Know Your Guinea Pig Colours!

As I'm sure you know guinea pigs come in many different breeds, fur types and colours. We have discussed the different breeds in a previous blog post (click here to read). This week I really wanted to use more photographs of our piggies to demonstrate the common, and more unusual, guinea pig colours.

I thought I would start with a slighly less common colour. Billy is an adorable example of a golden/lilac argente. This means he has a lilac undercolour with golden 'ticking' (tips of his fur).

For showing standards, an argente would have to have the same colour ticking as his belly.

Annie is a dark eyed cream, (a DEC). She is a pale cream self - a guinea pig of one solid colour.

To show a DEC, it must have dark, ruby eyes and pink pads and ears.

Abby is a saffron guinea pig, which is slightly more golden than a cream, but not as dark as buff.

It is quite a common colour but still very beautiful!

Willow is chocolate, a common, but

lovely colour! One that is a firm favorite with both Laura and I!

She is not purely chocolate as around her ear she has flecks of white. I think this gives her more character!

Here's a more rare one for you!

Although hes not purebred, Gus is our closest example to a harlequin guinea pig. This is either a black/yellow or chocolate/yellow pig with what resembles a 'patchwork' pattern down their body.

Breeders work very hard to achieve this rare look and you can see why!