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BREEDS
OF GUINEA PIG
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Breed
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Piggy !
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Features
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Genetics
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ABYSSINIAN
This
is Rocky
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Hair grows in swirls
all over the body, hair neither short nor long (about an inch or so)
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The
abyssinians are RRmm The rough hair gene RR is dominant over the
smooth hair rr gene of the 'smooth coated' guinea pig..
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ALPACA (Boucle)
This is Missy
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Like a peruvian
but with wavy hair like a texel as it has the rex gene.
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AMERICAN / ENGLISH
SMOOTH COAT
This
is Rusty
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Short haired, smooth
and can be of any colour.
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The
'smooth coat' gene is a recessive rr
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CORONET
This
is Kiara
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The coronet is like
a cross between a sheltie and a crested in that it has long
straight hair but has a crest on the forehead.
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CRESTED
This
is Robby
Redwood-
American Crested Red
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English: A 'smooth' haired
guinea pig with a flat 'swirl' of hair forming a crest on the forehead.
The crest is in the same colour as the coat.
American: The same,
however the crest is white in colour.
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The
Star gene St provides the crest on the head.
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HAIRLESS PIGS
- There are 2 types of hairless pig:
This
is Shirtless
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Skinny Pigs
- Have a little fuzzy hair on their nose and feet.
Baldwins -
Have no hair at all !
No picture available
at present.
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Like a coronet (long hair with
a crest) but wavy like a texel -it has the rex gene.
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The
Merino is llrxrxStSt (A Texel with the Star gene- not sure why
there are 2 St's !)
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Long hair growing
towards the face (like a long haired abyssinian)
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A
Peruvian is RRmmll (the RRmm from the abysinnian and the ll from
the 'long' hair)
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SHELTIE (Silkie)
This
is Simba
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Long straight hair
flowing away from the face. Short hair on the face (like a long haired
'smooth' coat).
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Short
hair is dominant over long hair so long haired guinea pigs are a recessive
ll, the genes of the Sheltie are rrll (smooth - long hair)
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TEDDY / REX
This
is also Simba
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Short fuzzy hair
! The Teddy and the Rex look the same but have different genetic make
up.
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Teddy
is tt (kinked hair) and the Rex is rxrx.
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TEXEL
This
is Angel Eyes
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Long hair in a wavy
pattern, like a cross between a sheltie and a rex but not
as fuzzy as a rex, more wavy !
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A
Texel is llrxrx (long-hair from sheltie & the rex fuzz)
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Agouti
Ivan
& Moca- American
Silver Agoutis
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These are most like
the wild cavy's - can be cinnamon, golden, lemon, salmon, silver - they
look like they are flecked or 'ticked' with black (each hair is banded
with colour and black which results in the flecked appearance).
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The
Agouti coat pattern is a dominant gene symbolised by AA.
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Brindle
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Black and red hairs,
all mixed together rather than in patches.
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Broken
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No picture available
at present
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Markings with clean
cut patches of more than one colour
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Dalmation
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No picture available
at present
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White body with
coloured spots (think dalmatian dog).
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The
dalmation also carries the Lethal RnRn gene.
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Dutch
This
is Trixie
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A coloured rump,
and eye patches (of the same colour) resulting in a white midriff and
white stripe down the nose (like a dutch rabbit) white + one other colour.
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Himalayan
Baby
Himis
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White with black
/ sooty / chocolaty 'points' on the tip of the nose, feet and ears.
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Marked
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No picture available
at present
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Specific colour
patterns on a cavy's coat - usually white with patterns of another colour
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Roan
Midnight
Raven- American Black/Blue roan
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Several colours
mixed with white hairs (difficult to describe - like a roan horse!)
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The
roan gene is RnRn - this is a '*Lethal Recessive' gene.
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Satin
Storm
Cloud-American Satin Himalayan
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Extremely silky
smooth shiny hair (any colour or length) the hair looks so translucent
as the hair shafts are hollow.
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The
satin gene is snsn.
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Selfs
Casper
the Ghost- American PE White
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Guinea pigs all of one colour -
Beige, Black, Buff, Chocolate,
Cream, Golden [PEG/DEG], Lilac, Red, Saffron, Slate, White [PEW/DEW].
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Tortoiseshell
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No picture available
at present
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Chequered patches
of red and black.
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Tortoiseshell and White
Jackie's Peachy
- Abyssinnian Tort
& White
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Chequered patches
of red, black and white.
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