Hairless pigs are often called hippos. In a Canadian laboratory, guinea pigs were used to conduct experiments. In 1974, three females gave birth to hairless cubs from one male. The cause of this phenomenon was a random genetic mutation. The mating was repeated after a while and again we got naked “piglets”. Work on the breed began with these animals.
Pigs that were born with virtually no hair were called skinni, which literally means skinny or skin and bones. Apparently, the naked newborn cubs had spinal bones and ribs protruding through their skin.
The first skinnies were albinos with red eyes.
Subsequent breeding work was aimed at producing pigs with colored skin and eyes.
What they look like
Appearance
The body shape of adult animals resembled the outlines of hippopotamuses. The head is large and wide. The ears are set wide, pointing straight forward and slightly bent. The nose is convex, the eyes are large and shiny. The neck is short, the shoulders are strong. The back is relatively straight, not sagging or hunched. The skin, gathered into folds, forms a dewlap in the neck area, and pockets on the paws.
Skin and color
The hairless pig has a blunt muzzle and no tail.
The skin of these animals is pleasant to the touch and quite hot. Skinny's body temperature is 39-40 degrees. At birth, piglets of this breed have no hair at all. As it grows, a small amount of hair appears on the muzzle, not above the eye line, on the paws up to the hock joint and on the back.
Skin color can be either solid or mottled. Very often, colors have beautiful names, for example, chocolate with cream, gold and white, saffron.
The weight of adult individuals is 0.8 - 1.0 kg, and the body length is 27 - 35 cm.
Color of mood after 2021. Saratov-Samara, gift from an altruist
Belated report) Grandfather let me down again, but I found an altruist Masha in Saratov who collected a very cool gift! Masha, you are space! Naturally, it was handed over to rat customs for inspection.
and the customs officials were so delighted with it that they even tried to snatch the contents for their tea) However, the attempt at expropriation was successfully stopped))
Sweet and savory parts of the gift (my diet cried):
I especially want to mention such a cute mug with a strap, a gamer T-shirt and a bombastic cherry-chocolate jam made by the Snow Maiden herself: 3 I was also pleased with the postcard with views of Saratov from the Volga and a sweet congratulation)
Thank you very much Masha for the gift, everyone would like such Snow Maidens!)
And finally - a video of rats unpacking candy, I was gaping - they had already taken it to themselves) Thanks to @VaskoDaGame for help with unpacking
