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[PeepsCA]

my first babies of 2013!!!!

Guineaguy, those are adorable keets!!!! Cute, cute, cute.

One word of advice, get them off the newspaper asap if you haven't already. Use heavily textured paper towels, old bath towels (without strings hanging out all over the place like most of my towels, LOL) or rubberized shelf liner. Keets need a lot of texture so that their legs and feet develop properly. They have too much trouble standing, or simply can't, on a slick surface.

Hmmm, I see combs on those "keets", lol.

I agree with JLeigh about the newspaper, horrible bedding for any type of newly hatched babies. Splayed legs is pretty easily fixable if caught in time, but other injuries or deformities that can be caused by too much slipping on slick surfaces aren't so easy to correct (plus these injuries or deformities cause them pain)

Hope you've put them on something better, that provides plenty of traction...

 

[PeepsCA]

Hey peeps these are what I think my blonde/chocolates are looking more like the hen looks the closest to this especially wings on both body color is still different

Those would be considered Blondes, in my flocks. But all of my colors tend to run darker than most.

Think the guineas are starting to feel like spring the royal purple and the opaline Roos just had a knock down feathers flying and one a running away and the other on its tail feathers all over five acres and the others running after those two. Lol

Quote: It's only just begun... grab a chair and watch the races. Is this going to be your first Guinea breeding season? I can't remember how long you've had Guineas.

The bruises will turn green on their head/face, so don't be alarmed if you've never seen that before. And you might want to keep a close eye on the wounds (if the skin was broken), because if there's blood/scabs showing the other birds will be attracted to pecking at the wounds... and that can quickly turn into the injured birds being cannibalized by the rest of your flock. Blu-Kote hides blood/wounds really well, as well as helps them heal quick. (Most feed or farm stores that sell livestock or horse medications carry Blu-Kote).

 

[guineaguy]

Lol I never said they were keets jleigh did or assumed. They are blue laced red Wyandottes and a Cochin bantam.

 

[guineaguy]

i must have sucker written all over me I go to a swap meet and there I find this and of course I buy it cause I can't stand it to be there not being taken care of properly or going where it won't be so home it comes and the worming and preventative stuff starts before intro to flock. Peeps so if I understand right this one can only produce pieds and blue/black genes if my coral blue hens have white flight feathers does that make them pieds as well they have no body markings thought pieds had to have body white?the only pied I have if I keep it.

 

[PeepsCA]

Congrats I have 3 of those in my flocks, 1 Hen 2 males. Is it a Hen?

That bird has the potential to produce hatches with 50% Pied keets, if bred to a non-Pied bird/bird without any white flights. The colors it will produce will depend on what hidden genes it's carrying. I have at least a dozen blue and lite blue birds that do not produce any dark colored (Royal Purple or Pearl Grey) keets... I have purposely tried to breed away from my light birds throwing any dark colors in their hatches tho. Just having white flight feathers is not technically considered Pied, but they may be carrying a touch of the Pied gene. People argue that point tho. I've never gotten Pied keets from a pair of birds that both had white flights, so I'm still on the fence about white flights being related to the Pied gene

 

[guineaguy]

It seems to be a juvenile it has not molted its baby feathers and gotten its adult yet the tail feathers I noticed the most. As of now I'm leaning towards rooster it only makes the ratatat noise no hen call. Thought about putting him on my coral blue hens. Would free up the opaline or give him less hens to cover. Lol

 

[JLeigh]

Lol I never said they were keets jleigh did or assumed. They are blue laced red Wyandottes and a Cochin bantam.

I must have been looking at the picture without my glasses! The "cute" I could see easily regardless.

 

[waddle watcher]

Don't know exactly what colors your referring too but they sound very high strung. Is that the result of all the creative breeding and does that sometime result in unwanted fowl that you discard however? Regards, waddlewatcher

 

[PeepsCA]

All colors/varieties of Guineas are high strung (especially the males during breeding season... the extra aggression/fighting and chasing is normal), color makes no difference at all.