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A dark eyed golden american crested cavy. From this photo you can see that this cavy has a 100% white crest.
(photo courtesy of the Hobart Cavy Club, TAS Australia)
A self black American Crested cavy
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| The American crested is self coloured cavy with a contrasting crest colour. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The crest must be at least 75% contrasting colour. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| RIGHT A dark eyed golden american crested cavy. From this photo you can see that this cavy has a 100% white crest. (photo courtesy of the Hobart Cavy Club, TAS Australia) |
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| The coat can be of any self colour - as long as it conforms to the Australian standard. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| At the moment, I have only ever seen the crest being white, but it is allowed to be any other standardised self colour. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| One of the hard things with this breed - is actually getting the crest to be white. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ABOVE RIGHT A self black American Crested cavy |
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| The American crested cavies carry a "spotting" gene, which passes on as a patch of contrasting colour - but how big the spot, and where it is on the body is anyone's guess. | It is possible for a baby from an American crested : American crested breeding to come out all white, self with contrasting patches/spots or all self with no hint of white at all! | ||||||||||||||||||||||