Band |
T-W, Tri Colours, Patch of one
colour that completely encircles the body. |
Belt |
T-W, Tri Colours, Patch of one
colour that partly encircles the body. |
Bonnet strings |
Ticked Band of ticking
colour under the chin. |
Brassy |
Lighter shade of Red/Golden. |
Breached |
T-W, Tri Colours, Patch of one
colour that covers the hindquarters. |
Break in coat |
Patch of missing or thin coat. |
Break in skin |
An open wound or area on the
skin where a scab has formed. |
Brindling |
Intermixture of two different
colours of hair. (See also Roaning). |
Condition |
Fitness/body condition. |
Demarcation |
Marked, Ticked Line
between two different areas of the coat. |
Density |
Coat number of hair
fibres per square centimetre. |
Double centred |
Abyssinian & Crested A
rosette or crest with two centres. |
Eye circles |
Ticked Circles/part
circles of the ticking colour around the eye. |
Fanning |
Smooth hairs Hair which
fans out over the hips of a cavy against the normal lie of the coat. (See also skirting). |
Fatty eye |
Fatty tissue protruding from
between the eyelid and the eye. A disqualification if it is visible with out
disturbing the eyelid. |
Flakiness |
A condition apparent when poor
under colour shows through the top colour giving a two toned peppery effect. |
Flesh ear |
Dutch Patches of white
skin on the ear. |
Folded ear |
A fold in the ear that often
affects the carriage of the ear. |
Fringe |
Sheba Mini-Yak The hair
that falls from between the ears forward towards the nose. |
Frontal |
Peruvian, English Merino
A fringe of hair originating at the shoulders that lays forward over the face. |
Guard hair |
The longer coarser hairs that
show through the finer silkier undercoat. |
Gutter |
Abyssinian Elongated
centre of a rosette. Most commonly found on rump rosettes. |
Gutter |
Non Rosetted Varieties a
parting of the coat anywhere on the body of the cavy causing the coat to grow away from
the gutter generally found on the belly of afflicted cavies |
Head Furnishings |
The facial coat of rosetted
breeds. |
Hems in ears |
A fold of skin on the outer edge
of the ear. |
Hocks |
Where the heel joins the leg. A
critical area with regard to foot stops on Dutch. |
In pig |
Pregnant. |
Lifter |
Abyssinian A rosette
fault where a second rosette has started to form beneath another. |
Light chest |
Ticked Where the chest
colour is lighter than the rest of the body, due to longer ticking and/or poor under
colour in that region. |
Long ticking |
Where ticking is too
long, giving the coat a lighter appearance than is desirable. |
Mane - Abyssinian |
Hair growing from the collar
ridge forward between the ears to above the eyes. Must be erect. |
Mane - Sheltie |
Hair from the neck to the
shoulder that is swept back over the body. |
Muzzle |
The region including the mouth,
nostrils and fore face. |
Open centre |
Abyssinian & Crested
A rosette or crest that has an open rather than pin point centre. |
Patchy |
Colour Top colour appears
to be several different shades over the body. |
Quiff |
Smooth hairs - Where an area of
the coat grows in a different direction to the desirable lie of the coat. |
Red Eye |
Growths of red flesh that
protrude from the inner surface of the eyelid against the eyeball. A disqualification if
it is visible with out disturbing the eyelid. |
Roaning |
An intermixture of white and
coloured hair that is caused by a specific gene. (See also brindling). |
Running lice |
A small coat parasite that can
be seen moving through the coat. |
Runs to collar |
Abyssinian A fault where
the coat between the saddle and the collar is flat. |
Saddle - Abyssinian |
Formed by four rosettes across
the back. |
Saddle - Dutch |
Formed by the demarcation
between white and coloured part of the coat across the back. |
Side Whiskers |
A protruding tuft of hair
growing out just below the ear. |
Shoulder - Longhair |
The Coat emanating from the
shoulder region of the cavy. |
Shoulder
Shorthair |
A good shoulder is well fleshed
and muscular. |
Skirting |
Hair which fans out over the
hips of a cavy against the normal lie of the coat. (See also fanning). |
Smellers |
Nostrils. |
Smut |
Himalayan Patch of colour
that forms the nose marking. |
Split rosette |
Abyssinian Where two
rosettes are so close they run into each other so neither is formed. |
Springiness / Springy |
Springiness Coat (Rex)
When smoothed with the hand the coat should immediately spring back as it was. |
Springiness / Springy |
Springy Coat (Texel)
When the coat is squeezed in hands it should rebound back to original area filled. |
Static mite |
Coat parasite Very small
and appear stationary when they can be seen clinging to a hair shaft. |
Stops |
Dutch Foot stops, the
white markings on the hind feet. |
Sweep |
Longhairs the coat
emanating from the rump of the cavy. |
Swirl |
Coat fault An almost
rosette like patch of hair in an otherwise smooth coat. |
Ticking |
Ticked The patch of
colour between the base and the tip of a ticked hair. nb. Guard hairs are solid (not
ticked) in ticked cavies. |
Topcoat |
Longhair the region of
coat that continues to grow in length throughout the life of the cavy. Is usually the coat
growing from the spine, to 2/3 of the way down the body towards the feet. (Also see
undercoat ) |
Undercut |
Dutch The continuation of
the saddle, on the abdomen, which should be straight and without deviation. |
Undercoat |
Longhair The shorter
hairs on a longhaired cavy, growing from the lower one third of the body. (See also
Topcoat). |
Added August 2004
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Cobby -
(Type) |
Broad across the shoulders
continuing through to the rump with the same body width throughout. When looking down on
the cavy it should be rectangular in shape with rounded corners |
Rosette |
Abyssinian/Peruvian
/ Alpaca
Hair that radiates from pinpoint centre outwards, that evenly. |
Crest |
Cresteds/
also applies to Coronet & English Merino
A symmetrical rosette on the forehead between the eyes and ears. Radiates evenly
from a pinpoint centre. |