colour changing piggies!

[Deb H]

My dominant sow is slowly changing colour. She started out as a lovely brown and ginger girl. She is now becoming lighter and lighter. Her ginger bits are still bright and expanding. She's going to be ginger and white by the time she has finished ?/
Do piggies hair colour change often? I've not known it before.
the submissive sow is going the opposite way, her hair is darkening, but really slowly and only on her face :<>
any ideas?

 

[Goldie]

I have a gold and white sow who is 18 months old and has started changing colour around her face. She is getting agouti flecks. Basically the gold is going agouti.

She is beginning to look a different piggy.

I have been keeping guinea pigs for over 20 years so I know that young piggies do have baby fur (or hair.. whichever you prefer to call it) which slightly changes tone but this is the first time I have ever known a piggy's change so drastically.

Interesting ... anyone else?

 

[wales1000]

2 years ago we have gps babies born in the house - at first they were all the same colour but as they got older some started changing to different shades which did make it easier to reconigise them as they were all exactly the same colour!

 

[petcrazy]

Ive had young piggies here that have changed so much you wouldn't even know it was the same pig but ive never really noticed it in adult piggies

 

[Deb H]

both my girls are about 14 months old. it's just odd! I've never known an adult piggie change so much, most people who haven't seen her in a while think she's a different piggie she's changed so much.

 

[Wiebke]

Llewelyn has come up with more and more black hairs in his buff bits. He looks like a washed-out agouti now.

 

[Deb H]

The thing I love about piggies is their ability to constantly surprise us. I will get Carys (daughter) to take some photos of her tomorrow and post a then and now piccie.

Weibke - Carys is a good old Welsh name - from cariad.

 

[Deb H]

before and after - although she is even paler now

 

[Deb H]

I have added a couple of pictures - they are not the best but do show the difference in colour.