silver in color.
  
• Nose or truffle: black.
  
• Lips: colored black.
  
• Nails: black.
  
• Pads (soles of the feet): they are black.

Gray poodles are born black

All gray poodles are born black and then the color is diluted leaving a gray poodle or gray poodle. This is another characteristic of gray poodles, they change color.

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How is a gray poodle born?

Po obtain a gray poodle from the crossbreeding of black and white poodles

We must cross a white and a black poodle, but from this cross can be born white puppies, pure black puppies and black puppies that will go down to gray. That is why a good breeder knows if a puppy will be gray or will stay black.

It is a very particular and sought-after color for those who want to buy a poodle toy puppyIt is difficult to find because very few breeders make this color.

Also, as it is not a pure tone, the crossing between two gray individuals can also give rise to the appearance of white dogs, and some specimens sometimes present certain pigmentation and eye color problems, so ideally they should have black eyes and nails, with a dark and uniform pigmentation.

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