Guinea Colors - Breeding

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Hi guys,

I have a buff dundotte hen and a pearled rooster. Any guesses as to what colors the two would produce?

I wish there were a chart for such things.

What combinations have you guys crossed? What colors did you get out of it?

I want to know! :)
 
Most of the keets from that pair's hatches will be Pearl Grey keets (Pearl Grey is dominant), but depending on what hidden recessive genes each bird may be carrying, Buff Dundotte (or even other random/surprise colors) may pop up. If you keep several of the keets that hatch (that are now carrying the hidden recessives as well) and add them to the flock, when the next breeding season comes around the hatches will still be dominated by Pearl Grey keets, but you should get at least a few more Buff Dundotte keets, and again, depending on what hidden recessives they inherited from their parents, more of the random/surprise colors may show up in their hatches as well.

My flocks are mixed colors and mixed Pieds and they all have varied genetic backgrounds, so my hatches are always very random. I don't separate my flocks into breeding pairs, typically just small-ish breeding flocks, aiming for certain colors to hatch. A couple examples: I added a Lavender male to a few Chocolates to get Coral Blue keets last season (which worked, I did get some Coral Blues in every hatch), and this year I added a Coral Blue (hatched from the Chocolate Hens' eggs) and Buff (unrelated) to the Chocolates to get more Chocolate keets and some Blonde keets (again, this worked, I did get lots of Chocolates and a few Buffs). The Coral Blue also bred with my Brown Hens and produced some Lavenders and the Buff also bred the Brown Hens and produced a few Buff Dundotte keets. I knew all of the birds had varied genetic backgrounds and because of that I still expected that my hatches be pretty random (which they were), but I was lucky enough to get a few of the colors I was hoping/aiming for.

It's hard (for me anyway) to quickly explain the basics of how the Guinea Fowl color and pearling genetics work to produce certain colors/varieties from the hatches... but each keet gets one gene from each parent that determines what color they will be and one gene from each parent that determines the amount of pearling it will have... so if 2 of the same color or pearling genes don't hook up then whatever is dominant from the pair of genes is what determines what the keet will turn out to be. (Fully pearled genes are dominant over partially pearled genes, darker color genes are dominant over lighter color genes etc). The recessive genes can and do hook up tho, which is how some flocks produce such varied hatches, and also why surprise colors/varieties to randomly show up.

Hope that made sense... lol
 
Ravie said:
Hi guys,
I have a buff dundotte hen and a pearled rooster. Any guesses as to what colors the two would produce?
I wish there were a chart for such things.
What combinations have you guys crossed? What colors did you get out of it?
I want to know!
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Hey check out this chart - it's pretty neat to see what you could get with your two guineas, or whatever colors.
http://www.edelras.nl/Henk69/kruisi...e;,C;RP;Blue;Pearled;Pearl+Gray;,C;RM;Pearled
 
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Yah neat, but not accurate, lol. It uses a lot of color names that I've never seen listed on any color chart I've come across on the internet... just makes IDing Guinea colors that much more confusing than ever for me
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ReneePrice said:
What do you get when you cross a pearl gray cock and a pearl white hen?
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I am assuming that you mean a white guinea hen. Barring any hidden recessive color genes, crossing a pearl gray with a white guinea will produce 100% pied pearl gray guineas. It does not matter which one is the hen and which one is the cock, crossing a white guinea with a colored guinea produces 100% pied guineas.
 
R2elk said:
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    "Thank you and yes the hen is a pearl white."
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I am assuming that you mean a white guinea hen. Barring any hidden recessive color genes, crossing a pearl gray with a white guinea will produce 100% pied pearl gray guineas. It does not matter which one is the hen and which one is the cock, crossing a white guinea with a colored guinea produces 100% pied guineas.
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White guineas are not pearled. They are just white. If your guinea hen looks white but is pearled then it most likely is a Porcelain (fully pearled) or an Opaline (semi-pearled). The genetics behind them is different than that of a white guinea.

Mating a Pearl Gray guinea with either a Porcelain or Opaline will result in all Pearl Gray offspring unless the Pearl Gray has hidden recessive genes in which case there are lots of different possibilities from various versions of blues or buffs since the Porcelain and Opaline have both blue and buff genes.
 
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toptom said:
What do you get when you cross a pearl gray cock with a pearl lavender hen?
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Full pearling and gray are dominant genes. Lavenders are blue based which is recessive and they are fully pearled which is dominant. Barring any hidden recessive genes in either the pearl gray or the lavender the results will be all pearl grays. It doesn't matter which is the hen and which is the cock the results will be the same as long as there aren't any hidden recessive genes.

If there are hidden recessive genes, then most anything can happen.
 

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