New & Emerging
The RVCC and the BCC have produced Guidance Notes for Breeders, Exhibitors and Judges for the most popular New and Emerging breeds. The agreement of such Guidance Notes by the BCC is the first step towards possible Guide Standard status, once it has been established that sufficient numbers meeting the Guidance Notes are being exhibited. NEB classes will only be open to cavies that have Guidance Notes that have been approved and accepted by the Council.
New & Emerging breeds with accepted Guidance Notes are the: Belted, Ridgeback and the Caramel.
Others that are accepted, must be a variant of a Full or Guide Standard Non Self breed displaying a Full or Guide Standard Self, Agouti, Solid Agouti or Argente colour(s)/ticking that is/are not specifically recognised in the above list.
Belted
| Guidance Notes for the Belted |
| belted leaflet.pdf |
Ridgeback
| Guidance Notes for the Ridgeback |
| ridgeback_leaflet.pdf |
Caramel
| Guidance Notes for the Caramel |
Any other new breeds not included in the list above will be considered an Unrecognised Breed Pending Assessment, and may only be shown in Assessment Classes at RVCC stock shows.
More details are in this article from the BCC that was published in December Cavies 2017 by Simon Neesam.
| Standardised Breeds 2018.pdf |
POTENTIALLY UNVIABLE BREEDS
The Brindle and the Sable are breeds that have in the past been exhibited in reasonable numbers, the former as a Full Standard cavy and the latter as a Guide Standard/NEB. However, examples of these breeds approaching the stated requirements have been sighted rarely, if at all, in recent years, such that there are doubts about the viability of the Full/Guide Standards/Guidance Notes previously agreed.
Accordingly, these Guide Standards and Guidance Notes have been withdrawn and examples of these breeds must be formally asssessed via the RVCC Assessment process before they can be shown competitively. Because of prior knowledge of the possibilities of these breeds the RVCC may, after conducting such a process, choose to recommend a 'fast-track' process of moving to Guide Standard status immediately rather than NEB.
The Brindle and the Sable are breeds that have in the past been exhibited in reasonable numbers, the former as a Full Standard cavy and the latter as a Guide Standard/NEB. However, examples of these breeds approaching the stated requirements have been sighted rarely, if at all, in recent years, such that there are doubts about the viability of the Full/Guide Standards/Guidance Notes previously agreed.
Accordingly, these Guide Standards and Guidance Notes have been withdrawn and examples of these breeds must be formally asssessed via the RVCC Assessment process before they can be shown competitively. Because of prior knowledge of the possibilities of these breeds the RVCC may, after conducting such a process, choose to recommend a 'fast-track' process of moving to Guide Standard status immediately rather than NEB.
