Yay for babies!

[elevan]

Helga (Salmon Faverolle broody) hatched out a 100% hatch of guinea keets today! 12 total.

This one is a little unusual as it is light colored and all of our adults are standard pearl.



More pics of the whole family:

 

[PeepsCA]

Aww, congrats! And good job Momma Helga

The lil guy with the whiter face and white wings looks like a Royal Purple (so a couple of the Pearl Grey adults in your flock are carrying hidden-recessive partially pearled gene in their background).

 

[Samantha P]

they are so cute

 

[livenwpeeps]

Yes, the first little guy is a Royal Purple. Notice the irregular stripes on the head where Pearls have bold stripes on their heads. Here is a picture of 5 Royal Purples that I hatched out last year. They are very pretty as adults and very cute as keets.

 

[elevan]

Thanks! It's exciting to have one of the little ones be different (royal purple).

They are sociable with us too! Being raised by a chicken hen I'm sure is part of that but it just amazes me.

 

[Hotcookie]

Too cute!!! Lucky you!