| Himalayan Abyssinian |
| How I got started in Himalayan Abyssinian is kind of by accident. My uncle is a teacher and I loaned him a sow to take to his class room for a few weeks to share with his class. Someone else had also brought a pet guinea pig. Not knowing much about breeding my uncle put the two together and a few months later I had a litter of mixed babies. All my uncle could tell was the father is "brown". Two of the babies were born white and I expected them to stay white. I had American Himalayans so I was familar with the way himis develop and after a few week I could see the white babies were getting points and that is when I thought it would be cool to breed for Himalayan Abyssinians since I have both black Abyssinian, Himalayan Americans and now two half breeds to get me started. |
| This is Hot Tamales, the one who was loaned to my uncle. She is a Golden Agouti Abyssinain. |
| Pinapple a sow, and Coconut a boar were the babies from Hot Tamales. I next bred Pinapple to Black Fizz then I bred the two sibling together. |
| Bananas is the daughter of Pinapple and Coconut. She turned out better than expected on rosettes and ridges but she has a white spot on the bottom of her foot so she is unshowable. |
| Black Fizz is a black Abyssinain boar |
| Kiwi is the daughter of Pinapple and Black Fizz. She turned out worse than expected on rosettes and ridges. But she is a sow so we kept her. |
| Current Breeding |
| I have Banana and Pinapple in breeding with Mystery Man who is a black Abyssinian. He is pretty nicely put together I am hoping for better rosettes and ridges and hopefully a boar because I kept three black sows from my fall breedings to breed into my himalayan herd. |
| These are the black sows waiting to be old enough to be put into the breeding program. |