{"id":6005,"date":"2026-07-07T21:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericka.templweb.com\/starcastlehounds\/?page_id=6005"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:02:15","slug":"silken-windhound-coats-and-shedding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/about\/silken-windhound-coats-and-shedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Silken Windhound coats and shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A very common question; do they shed a lot?<\/em><\/strong>
Well, eh, that depends \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hejsan, after having puppies<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hejsan as a spayed senior lady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The amount of coat depends on several factors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Climate.<\/strong> Where does the Silken live, what country, what climate? How cold is it really and how much time does the dog spend outside in really cold wheather?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Food<\/strong>, good quality food will produce bigger coats than food of lesser quality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Genes<\/strong>, some lines carry more coat than others<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Intact females<\/strong> will shed approx 4 months after being in season, but can still amass quite a lot of coat in between<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Adult males<\/strong> that has shed the junior\/youth coat and has the adult coat, can add more and more coat at least up until around 10 years of age.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • It is not uncommon that really old Silkens<\/strong> will have less coat than they had in their prime.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Some will say that white coats<\/strong>, even just the white parts of a dog, will shed more than the other colors. They will at least shed faster than the darker colors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    The same dog during shedding. The white coat has already shed most of it while the darker coat still remain a lot longer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    My 4 year old male Arktis (Kristull Arctic Starcastle) has so far not started shedding. He is still just adding more and more coat. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    The more coat the dog has, the more it will shed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The first shed occurs about the time the puppy is teething.

    You can see the first puppy fuzz disappearing, it is common to see it very clearly along the back, like this<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    At 15 weeks you start wondering if this is really going to be a longhaired hound?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    At 6 months you can see some curls<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    At 15 months the junior coat is there to see<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    The first junior\/puppy coat, it is different when that comes off.<\/strong>

    For girls I have mostly seen them wait to drop the junior coat until about 4 months after the first time they have been in season. Since that normally happens between 12 and 24 months of age, it is hard to predict in advance when the junior coat will drop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As for males, and I live in a cold climate, it often depends on what time of year they were born. If they were born during summer or fall, they will keep their junior coat all through the next winter but seem to be too young (not quite or about a year old) to shed in the spring. These males often keep their junior coat for another full year and drop the junior coat in the spring when they a lot older than you would expect for a real shed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    At 21 months he is still having his junior coat, many males that dropped theirs much earlier, are now growing their first real adult coat.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    2 years old<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    2.5 years and Spacejump has finally got rid of most of the junior coat<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    4 years and now the coat is much thicker<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    7 years. Spacejump looks like he gets darker and darker but it is really just the black brindling that grows and spreads<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    10 years old<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Personally, if you ask me, I wish Spacejump would still look like this!!!<\/em>
    He was 2 years old here, but what a color \ud83d\udc96\ud83d\udc96\ud83d\udc96<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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    A very common question; do they shed a lot?Well, eh, that depends \ud83d\ude04 The amount of coat depends on several factors The same dog during shedding. The white coat has already shed most of it while the darker coat still remain a lot longer. The more coat the dog has, the more it will shed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6010,"parent":2859,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"longpage","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","slim_seo":{"description":"Do Silken Windhounds shed? Yes, but how much, depends on many different factors","title":"Silken Windhound coats and shedding"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6005","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mlvpf61vi6vj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/468523364_10161147694283795_8581361952064146266_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6005\/revisions\/6804"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silken.windhound.com\/starcastlehounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}