. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 520 PETS PETS the coat. When the coats get so long as to drag along the floor of the hutch they must be rolled up and tied on papers to keep them from wearing off. The Abyssinian cavy (Fig. 512) is the rough-coated member of his tribe. He should present a coat radiat- ing from centers all over the body ; the greater the number of radiating centers the more valuable the specimen. The coat should be harsh and wiry, and so specimens are bred where the average tempera- ture is cool. This cavy needs no especial attention other than cl
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 520 PETS PETS the coat. When the coats get so long as to drag along the floor of the hutch they must be rolled up and tied on papers to keep them from wearing off. The Abyssinian cavy (Fig. 512) is the rough-coated member of his tribe. He should present a coat radiat- ing from centers all over the body ; the greater the number of radiating centers the more valuable the specimen. The coat should be harsh and wiry, and so specimens are bred where the average tempera- ture is cool. This cavy needs no especial attention other than cleaning and feeding, ex- cept to give the coat an occasi onal brushing to keeptheroset- ting as dis- tinct as pos- s i b 1 e. It is. Fig. 514. Black Dutch cavy. bred in broken and uniform colors, the coat often taking the pattern of the Dutch marking; and many handsome tortoise-colored ones are bred. The smooth or English cavies are bred in a variety of colors, both uniform and broken. The species shows a strong tendency to a broken-colored coat, and it was only by persistent line-breeding that uniform coats were secured. The first good ones were the red, then black appeared, and now we have cream, fawn, both golden and silver, agouti, white, chocolate, and the near future will probably se» a blue. These have all been produced by per- sistent work on the part of fanciers. Mice and rats. Mice are, perhaps, the smallest pets we have and also the ones with the most enemies. These little fellows are fast becoming favorites. They are bred to a very great extent for biological research. The period of gestation is twenty-one days and the young grow very quickly, breeding when they are eight to twelve weeks old. They are bred in a large variety of colors, from the pink-eyed white to the pink-eyed silver. There are black-eyed white, yel- low, fawn, agouti, tan, chocolate, red, black, Dutch- marked, broken-colored, and oftimes a remarkably variegated type. Rats should be classed with the
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