Are agouti guinea pigs a common breed?

[squeaksandcarrots]

Penny is an agouti and my parents think she’s rare since we’ve all never seen an agouti before. I was curious if agoutis are common, uncommon, or actually rare

 

[Merrypigs Sanctuary]

Agouti is technically a colour rather than a breed and is the original 'wild' colour in piggies It's a common colour in one form or another but also very pretty

 

[Guineapigfeet]

I thinks it’s a fairly common colour I have two with agouti colouring

 

[Pigwhisperer]

Probably depends where you are, they may be less common in some areas. They are not unusual in the UK.

 

[Betsy]

I have 2 agoutis. The brown one is Velvet and the silver one is Christian.

 

[Merab]

They are very pretty piggies.

 

[Eriathwen]

I absolutely adore agouti pigs, they're incredibly pretty. I think it depends on where you are and the people around you, some people see them as 'boring/brown/common/ wild coloured pigs' (much like people dont like brindle dogs or black cats) and therefore dont want them and I suppose no demand=no supply.
I don't see them very often around here, I have a lovely golden agouti at the moment called Cinnamon though and used to have a very handsome silver agouti called Sweep, and 2 other golden agouti's called Rolo and Bovril, Rolo is the one in the middle of the herd and she was Bovrils mother (I stuck a baby Bovril picture in just because )

 

[Louise's Zoo]

I love the agouti colour. I don't have any piggies but one of my rabbits is an agouti

 

[piggieminder]

I think agouti's were quite rare a few years ago but they are getting more common. I had a silver 10 years ago and now have a lemon. One of my neighbours has several chocolates which I understand are still rare.

I also have Caspy who is white with agouti colouring on his head.

 

[Little Piglets]

I don't remember ever seeing one in the 80's as a kid, and was really surprised after seeing one online as an adult. Locally as a kid, we had lots of tri-color pigs with extremely odd hair colics (remember a teacher that had a sow and boar and she'd give the babies away every several months, and the male had this silly looking thick comb-over in a back to front manner) in short and medium lengths. Orange, brown, black, and white were very common colors at the time. Now it's everything under the sun.

 

[squeaksandcarrots]

Probably depends where you are, they may be less common in some areas. They are not unusual in the UK.

I’m from the US maybe they’re uncommon here?

 

[Little Piglets]

I’m from the US maybe they’re uncommon here?

My female is white and agouti with a thin nose bridge (American guinea pigs usually have the Roman nose I think) and probably has some kind of import in her ancestry, though she apparently came from the Chicago area. Oddly enough, none of her pups got the agouti coloring, though one is a brown chocolate color that'd you'd swear came from different parents as it kinda looks like it has a shorter than normal nose too.

UK being separate from us due to the ocean, etc. means that their gp are bound to be slightly different as the gene pools were isolated from ours, though if people are importing/exporting them and allowing mating, you'll see wilder looking gp, locally.