Skinnies

[Lorcan]

I have a silly question. Photos I see of skinnies here and on Facebook, they always seem to have a furry nose, and it's a very furry nose. I'm not sure how else to describe it? But my two goblins do not. Bann's got furry front paws and they do have furry noses but it's much less obvious. Camowen almost looks completely naked. How much variation is there with skinnies and the fur they do have?

 

[T-Rex]

I think there’s probably a lot of variation. From looking at your twos photos I’d say they are about the same as my two skinnies. Mine don’t have much either. Just a touch on their noses.

 

[rp1993]

I think the ones with Furry noses are called warewolf skinnies, there is one I follow on Instagram and she has a thin layer of fuzz all over her body as well and the fuzzy nose!

 

[YvonneBlue]

There seems to be lots of variation in skinny pigs, from completely bald to partly covered with fur across the face. back and legs. Commonly they all never have fur on their tummies. Werewolf is just a slang name for a skinny with a lot of fur.

My skinny Ginger Pig has a much more furry nose and paws than Dora.


Ginger Pig.


Dora.

 

[Lorcan]

Bann's a lot like Dora, @YvonneBlue, amount of fur wise anyway. Black nose, gold/brown front feet. Camowen just looks naked until you're close enough to see his nose, lol.

 

[Wiebke]

I have a silly question. Photos I see of skinnies here and on Facebook, they always seem to have a furry nose, and it's a very furry nose. I'm not sure how else to describe it? But my two goblins do not. Bann's got furry front paws and they do have furry noses but it's much less obvious. Camowen almost looks completely naked. How much variation is there with skinnies and the fur they do have?

There is a lot of variation.

A lot of skinnies are backyard bred for the sake of making money; and of course any breeder will rather sell the hairier ones first and foremost and keep the best for breeding stock. Breeding skinnies is also not straight forward as they do not breed true; you have to go through gene carrying non-skinny 'werewolf' mother.

 

[Lorcan]

There is a lot of variation.

A lot of skinnies are backyard bred for the sake of making money; and of course any breeder will rather sell the hairier ones first and foremost and keep the best for breeding stock. Breeding skinnies is also not straight forward as they do not breed true; you have to go through gene carrying non-skinny 'werewolf' mother.

Bleugh, breeders breeding for the sake of it. I'd figured they couldn't all be almost-identical, heck even B & C have some fairly major differences just from looking at them, but the amount of variation is kind of fascinating. Size, build, head shape, face shape, skin and fur colour. I don't think it ever quite occured to me how much there was to it.

 

[Wiebke]

Bleugh, breeders breeding for the sake of it. I'd figured they couldn't all be almost-identical, heck even B & C have some fairly major differences just from looking at them, but the amount of variation is kind of fascinating. Size, build, head shape, face shape, skin and fur colour. I don't think it ever quite occured to me how much there was to it.

You can cross any furred breed with skinny genes, so there is quite a variation.

 

[Lorcan]

You can cross any furred breed with skinny genes, so there is quite a variation.

I'd always felt the lack of fur made it less obvious (I don't know why, precisely - I think because there's so much goes on in a guinea pig's fur, the colours, the patterns, etc, that without it there was much less of a noticeable difference). And then Bann turned up with two different colours of fur in what little fur he has.

 

[Rubysue]

My skinnies have hair on their nose, eyebrows and shoulder area

 

[Rubysue]

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[Rubysue]

There are two types of hairless guinea pigs as well, skinnies and baldwins. Baldwins are bald. Mine are skinnies.