Benna Quiller is nine weeks old today and has been undergoing some crazy quilling for about a week and a half. That's not the issue. The weird thing is that she's a pinto and it looks like she's almost exclusively shedding her white quills.
The white quills in question are slightly longer and thicker than her banded quills. (She has shed around three or four banded ones, though.) I'm not crazy, other people have commented on this as well. And it's not that I can't see the dark quills, she has light fleece liners where even the lost white qulls are apparent.
Has anyone else experienced this? Am I crazy? Why is she only losing one colour of quill?
(She's perfectly healthy in other ways, no itching/scratching/sneezing/discharge/crusties etc. Just a tiny bit of dry skin, new quills are pushing through.)
Anddd for the lurkers who, like me, click into random topics in hopes of cute hedgie pictures: You can kinda see how the white quills are longer in the first.
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The white quills in question are slightly longer and thicker than her banded quills. (She has shed around three or four banded ones, though.) I'm not crazy, other people have commented on this as well. And it's not that I can't see the dark quills, she has light fleece liners where even the lost white qulls are apparent.
Has anyone else experienced this? Am I crazy? Why is she only losing one colour of quill?
(She's perfectly healthy in other ways, no itching/scratching/sneezing/discharge/crusties etc. Just a tiny bit of dry skin, new quills are pushing through.)
Anddd for the lurkers who, like me, click into random topics in hopes of cute hedgie pictures: You can kinda see how the white quills are longer in the first.
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