Changing colour?

[GuineaPigg]

My guinea pig Rodney seems to be changing colour, he's always been a sort of tri colour, mainly white but with lemon and black roaning. He's coming up for 12 months of age and when I got him in October he had 2 black feet, now his feet have gone grey, he's getting more lemon and also developing black and lemon spots.

Is it normal for a piggy to change colour and develop new markings?

 

[CiaraPatricia]

I don't really know, but my Moxie was born almost completely black but then got lots of white roan colouring as he got older, so maybe something like that.

 

[HairlessWillow7]

Some piggies seem to change color and some don't. I had a really old black guinea pig named Nibbles. Her hair was the same black from when I got her as a baby to when she got old. Now I have a younger sow named Fermi who is turning from brown to gray on her back. I think it just depends on the piggy. Maybe genetics are involved?

 

[:) zoe :)]

ok this properly has nothing to do with this but i had three chickans and two had light feathers and the other one had dark, the dark feathered one mmaulted then grew light feathered ones like m other too

 

[MommaPiggy]

I don't know if it's considered normal or not but my brother has a ginger boy called Rooney and he seems to be going a blondish gray colour now. He used to be bright ginger but not quite so much anymore.

Maybe it's like going gray for piggies. Some start getting the white hairs early... rolleyes

 

[CiaraPatricia]

Maybe sometimes the sun changes their hair colour too, like turns black pigs slightly brownish red, and brown pigs slightly blonde.

 

[Bailey]

I don't know if it's considered normal or not but my brother has a ginger boy called Rooney and he seems to be going a blondish gray colour now. He used to be bright ginger but not quite so much anymore.

Maybe it's like going gray for piggies. Some start getting the white hairs early... rolleyes

This happened to Bailey, as he got older his hair colour did seem to change. It was like he was grubby if you know what I mean?

 

[Wiebke]

I have/had two guinea pigs whose colour has changed from ginger to dun, Llewelyn and now Taffy. It is not all too frequent, but it can happen.

 

[Alikko]

At Hopper Haven and Littlefoot Sanctuary that I volunteer at they have a male guinea pig that was just black and white then some of his white part turned grey which we thought was dirt at first until he had a bath.