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In theory from http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm
50% Pullets, black patterned buff (incomplete) columbian clearnecked
50% Cockerels, black patterned buff (incomplete) columbian clearnecked
When I crossed Buff and White several years ago (w/Buff Male, white female) we got males...
I just had my first hatch. I tried to keep the humidity at 60% for the first 24 days then I raised is to 80% for the last few days. I got 8 chicks out of 12 eggs
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So you only got 20 keet per hen?
Thank you! I wil let you know when they hatch. It's really nice to have someone that knows so much about Guineas on the forum!
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He is so pretty.
Hope you have a good hatch! I also have some Guineas due in a few days!
Thank you! What date are yours due? For mine the 12th will be day 28
Last year I finally got a Guinea! He was a male that someone gave me for free. I let him run around the farm and all of my family really enjoyed him. Then he got killed by a fox So this year I bought a dozen hatching eggs (could be Pearl, Pied, Lavender, Buff or Chocolate) which are now 6 days...
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I'm hatching some keets next week and I will probably need your chick IDing services.
I've got a question for you, on your BYC page it says that you hatched 300 keet last year, how many breeder females did it take to get that many?
He does say in the article that he is making alot of assumptions because of the lack of Guinea gentic information out there, but if you have proved that some of his theories are wrong you should contact the writer as I think he would want to know.
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Not necessarily, this is from Guinea Fowl Internationa:
"How pied birds appear is still open to debate. One current opinion is that you need one white gene to produce a pied bird, and two to produce a white bird. But I have discussed this with several good friends of mine who happen to...