Longhaired Babies

[PiggieMamaKelly]

For anyone who has silkies or peruvians that they have had since baby-hood.... Do the longhaired breed babies come out with pretty long hair or does it look fairly short and take a while to grow??

I got my eye on some pigs, one is a teddy and I can't tell what another one will "grow into"...

 

[JudeH]

My Lilly was in a pet shop and her "hubby" was one with the spikey swirly hair, (peruvian?) her babies that looked like dad had spikey swirly hair right from the get go.

 

[JudeH]

Ps sadlly her marriage didn't last and she now resides in what my co workers call the cavy convent!!

 

[dextersmycutegp]

Holly (peruvian) had two babies that resembled little aliens. They had 2 rosettes on their rumps and short (maybe 1/2 inch) hair everwhere else. The hair started really growing by the time they were maybe 2 1/2 months old. By the way, the babies dad was a peruvian too, so they are purebreds.
Holly was pregnant when I got her from a petshop :sad: (I won't do that again) and the lady thought boy guinea pigs couldn't get girl piggies pregnant until they were 5 months old. I set her straight when I found that out recently.
The first picture is Dexter at 3 days old, the second is Dexter at 3 months, same with the 3rd. I hope this helps!

 

[PiggieMamaKelly]

It really does help. The pictures look like two completely different pigs!! Interesting...

 

[dextersmycutegp]

Their hair didn't start growing immediatly. It was very short until they got to be a few months old. They had 3 inch long hair at 5 months old before I cut it recently.

 

[cavy-cool-crazy]

They come out short haired. I know of two absolutely gorgeous silkie boys who looked like regular short haired English (American) piggies until they were about 3-4 weeks old, then their hair started gettng a bit longer and now at 7 months they are simply stunning.

The hair starts growing longer quickly, but it only really starts growing well at 4-6 months old, and I noticed that my Tuppy's reached it peak length at 9 months old. I have a few pics of her when I got her, and her now.

Tuppy at 8 weeks (she's the little one; Charlie is the other pig)


Tuppy at (nearly) 2 years
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