2021 guinea hatches

[My2butterflies]

Love seeing everyone’s keets!
I just hatched my last keets for the year. That puts me at a modest 68 hatched for the year.
6 royal purple, one white, 13 lavender, 11 lavender pied, 14 pied pearl, 23 pearl.
It’s been a fun season!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Love seeing everyone’s keets!
I just hatched my last keets for the year. That puts me at a modest 68 hatched for the year.
6 royal purple, one white, 13 lavender, 11 lavender pied, 14 pied pearl, 23 pearl.
It’s been a fun season!

That’s awesome! I don’t think I posted any of my keet pics so here are from my first two hatches, both having a terrible hatch rate, but ultimately there were 12 and 16. The first hatch (left pic) was my only one that produced a lavender. Ironic because I used to get tones of lavenders before adding new birds to my flock… The second hatch (right pic at 2 weeks) was 1/2 royal purples, two pied Pearl grey, and 6 PG. I found that second hatch interesting because it was from my violet hen’s nest that I found her incubating in a briar patch. It’s likely it had her eggs, her slate sister’s eggs, and maybe the pearl grey girl that joined Bruiser’s harem and is probably his daughter. Bruiser is a beautiful pied Pearl grey bird, but I didn’t understand why I don’t get more pied keets from him. I’ve noticed this last year too when I hatched eggs from this same pair. Given that the violet x pied PG is producing some semi-pearled keets (RP) but no attenuate or lavenders, I’m guessing that his only interesting recessive color gene is for semi-pearling…

 

[My2butterflies]

That’s awesome! I don’t think I posted any of my keet pics so here are from my first two hatches, both having a terrible hatch rate, but ultimately there were 12 and 16. The first hatch (left pic) was my only one that produced a lavender. Ironic because I used to get tones of lavenders before adding new birds to my flock… The second hatch (right pic at 2 weeks) was 1/2 royal purples, two pied Pearl grey, and 6 PG. I found that second hatch interesting because it was from my violet hen’s nest that I found her incubating in a briar patch. It’s likely it had her eggs, her slate sister’s eggs, and maybe the pearl grey girl that joined Bruiser’s harem and is probably his daughter. Bruiser is a beautiful pied Pearl grey bird, but I didn’t understand why I don’t get more pied keets from him. I’ve noticed this last year too when I hatched eggs from this same pair. Given that the violet x pied PG is producing some semi-pearled keets (RP) but no attenuate or lavenders, I’m guessing that his only interesting recessive color gene is for semi-pearling…

Cute!

I still really don’t understand guinea genetics
Im not sure where my pied pearls are coming from. Maybe my male white and female rp? I think my two while females have lavender male partners. Unless there is lots of sneaky breeding going on. I know that’s the only reason I got a white keet. My white male stole a white female for a week that I saw. And my Rps are coming from one rp pair.

Next year, hopefully, I’ll be adding buff, coral blue, pastel, and chocolate. It will make hatches even more exciting!

 

[R2elk]

15 + 2 in the hatcher.

The lower left one is a Violet.

 

[Sydney65]

That’s awesome! I don’t think I posted any of my keet pics so here are from my first two hatches, both having a terrible hatch rate, but ultimately there were 12 and 16. The first hatch (left pic) was my only one that produced a lavender. Ironic because I used to get tones of lavenders before adding new birds to my flock… The second hatch (right pic at 2 weeks) was 1/2 royal purples, two pied Pearl grey, and 6 PG. I found that second hatch interesting because it was from my violet hen’s nest that I found her incubating in a briar patch. It’s likely it had her eggs, her slate sister’s eggs, and maybe the pearl grey girl that joined Bruiser’s harem and is probably his daughter. Bruiser is a beautiful pied Pearl grey bird, but I didn’t understand why I don’t get more pied keets from him. I’ve noticed this last year too when I hatched eggs from this same pair. Given that the violet x pied PG is producing some semi-pearled keets (RP) but no attenuate or lavenders, I’m guessing that his only interesting recessive color gene is for semi-pearling…

OMG look at all the little penguin faces! Happy Feet!
@R2elk correct me if I'm wrong,but seems like I read that some traits will skip a generation, ie pied won't come out in x+y, but when their off-spring has a hatch, then it comes out. None if the hatch Bella & Mouse were from were pied. I was waiting to see, bc I thought mb Singleton was going to be. She had a white belly, white neck and chin, and white tipped wings.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Cute!

I still really don’t understand guinea genetics
Im not sure where my pied pearls are coming from. Maybe my male white and female rp? I think my two while females have lavender male partners. Unless there is lots of sneaky breeding going on. I know that’s the only reason I got a white keet. My white male stole a white female for a week that I saw. And my Rps are coming from one rp pair.

Next year, hopefully, I’ll be adding buff, coral blue, pastel, and chocolate. It will make hatches even more exciting!

I have a lot of mate swapping going on too! A set of eggs that I sold produced a coral blue! I get like one coral blue hatching per year… Where do you plan to get your buff, coral blue, etc?

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

15 + 2 in the hatcher.
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The lower left one is a Violet.

OMG - look at all of those coral blues!!! Congratulations on your hatch!!!

 

[My2butterflies]

Keets
Pearls

Pied pearls

Two lavender and 5 pied lavender

Royal purple

 

[My2butterflies]

I have a lot of mate swapping going on too! A set of eggs that I sold produced a coral blue! I get like one coral blue hatching per year… Where do you plan to get your buff, coral blue, etc?

That’s awesome!
I put in an order from the guinea farm. I think they come in September. I put in that I don’t want any substitutes, so I really hope they have all the ones I ordered.

 

[R2elk]

OMG look at all the little penguin faces! Happy Feet!
@R2elk correct me if I'm wrong,but seems like I read that some traits will skip a generation, ie pied won't come out in x+y, but when their off-spring has a hatch, then it comes out. None if the hatch Bella & Mouse were from were pied. I was waiting to see, bc I thought mb Singleton was going to be. She had a white belly, white neck and chin, and white tipped wings.

Pied does not skip generations. White crossed with solid gives pied. Pied crossed with pied should make 25% solid colored, 50% pied and 25% white. Percentages can be way off in small batches but should come out right in large quantities.

Some of the various colors have those markings as keets and it has nothing to do with being pied.

There are no pied keets in my hatch. The Coral Blues, Chocolates, Sky Blues, Royal Purple and Violet all have white bellies and are not pied.