Thanks
I've really worked hard to get these pieds to where they are, interesting how your pieds throw a percentage of white keets, like pied peafowl do, I wonder if our pied is a different pied gene?
I'm gonna take opportunity to test my understanding of how guinea fowl's genetics work, 'cause I'm just gettin' started here ...
In regard to especially the brown colors, which are reportedly sex-linked: If true, then males require both parents to carry the gene of their color, but females only require either parent to carry the gene ... is that true of your cinnamon birds as well?
Important way to test the theory of sex-linking: If it is true, then breeding a cinnamon male to any other color hen should produce only females that are cinnamon, and all of the males will carry on the coloring of their mother. In the buff colors, it is said that all females are considerably darker than the males, which might have something to do w/ dilution or the dark shade variant (DSV), but that's well beyond me for now.
And, of the pearling? We (in the US) have full, semi and non-pearled guineas, whereas Europe has only full and semi-pearled birds, which I find no explanation for, and could provide further hints as to how the pied genes come into play ...
Some say pied birds are the result of two different traits -- one for the white color, and the other for the pattern. When coupled w/ the theories of sex-linked color for the brown birds, that might explain why you see absolutely no all white birds. In any case? The most beautiful of all guineas I've ever seen, without a doubt, are your cinnamon pied. And, to know the specifics of their generations would sure clear a few things up for me ~'-)
Yeah he is very nice! He looked the same as the 2 new keets just hatched! Amd OMG YESSS I'd love that imagine all those colours!.............. I'm now really hoping for a silver pied to pop up.
