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Below you will find a picture and some information about all of our guinea pigs. If you wish to find out more about them, such as genealogy, show results, colour charts, character, more pictures, or whether I'm planning to breed with them, you can always get in touch with me, for details see the contact page. I would also like to tell you some more about the breeds and colourings.

Lothlórien-guineas are abyssinian, a cheeky and funny race, and coronet, a sweet and cuddly race. Abyssinians are guinea pigs with a lot of crests. Four crests stand in line in a row around the body. Four more crests form an identical row on hind and hips. These rosettes are pushing the hairs between them upright to ridges. On the head are two more rosettes, the eyes being the centres. Most wanted for shows are two more small rosettes on the nose.
Coronets are easier and quicker to explain: guinee pigs with short hairs on the head, with one crest on the forehead, and have long coat from the whiskers down.

We try to develop the abyssinian in black magpie, which is a mixture of black, white and brindle area's on the same guinea pig. Brindle means both colours are mixed up, so in magpie brindle looks like a greyish area of black and white hairs. All these area's on the same piggie makes them look really funny! Magpie abyssinians are still really rare in the Netherlands, to build a good line related colours like brindle (black/red), red, and BEW (black eyed white) are also to be found at Lothlórien.
The coronets are nearly all silveragouti white. Agouti coloured guinea pigs have several colourbands that run along their coat. So, because there are several colours on one hair, their coat has the funky speckled agouti-pattern, which is called 'ticking'. The nice thing about shelties and coronets is that you can see the ticking really well on their head, but on the long-haired body the agouti pattern has a different effect, which makes a beautiful contrast. I also try to breed solid silveragouti white. They have a darker appearance, and ticking on their belly as well, where a 'normal' silveragouti has a white belly.

We are opposed to the breeding of satin guinea pigs, and try to avoid satin in Lothlórien. If you want to know more about satins and why we are opposed to breeding them, see www.satijncavia.nl and also check "Onderzoek".

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