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8/5/12 at 4:29pm

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Just thought I'd share some pictures of my daughter, our 4 keets and one young roo. My kid really has a way with birds - LOL!

Pretty sure we have 2 Pearl Grey keets, but can someone help me with the color of the lighter ones? Here's a good baby picture of the darker of the two lighter keets at a day old:

And the lighter one at a day old - it does have the striping, but it's a lighter color tan than on the other one:

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8/5/12 at 4:48pm

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8/6/12 at 10:20am

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Awesome picture.

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8/6/12 at 10:44am

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Adorable!

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8/6/12 at 12:19pm

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CUTE!

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8/6/12 at 1:49pm

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Love the pic with all the birds perched on your daughter, too cute, lol. Sorry I looked at your pics twice, but missed the part in your post asking for help with the colors!

The 2 darker keets do look Pearl Grey to me, and the darker of the 2 lighter keets looks like a Buff Dundotte (probably a Hen since it is so dark). The lightest keet looks like a lighter Buff Dundotte (probably a male), but if it's center wide head stripe is more of a pale light grey color than a light tan color I'd say it's a Porcelain. Lift their wings and take a look at their feather shafts... a Buff Dundotte's feather shafts will be creamy off-white color and a Porcelain's should have just a very slight slight grey/blue tint to them, but not creamy off-white tinted at all. You may need to compare them side by side to see this slight difference.

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8/6/12 at 7:11pm

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Love the pic with all the birds perched on your daughter, too cute, lol. Sorry I looked at your pics twice, but missed the part in your post asking for help with the colors!

Hope that helps

Thank you, PeepsCA - that is a BIG help! The two lighter keets seem to be Buff Dundottes as you said - their stripes are a light tan color. Yes - one has darker stripes than the other, but both seem to have the same tan tone and not bluish or grey. Now I'm excited, looking forward to their first molt and then the lovely spots!

From the noises they are starting to make, I think we lucked out and got one male and one female of each color. Now hopefully they'll pair up with the same color partner.

Any idea what I'd get if they pair up Buff Dundotte x Pearl Grey??

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8/7/12 at 9:44am

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Pearl Grey is dominant so most of the hatches will be Pearl Grey keets, but it's possible the birds are carrying recessive genes... and if the recessive genes pair up you could get a few Buff Dundottes, plus other colors are also possible. Without knowing their genetic background it's really hard to say what the hatches could produce tho. I started with 7 Pearl Greys originally and their hatches always consisted of Pearl Greys, Royal Purples and Buff Dundottes. 5 yrs later a couple Lavenders finally hatched from their eggs.