Stay Signed In
Do you want to access your site more quickly on this computer? Check this box, and your username and password will be remembered for two weeks. Click logout to turn this off.
Stay Safe
Do not check this box if you are using a public computer. You don't want anyone seeing your personal info or messing with your site.
Hair grows in swirls all over the body, hair neither short nor long (about an inch or so)
AMERICAN / ENGLISH SMOOTH COAT
Short haired, smooth and can be of any colour.
Agouti
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).
TEXEL
Long hair in a wavy pattern, like a cross between a sheltie and a rex but not as fuzzy as a rex, more wavy !
SHELTIE
Long straight hair flowing away from the face. Short hair on the face (like a long haired 'smooth' coat).
MERINO
Like a coronet (long hair with a crest) but wavy like a texel -it has the rex gene.
HAIRLESS PIGS - There are 2 types of hairless pig:
Skinny Pigs - Have a little fuzzy hair on their nose and feet.
Baldwins - Have no hair at all !
CRESTED
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.
CORONET
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
DALMATION
White body with coloured spots (think dalmatian dog).
Also very similair to a Roan: Do not breed Roan with Roan or Darlmation with Roan or Dalmation with Dalmation they will come out deformed!
ALPACA
Like a peruvian but with wavy hair like a texel as it has the rex gene.
Selfs
Guinea pigs all of one colour -
Beige, Black, Buff, Chocolate, Cream, Golden [PEG/DEG], Lilac, Red, Saffron, Slate, White [PEW/DEW].
Satin
Extremely silky smooth shiny hair (any colour or length) the hair looks so translucent as the hair shafts are hollow.
DUTCH
Eye patches and sometimes rump ( both the same colour.) resulting in a white midriff and white stripe down the nose (like a dutch rabbit) white + one other colour like chocolate brown, cream and deep wood brown.
ROAN
Several colours mixed with white hairs (difficult to describe - like a roan horse!) Just like a Dalmation but with more colouring.
TORTOISHELL AND WHITE
Chequered patches of red, black and white.
TEDDY / REX
Short fuzzy hair ! The Teddy and the Rex look the same but have different genetic make up.
