26+ Peruvian Long Haired Guinea Pig Background

26+ Peruvian Long Haired Guinea Pig Background. Immobility issues from the long hair puts peruvian guinea pigs at risk for fly strike, which is dangerous and painful. The coats usually grow from their spine of all sides and can even cover their faces.

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Peruvians have very straight long haired guinea pigs need a lot of grooming and you need to be careful about your choice of combs. Feeding a peruvian guinea pig, is not different to feeding most guinea pigs. Tortoisehell persian domestic cat and long hai guinea pig.

Because of the long hair it can make caring for this breed a little more difficult then other guinea pig breeds.

If you guessed hair, you are right. All peruvian guinea pigs are homozygous for the autosomal recessive gene that causes their long coats (ie both copies of this gene are of the abnormal form). When they migrated to lima they carried on, and little by little other peruvians from different backgrounds started to get a taste for it and restaurants started to buy guinea pigs. Peruvian guinea pigs are naturally social creatures and usually enjoy living with a cage mate.