Breeding my skinny pigs

Question
Hello Cindy, normally I'm not into breeding and we have a home sanctuary with rescues, that said......I just love, love, love my skinny pigs!  Unfortunately, most were bought and only a few were adopted (hard to find for adoption).  People who sell their pig usually want to charge as much as a store and you still don't know the health.  

I've had a couple die after only having them for a month or so.  I know it wasn't me because our animals are very well looked after.  We've had bunnies for years (all rescues/fixed).  Our 'pets' receive plenty of exercise AM to late PM, live in huge homemade pens, most are bonded to another or a group, etc.  They also get fed unlimited timothy hay, veggies at night and only a limited amount of pellets.  I've dealt with more health issues than I care to mention as pets get older or just come down with something.  I've been successful in treating certain conditions up to a point.  Our animals also see a vet when needed.

Thanks for listening to all that, it's just I don't want to come off as an animal 'hoarder' or someone who knows nothing about taking the responsibility/commitment there is to owning/rescuing animals.

We've also taken in pregnant guinea pigs, kept the babies, girls live with girls, boys live with boys.  We have room for a couple more litters or three and this is where I'd like some information.

I realize I don't know the complete history of our animals (pedigree) but I would like to have some more of my own skinny pigs that I don't have to worry about where they came from, money being charged, etc. etc.  We will indeed keep all of the babies as well, as I do not trust people to say they will take good care of them.

If I bred one of our skinny pigs with a 6 mo. old female that came from a Peruvian mother and an American father, with the short hair, would a percentage of the babies be skinny pig carriers?  Would ALL of them be?  

If a female was born of that litter and one day bred to another one of our skinny pigs (not the father), would I get any actual skinny pigs out of that litter?  Does it happen in 2 generations or 4, or how many?  I'd really like to know the logistics and if it would be set back because the mother would have Peruvian in her background.  Is long hair a recessive gene and it wouldn't matter?

I don't have any female skinny pigs so I don't know if I should breed a short haired female with a skinny pig, then go from the next litter in another 6 months or so after the babies are born.

I'm sorry for all of the 'yakking', I'm trying to type quickly and explain myself as much as possible LOL.

thank you so much for any help!

Paula

Answer
I am sorry that your answer has taken so long but, I had to REALLY think about it.  You say that you have room for a couple more but,
honestly it becomes an obsession.  They are so cute and tiny and hungry! When I started our program @ my school, we had two old men
that had been there for a few years.  I had American guinea pig (female) and one (male) skinny that I rescued from a store where he was
being bitten by his cage mate.  I brought mine to school and the kids loved the idea.  

Needless to say the kids in the other classes wanted some of their own.  I had seen my male mount but, never a pregnancy.  So, of course,
I put my girl with one of the old men!  In the mean time, I rescued a female skinny who was pregnant.  She gave birth as did the other couple!

Now, that only covered 2 classes!  So of course, I wasn't satisfied.  I found a breeder that was only 2 hours away and bought 3 more.
But I got so into running our ZOO and everybody wanted more.  To make a long story short, I ended up with 48 piggies.

Breeders seem to sell them all the time, so I tried.  I only sold two.  Now I'm giving them away!  But that feels good as kids are getting a novel experience.  I don't mind.

As to your breeding questions, you can solve your questions with a punnet square.  All you have to do is breed a skinny  with any type of
Haired and you could have at least one skinny.  The trait will effect every generation.  But you cannot breed relatives as this will produce
a roan/ lethal. Those die.

I cannot tell you what to do, but really think and promise that you will keep it to only a couple of litters.   It could easily get out of control.
Also the more that you have the more you have to feed.  I spend about 300.00 per month on food.

Good Luck, Cindy