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    Harlequin runners

    Hi Senna95 and CityChicker. If you ever see this, could you both message me 🙂
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    Very unusual chick, Guinea / chicken hybrid!!

    Good to hear both of your latest are doing well. The second is totally different colour. Wonder if the Malay Rooster pure for black? The older birds look to be doing fine also. They are certainly different aren't they. Edited to add, good luck with your breeding projects.
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    Very unusual chick, Guinea / chicken hybrid!!

    Hope the second hybrid this latest hatch does ok & you find time to post a pic of same. How old are the earlier bred hybrids now?
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    Very unusual chick, Guinea / chicken hybrid!!

    It looks like the black gene from the black barred father has expressed in your latest hybrid. Very interesting.
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    Teddy Bear?

    No problems. I did check with the owner of those keets & the lavender does have white on breast. All are pearl neck patterned. can't find some of my photos from last season so best I can come up with follows. You will note that some of the TB's are quite dark, while others, one in...
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    Teddy Bear?

    BarbaraNH, thanks for information/thoughts. I am just about to go away until tomorrow, so only brief reply. Will return to this though when I get back. I too experience some variation in some of the TB keets (& some of the striped keets also). Some have had "weak" (for want of better word)...
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    Teddy Bear?

    I had meant to mention "penetrance" above. A % of birds with a factor for a trait may not express that trait, eg, some guineas with the pearled neck pattern may also have whatever it is that generates expression of white while not expressing white. I don't know, but something to consider...
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    Teddy Bear?

    Hi Peeps No, nothing final yet, but ideas en-mass lol. Consider the following (a little off topic but related further below); Many/most of the wild birds I have seen photos of (in Africa) have the pearled neck pattern. Have a look for yourself & see what you come up with. I would be...
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    Teddy Bear?

    If m factor in our guineas here & something other suppressing, then the suppressor is pervasive here in Oz. I think the white could have something to do with it.
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    Teddy Bear?

    When I first heard the term, "teddy bear", I never assumed that it was an official title, rather, some hobby name so called because it described a phenotype that reminded some of a teddy bear, which is from what you have said, the reason it was called so. I don't see the link between the so...
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    Pearling/partial-pearling/non-pearling?

    According to “older” theory, M+ is incompletely dominant over m allele, so M+/M+ birds are fully pearled, M+/m birds are partially pearled, & m/m birds are non-pearled. However, these outcomes are not supported in some populations when you consider that no non-pearled birds occur. Let us look...
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    Pearling/partial-pearling/non-pearling?

    Hi Peeps We are all learning. Unfortunately, most of us don't know enough to know it all, or even very much It is strange that for years you have only bred the fully & partially pearled birds though. Perhaps something, or combination, that has/have come together in correct formula in...
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    Pearling/partial-pearling/non-pearling?

    Has anyone any ideas/thoughts about pearling/semi pearling/non-pearling? I am not too sure that factor/s involved which effect the degree of pearling are well understood. It has been thought in the past that two doses of an autosomal recessive (m/m) would produce non-pearled birds...
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    When can I put the keets outside?

    You are right about the chilled keets (or anything for that matter) Peeps of course; not conducive to fast growing strong healthy birds if all energy burnt up trying to keep warm, & potentially fatal, especially if they happen get wet
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    When can I put the keets outside?

    I have put mine outside earlier when the weather is warm/mild? Maybe I shouldn't? Maybe I should read here more often
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