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ARBA registered caviary focused on pedigreed show quality cavies in Utah. Self/roan Teddies in gold, black, chocolate, lilac, and beige. Broken Teddy Satins.

Tan, otter, and marten Teddies. Black and dalmatian Americans. Peruvian and Peruvian Satins.

12/01/2025

Rather wavy promising teddy chonks born yesterday. One self black boar, one self black sow, and a black otter boar.

Their mom, Legacy Miso, and babies are all doing great. 😊

11/01/2025

Some of the recently weaned youngsters at Legacy. A promising chocolate tan boar and a couple broken satin program pigs.

They are staying for evaluation. 😊

31/12/2024

🌟 Happy New Year from Legacy Caviary! 🌟

As we ring in the new year, we want to thank all of our friends and fellow cavy fanciers for all of your support throughout the last year. 2024 was filled with exciting milestones at Legacy. We continued to produce healthy beautiful cavies, acquired new wonderful outcrosses, completed multiple registrar assists, and drove over 7,000+ miles (😳🫣) to attend shows in several states. We loved connecting with fellow cavy lovers (both at shows and online) and seeing our cavy programs and community thrive.

💥 Looking forward, we’re excited to make 2025 even better! We can’t wait to share more cavy milestones, and of course, adorable baby cavy photos with you all! 😜

Here’s to another year of growth, love, and cavy adventures. Wishing you all a prosperous and joyful New Year! 🎉🥂

27/12/2024

No Christmas babies at Legacy... but we did have day-after Christmas babies. 😁 Cute litter of 3 teddy satins courtesy of Legacy Cinderella and Legacy Extra. This was a cross between a lightly marked broken "van" sow and a heavily marked broken boar in hope the distribution would even out on the babies. It does look like these three have pretty nice patching. Perhaps luck of the draw, but I'm certainly not complaining. 😆

🎄
. Now to decide, do day-after Christmas babies get Christmas names or Hanukkah names? 🤔🤔

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17/12/2024

The shiny TSWs seem to be taking over the broken teddy satin project a little bit...
..but I suppose I'll allow it when they are this cute. 😂🤭

10/12/2024

Promising litter of teddy satin babies from Legacy Red Velvet and Old Orchard's Bo. 😊 One broken red/white sow, one broken red/white boar, and a broken lilac/orange/white boar.

Pretty wavy coats and nice sheen on these guys! ✨️🌊

17/11/2024

These two littermate sisters turned 6 months old yesterday, are well over senior weight, and were introduced to their first boyfriends. 😊 Very pleased with the color on both and nice coats too. Will be fun to see their babies in a couple months time. 🥰

Legacy Gurri - Self Black --bred to a black otter--

Legacy Porcini - Self Lilac (yes, she has red eyes in person, my camera just doesn't like them) --bred to a self chocolate--

23/10/2024

This junior sow, Legacy Lanai, is quite festive with her fall colors. 🎃🍂 She's a broken DA/Orange/White satin carrier. Looking forward to getting satin babies from her when she's all grown up. 😊

07/10/2024

Exciting litter of TSW Teddy Satins from Janot's Jeanne and Old Orchard's Bo. 😊 These cuties have decent patching and are also dilute carriers, which is a nice bonus.

Keeping an eye on that one little guy.

04/10/2024

Martens! 😊🍫 These chocolate cuties are the first litter for both parents, Legacy Rosti and Legacy Chuckarama. Chuck is a registered chocolate marten teddy boar, not too many of those around. ;) We'll have to see if these babies follow in his footsteps.

03/10/2024

At first glance one might think that these two pigs are both chocolate selfs.

It is a fairly common occurrence that the color of the pig on the bottom of the first photo is confused for chocolate. It is a "shaded" color known as Sable or Sepia (depending on the shade, genotype, and also who you ask). It is not recognized by the ARBA standard. Sometimes Sepia/Sable is even unknowingly selected over chocolate because it has a tendency to be a few shades darker and less prone to grizzling, both of which are desirable chocolate qualities.

Typically when first born, sable/sepia often looks indistinguishable from chocolate. As they mature their face and skin will continue to darken, and their coat body color follows to various extents. This shift to a darker shade is why sable/sepia are referred to as "shaded". The darker face/top coat on older animals can sometimes be chalked up to faded chocolate (especially on long haired breeds). The easiest way to differentiate is skin color. For chocolate, ARBA standard calls for a "rich dark chocolate color with eyes and feet to match." Black ears or feet are a DQ.

Chocolate pigs will have chocolate feet/ears that match the coat color for the entirety of their lives. Sable/sepia develop black feet, ears, and black toenails. Their skin tone can appear lighter and passible as chocolates when babies, but around weaning age or later the difference is noticeable. The black ear/feet disqualification in the chocolate standard helps avoid this confusion, but it still happens from time to time, and not just in self colors. It is even easier to mistake them in marked varieties. By the ARBA standard's definition, pigs (in any variety) with black feet/ears/skin are not chocolate and should not be shown as chocolate or referred to as chocolate on pedigrees.

Sometimes as adults, sable/sepia end up dark enough that they can pass as a poor faded black color. The easiest way to identify a sable/sepia from a black is under color. Sable/sepia pigs will retain some of their original brown hue in their under color. Faded blacks, on the other hand, will maintain a more true black hue and fade to a lighter grey instead of a browner shade.

And as a side note, the genes responsible for sepia/sable are recessive. If you breed it in you will likely see more of it later on. If you want sepia/sable pigs that is fine, but if you are really wanting chocolate or black, not so much.

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This is updated from a cavy group post I wrote four years ago. It was suggested I post it on my page as well. This post is referring to phenotypes and how to identify sable or sepia. While I'm always down to talk about genotypes, I purposely stayed away from genetic "alphabet soup" as there are plenty of amazing resources to learn the associated genotypes. And I apologize for the fuzzy pictures, these are two wiggly junior pigs from the original post. 😅

18/09/2024

Legacy had a great trip to California for the double cavy show in Merced. Teddy Satin boar, Legacy Rolls Royce, was Reserve in Show under judge Juliet Hamak. I had the awesome opportunity to assist judge Melissa Magee in the other show, and got to put my hands on some great cavies and learned lots from Melissa at the same time. Congrats to all the other winners in both shows!

After the show, we met up with Carol at Stellar Caviary to talk about Dalmatian Americans and acquire some awesome new dal stock. (One of which, Stellar Rorschach, is pictured in the third photo) I really appreciate Carol trusting us with such quality animals, and excited to see how her dal lines mix with ours. Mike and I also did some California sight seeing, including finding my spirit animal at a coffee shop, discovering a local brewery (pineapple beer slushies?! 🍍🍹), and a quick trip to Monterey.

If anyone needs me, I will be cleaning cages, planning some exciting future cavy breedings, and then catching up on sleep. 😴🤣

11/09/2024

I'll work on photos of potentially traveling pigs tonight and send them to those that have asked. In the mean time, here's a late post about the Utah State Fair Show. :)

Legacy pigs had a great time showing and participating in both open shows. Our Americans did especially well.

26/08/2024

Legacy Caviary had a great time attending Pioneer Cavy Fanciers' Zombie Double Show on Friday. I had the opportunity to complete a registrar assist with the marvelous judge Cindy Newton, from whom I learned a lot and received valuable feedback. 🧠💡 Legacy pigs also received great comments and placements (BOV self Teddy, BOV tan pattern Teddy, BOB Teddy Satin, and BOSB Teddy Satin) under judge Joe Colucci.

On Saturday, I returned home just in time to watch Legacy Bijou deliver two orange roans sired by Chitchat Michelada. Both babies are gold carriers with promising coats. 🧡

15/08/2024

Taking the new photo backdrop out for a test spin with this spotty 6 day-old American Dalmatian sow. 😊🐄

14/08/2024

Legacy Caviary is a member of the local club that will be hosting this cavy show at the Utah State Fair in September. Lots of fun cavy events planned for a variety of guinea pig lovers. Two ARBA/ACBA sanctioned open shows, a Skinny Pigs & Friends Fun Show (for unrecognized breeds), as well as a guinea pig pet show and a carrot eating contest. Would love to see all of our local pig friends at the show!

Legacy might have select few cavies considering a change of scenery at the show as well. 😉

12/08/2024

This litter is not what I ordered, but they certainly are cute. 😆🥰 I bred a pink-eyed gold roan to a self black dilute carrier. Not a cross I typically would ever make but was hoping to win the 50% dilute chance coin flip and get some nice dilute babies. Instead I got three ticked solids, which is a variety I'm no longer working on. 😆 Oh well, they are promising chunky babies and especially after their mom had a four hour break between the first and second baby, I am just happy they are here and all doing well. 😊

Dilute solid boar (Chocolate-base, red tips)
Golden solid sow
Golden solid roan boar

10/08/2024

Fresh shiny rainbows born late last night. 🌈✨️ This is Teddy Bear Manor's Delaware and Old Orchard's Bo second litter together of broken dilute teddy satins. 😊 Excited to see how they develop as their older brother is quite a handsome pig.

Lilac/orange/white boar
Orange/lilac/white boar
Dilute agouti/orange/white sow

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