Wapsell Cavies (BCC registered stud prefix)

Here is Leah, one of Bill’s adult lilac sows, shown with the rosettes she won at Fareham Cavy Club Show on 9th August.  You can also see the trophy she won the week before at the Southern Cavy Club Combined Stock Show in Swindon for Best Lilac in the Adult Stock Show. 

With these two wins, she is now a Southern Cavy Club champion.  Although her breeding days are over, she is still very showable and won her breed class at the London Championship Show on 12th September 2009, beating 7 other lilac piggies.  Her sire was the late and great Lennox, rarely beaten at any show he went to.

Here's one of Bill's promising young Himalayan boars, Pitcher.  He won the best under 5 months class at Fareham in December 2008.

His two litter brothers, Homer and Jake, have been sold.  Like Pitcher, they too were both show quality boars.

Here's a bird's eye-view of our main Teddy stud at Wapsell Cavies.  Now nearly two, Andy Pandy is a tort & white Teddy stud boar, kindly sold to us by Tandy Cavies near Bristol.

His father is a fabulous roan Teddy called Smokey Joe, and his mother is a cream Teddy called Homestead Hanna, both descended from imported Scandinavian Teddy lines.

As you can see, Andy Pandy's Teddy coat is better than our other Teddy stock and we hope to improve our line over the forthcoming years as Andy Pandy's influence is felt in the caviary.

This is Promyse with her first litter of two sows, born on 5 June.  Hiding under mum is PeggySue, while her sister, PollyAnna looks on.

Both sows are staying here.

Val Leppard and Bill Seymour formed Wapsell Cavies several years ago, after Bill had been breeding cavies for several years and infected Val with his enthusiasm for all things to do with these marvellous creatures.

The name Wapsell Cavies was registered with the British Cavy Council in 2002, following which all our home-bred cavies are known with the prefix "Wapsell" in front of their names, indicating they were bred by us.

Cavies we have purchased from other breeders show their original caviary stud name, where we know it. We hope you enjoy browsing our website. Please sign our guestbook if you have any comments or suggestions for us.

Pictured here is our foundation Teddy Stud, Cavyshed BillyBob, kindly sold to us by Caroline Harrold from Nottingham, together with his great, great grandson, the Wintersmith, a mainly lilac Teddy boar.

BillyBob is now enjoying his well-earned retirement.  The Wintersmith has a son and daughter born in March 2009 - both lilac with tinges of gold; just like dad!