Babies are and adorable

[Egger4me]

Ok here is better pictures.

 

[Sydney65]

Aha..I kind of wondered before, front one in #5, I think is your coral blue w/ the buff dundottes? That's a great pic showing the diff.

I think @R2elk is testing his students, bc he isn't correcting us on these!

#1 lavenders, described as light blue with dark blue stripes and markings. It always looks gray to me.
You weren't supposed to get PGs, so #4 & #6 are either brown or you got PG.-They love,hate & eat all the same. Brown keets look the same as PG only lighter. Brown adults are gorgeous. That tripped me up with a couple I hatched bc they were lighter, in my opinion, & I kept badgering r2elk bc he said they'd be PG. They were PG.
But you weren't supposed to get some of these others, so
#3 chocolate, mostly white with irregular stripes on the head and back.
#2 is slate, not violet as we thought, bc it has no stripes or white wings.

 

[R2elk]

Aha..I kind of wondered before, front one in #5, I think is your coral blue w/ the buff dundottes? That's a great pic showing the diff.

I think @R2elk is testing his students, bc he isn't correcting us on these!

#1 lavenders, described as light blue with dark blue stripes and markings. It always looks gray to me.
You weren't supposed to get PGs, so #4 & #6 are either brown or you got PG.-They love,hate & eat all the same. Brown keets look the same as PG only lighter. Brown adults are gorgeous. That tripped me up with a couple I hatched bc they were lighter, in my opinion, & I kept badgering r2elk bc he said they'd be PG. They were PG.
But you weren't supposed to get some of these others, so
#3 chocolate, mostly white with irregular stripes on the head and back.
#2 is slate, not violet as we thought, bc it has no stripes or white wings.

The only difference in Chocolate Keets and Royal Purple keets is that the RPs are slightly darker than the Chocolates as keets.

Right now I have an inbred thing that looked like a Coral Blue as a keet but doesn't look like a Coral Blue now.

 

[Sydney65]

The only difference in Chocolate Keets and Royal Purple keets is that the RPs are slightly darker than the Chocolates as keets.

Right now I have an inbred thing that looked like a Coral Blue as a keet but doesn't look like a Coral Blue now.

Oh, I missed that, didn't I? I think we even said it was RP last night. It has the widow's peak, am I remembering right that makes it pied?

 

[Sydney65]

The only difference in Chocolate Keets and Royal Purple keets is that the RPs are slightly darker than the Chocolates as keets.

Right now I have an inbred thing that looked like a Coral Blue as a keet but doesn't look like a Coral Blue now.

So what does it look like now?

 

[Egger4me]

Here are some descriptions I found. I really don’t know what I am looking at.

 

[Sydney65]

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Well,and the one I said was blue doesn't have irregular stripes, so I'm not sure what it is. I thought it was another BD last night but your pic makes it look diff from the other 2. Look at your #3 pic - those are irregular stripes. In #1, they all have regular stripes. Buff dundottes have regular stripes, bc they'll be spotted.
Here, you can learn from my stubborness. These 2 came from the same buff dundotte male. We thought the light colored one was BD. The darker one is PG.
But by the time she grew up, she had those brown feathers in there, which classifies her as brown, not BD. That wasn't her only character flaw, believe me.

 

[Sydney65]

#2, ofcourse has no stripes. He won't have dots, and will be gorgeous (see @Mixedflockenthusiast picture earlier in thread). No stripes, no dots.
Irregular or wavy stripes can mean no dots or semi-dotted.
This gorgeous royal blue
guy is semi-pearled (dotted )

 

[Egger4me]

Well I think from what everyone has said I have good mix. Hope they are beautiful as the pictures you posted.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

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1,4,5 and 6 all have the broad center head stripe so are fully pearled. That is, they will have dots on body feathers. The colors change with lighting etc, but based on your previous pics, I’m guessing that 1 are your lavenders, 4 and 6 still look like Pearl gray to me, but if they are not then maybe brown? It’s possible 4 is lavender and I just am not seeing the blue in this light. 6 though seems to clearly have a brown rather than blue cast. 5 I don’t know. Something fully pearled and lighter colored so maybe buff dundotte? I have no personal experience with BD so am just going with Jessica Farmers pictures (Guinea Fowl Enthusiast FB group) and your list of likely colors. 2 I am pretty confident is slate. It’s an attenuate so should not have visible dots though sometimes a few ghostly dots will “bleed through” if you look hard enough. 3 is definitely semipearled. Royal purple is the most commonly seen semipearled color - we breed a ton of those because I’ve gone the “one of every color” type of approach to our flock and they pick their own mates. If you let a flock of mixed colors mate as they choose, I think Pearl gray and purple are going to be common keets with a few different colors thrown in. We used to get many lavenders but now those are rather rare for us. I’ve only gotten coral blue a few times out of hundreds of keets. At any rate, there are plenty of other semipearled colors besides RP, like coral blue, but I don’t really see the blue (lavender) cast of coral blue in this keet. It’s possible it’s something else, like bronze or chocolate, but it’s tough to tell. At any rate, you will certainly have a very colorful and lovely flock! It will be fun to watch your keets feather out and show you their own surprises.