US Teddies and Rexes

Our next type of piggie coats, will actually be two types of hair that are very similar. I was lucky enough to own both of this type, so I can show you.

I had and have both Rexes and US Teddies, at first hand it seems there is not a big difference between the two types, but there are some distinct differences.
Rexes have a curly belly, their whiskers are not straight but curly and their fur is usually a lot more coarse then that of a US teddy.
US teddies in comparison have no curly hair on their bellies, their whiskers are straight and their fur is really soft.

Both types have hair that stands out and is slightly curly, if it would grow longer (as is the case with Tessels) they would have nice curls. Both seem to have pretty dense coats, and in my experience they are more prone to having dry skin and fur problems like a fungal infection.

Usually both can get pretty big compared to piggies with other hair types, our current US Teddy Roos for example is at least 2 cm longer then the rest and in general she is just big (without seeming fat). Of course there are always exceptions our Woopy (first pigture below) was always very petite and never weighed at lot more than 1 kilo.

Woopy, a Rex piggy

Daisy, a US Teddy

Woopy's nose,
here you can see her slightly curled whiskers

Chico, in this pigture you can see fairly well that his whiskers
are straight, which makes him a US teddy

Lotje, our first Rex sow, she had the cutest curly belly

I will find a pigture of our US teddies Lily and Roos, I haven't been able to either upload a pigture of them (at the moment) or I just can't find a pigture that does them justice. I will post them soon, when I do manage to upload and find proper pigtures!

Btw, if you still have smooth-haired piggies to enter, go ahead and send them in! 

Also if you want to suggest another type, do so in the comments.

Mieke