Can you believe it?! Genetically silver is actually the losing of a color, not a color. So there isn’t a silver gene. There is a black gene and some poodles lose their black pigment causing them to turn silver! In the poodle world this is called “clearing”. So a silver poodle is a black puppy who has cleared to a silver color! Clearing can happen in any of the poodle colors. It’s why a red puppy may turn apricot as an adult, and a cream puppy may end up a snow white as an adult! Clearing has his