Yesterday my Sheltie given birth to 3 babies. The babies are mixed Sheltie and Abby breed.


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This is the last batch of 2009 babyboom. The next breeding season will only start in Feb 2010. Let them rest for 2-3 months.

I don't have any normal short hair GPs, but weird thing is normal short hair breed offspring will appear, even I bred 2 Abbys together. Looks like the chances of getting normal shorthair will appear with Abby gene.

Which GP of yours have wet jaw problem? I hope it's not the baby I sold you, as the baby could not have over-grown teeth problem at 1.5 months old. Usually over-grown teething problem will start by the age of 4 months old if not monitored properly.

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Added on January 1, 2010, 6:53 pmBaby also can be fed with other types of hays, not limit to just alfafa only.

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You don't use water bottle? Use bottle is cleaner than using water bowl, and could avoid water contamination that may causing diarrhea too. Did you check your pepper's teeth? Does the teeth look long?

First glance, initially I wonder how could the breeder cross breed a chinchilla and a GP. After reading further then only know it is indeed a pure GP with similar to chichilla's color.

Just to share my latest pictures of the babies I bred last month. Apparently the babies Shebby I bred, 2 looks more like Peruvian, and 1 more like Sheltie. Here are the pictures can see the difference in terms of their fur comparing with Peruvian and Abby. Can also see from the pictures below that baby Peruvian fur is more fluffy than Abby baby. Peruvian baby fur will grow even longer as it grow older, this picture is taken when the Peruvian baby is 5 weeks old.

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Added on January 12, 2010, 5:36 pmIf you can send them to my home in Cheras, then I could take care for you.

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Well..normally pure sheltie baby will look like a American breed from week 1 to week 3. From week 4 onwards the fur will start growing more longer and look different from American. So I am confident that this Sheltie looking Shebby may look like pure Sheltie as it's fur is start showing sign that fluffy looking and longer. It is stepping into 4 weeks old this week. I am also eager to see by next week how it will look like. Initially I thought of keeping it myself, as I recently sold off 2 pairs of my adult GPs (1 Peruvian, 1 Sheltie and 2 Abbys) away, so got room to keep. Now I was offered a job in Australia, so in 3 months time I may need to sell off all of my pets and start planning of migration.

Peruvian babies all sold. May be when I decided to migrate then will sell off my adult Peruvians.

In regards to breeding experience, I have 2 times incident that an abby with a sheltie, comes out american breed alike baby (which is Xiaomen), same goes with abby and abby too, also have once like this. Very strange...most likely that abby has strong traits of american breed in it.

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Up to 7 years or more. Depending on how much quality (healthy) food you gave to your gp.

Some petshops will tell you up to 3 years, because they feed rabbit pellets to the gp, no wonder cannot live long.

Chamy,

I saw you are going to sell off your crested mixed Sheltie, why? It is quite unique, why don't you keep it?



This is my little panda color abby. I like its even marking.




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Currently I don't have any other pregnant sow except Peruvian. Just found out that one of my Peruvian sow is pregnant.

Usually GP sow will pregnant for 2 months long. But this Peruvian of mine, I think she already pregnant for 1 month, as I can fell her babies inside. So another 1 month to go for her to deliver.

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Added on January 21, 2010, 2:27 pmLOL! I have 6 dogs, 15 GPs , 1 Anggora rabbit, 1 chipmunk, 2 birds and 2 beta fishes.

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Sheltie breed has long silky fur and will look like Shih tzu.

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Added on January 21, 2010, 2:39 pmSugarcoatedcandy, here is the site where it explained the make up genes of the guinea pig breeds. Can post it on 1st page. Like this everyone can know what is Coronet, what is Rex etc.

http://www.diddly-di.fsnet.co.uk/Breeds%20&%20Varieties.htm


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Yes, that is my Sheltie. Not Peruvian! It is a Sheltie. Well... to keep Peruvian and Sheltie, it is best to bath them with conditional shampoo for kitten/puppy/small animal. Then their fur coat will be more manageable.

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Added on January 22, 2010, 1:01 amCongrats! Consider very lucky for a first timer, all babies born safely. Still have to observe your babies weight and mom for the next 2-3 days. Just to make sure the SOW do feed the babies milk, or make sure the babies know where to suck milk.

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Here is the current picture of the baby you are interested. The fur colour is still changing and fading. I also cannot predict how it will turn out to be.


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PM you already.

This batch of Peruvian babies will not have broken colour. Possibility color is pure white, white & black, or white & grey. I sold my last batch Peruvian babies cheaper than petshops but still 3 digits figure.

I think you can, as long as your GP won't swallow that crystal bedding. It should help to reduce the pee odor too. I never tried this method on my GPs, but used this crystal for cat before.

I'm hoping to get same like this grey and white color too (like little lamb). Last time this one died because the SOW was inexperienced and refused to milk feed the baby. This time the SOW is more experienced.

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