Broody guinea hatch

[R2elk]

Aw, congrats! They're much cuter out of the shell! so the white/tan is violet?

Violet keet

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Aw, congrats! They're much cuter out of the shell! so the white/tan is violet?

That’s what the seller calls that color, and that’s how the color appears on this website:

https://guineas.com/colorchart

However, other sources say that the violet adult is a black color that resembles royal purple in some lights. My “Violet” adult looks more like my slate hen (see pic taken in late spring, slate in front, “violet” in back) and is a dusky clay color with reddish wings. Neither Slate nor Violet have any dotting. As a juvenile, I saw some violet color but she mostly looks dusty colored now. As a half grown juvenile, Violet was the most amazing mix of colors that would flash different colors as the light hit her feathers, but I couldn’t capture that on camera. Both Slate and Violet are bleached from the sun and look similar now, with solid dark legs. As keets, they looked with the slate and violet keets from the color chart linked above.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Violet keet
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Similar looking though my keet’s head is not so dark, more the same auburn color as the back. I’ll try to get a better picture but mom is still very nervous around me.

 

[R2elk]

That’s what the seller calls that color, and that’s how the color appears on this website:

https://guineas.com/colorchart

However, other sources say that the violet adult is a black color that resembles royal purple in some lights. My “Violet” adult looks more like my slate hen (see pic taken in late spring, slate in front, “violet” in back) and is a dusky clay color with reddish wings. Neither Slate nor Violet have any dotting. As a juvenile, I saw some violet color but she mostly looks dusty colored now. As a half grown juvenile, Violet was the most amazing mix of colors that would flash different colors as the light hit her feathers, but I couldn’t capture that on camera. Both Slate and Violet are bleached from the sun and look similar now, with solid dark legs. As keets, they looked with the slate and violet keets from the color chart linked above.

I suspect that your Violet is not a violet since they are supposed to be a non-dotted black guinea very similar to a Royal Purple without any dotting.

There are a number of colors that have similar looks as keets but wholly different looks as adults. I cannot tell Royal Purple keets apart from Bronze keets but you can tell them apart as adults..

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I suspect that your Violet is not a violet since they are supposed to be a non-dotted black guinea very similar to a Royal Purple without any dotting.

There are a number of colors that have similar looks as keets but wholly different looks as adults. I cannot tell Royal Purple keets apart from Bronze keets but you can tell them apart as adults..

Well Violet and Slate are both non-dotted somethings! Violet has never been black. In the absence of more info, I guess I’ll just keet calling her color violet since the keet and adult color match that website pretty well... Pictures as juveniles attached.

 

[Sydney65]

That’s what the seller calls that color, and that’s how the color appears on this website:

https://guineas.com/colorchart

However, other sources say that the violet adult is a black color that resembles royal purple in some lights. My “Violet” adult looks more like my slate hen (see pic taken in late spring, slate in front, “violet” in back) and is a dusky clay color with reddish wings. Neither Slate nor Violet have any dotting. As a juvenile, I saw some violet color but she mostly looks dusty colored now. As a half grown juvenile, Violet was the most amazing mix of colors that would flash different colors as the light hit her feathers, but I couldn’t capture that on camera. Both Slate and Violet are bleached from the sun and look similar now, with solid dark legs. As keets, they looked with the slate and violet keets from the color chart linked

I do see dusty colors on her now that you point it out. Their development is odd-until I zoomed in I would have said she looks like Nugget -my lavender. But he's the only one in the batch I could identify w/certainty. R2Elk had to identify the rest. Ppl often think the RPs are black until the sun hits their feathers. Someone on here once posted an RP that showed stunning purple. Don't think they're on anymore, atleast didn't respond to my comment. But was a beauty.
It will be interesting to see what I end up with. Looking at genetics, I have a feeling all or most will be pied grays but it wld be nice to get one variance of brown/tan.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I suspect that your Violet is not a violet since they are supposed to be a non-dotted black guinea very similar to a Royal Purple without any dotting.

There are a number of colors that have similar looks as keets but wholly different looks as adults. I cannot tell Royal Purple keets apart from Bronze keets but you can tell them apart as adults..

Actually, poking around a little more, I wonder if Violet is actually a pastel?
http://www.guineafarm.com/product/pastel-keet/

 

[Sydney65]

Actually, poking around a little more, I wonder if Violet is actually a pastel?
http://www.guineafarm.com/product/pastel-keet/

That was what I was wondering but- lol- you went to the same site I did. I love this guy's site!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

We had a lot of lavender keets last year so could really tell that they are not lavender. Lavender had the full dotting but neither of these birds (Slate and Violet) has any dotting at all. Here’s a pic with a lavender cock, two royal purples, Slate, and a pearl pied cock for comparison.

 

[Sydney65]

That was what I was wondering but- lol- you went to the same site I did. I love this guy's site!

Oh. The "but" part- I don't see red, and can't focus to decide the colors in back-gray?blue? Black?