can anyone tell me please what breed of guinee this is.

can anyone please tell me what breed of guinee he is.

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He has all his feathers and is already doing the chi-chi chant i have a girl too that is doing the buck wheat chant or as i call it hood rat i appreciate u telling me this but all his feathers are in but he is my baby n i was just curious ive got 3 females and a boy full grown i incubated several eggs and all the rest looked like the mothers and father ive been doing this for several years but never had one look like him thanks
Your keet is far from having all of its adult feathers. It has not even lost its head feathers yet.

All guineas can make the "male" sound and at it's age most female guineas will not buckwheat yet.
 
Ive heard her do it i dont care who believes me to be honest i was just wanting too no what breed of guinee i had
No one is saying that you aren't telling the truth. It is not uncommon for guinea hens to start buckwheating at 6 weeks old. You say these keets are 2 months old. I believe that you know that you have a female keet. What I was saying is that while you can confirm that the one that is buckwheating is a hen, you can't automatically assume that the others that have not made the buckwheat sound are males since not all hens especially those that are low in the pecking order will buckwheat that early.

You know what breed your guinea is. The color varieties are not separate breeds. They are just different colors of the same breed. At this stage, I cannot say what color your guinea is. Very young keets have patterns that are known to develop into certain colors. The stages that they go through before reaching full adulthood are not well documented. If you have in focus pictures of them when they were a couple of days old, post those pictures and they may be helpful in identifying what color of guinea you have. In some cases you just have to wait until they have all of their adult feathers which should happen by the time they are 6 months old.
 
Your little guinea looks like the Slate color. Dark bluish grey with shades of brown on it's back. There shouldn't be quite as much brown when it gets adult feathers. I hatched several of them last year and they came from different colored parents. I kept a male Slate and your little one looks a lot like him as far as color. Since I had 7 different colors of guineas I can't swear who the parents were. But I had no Slates when the color showed up in a batch of keets. @R2elk is right about recessive color genes that can show up with different colored males and females
Slates are uncommon so you should be pleased to probably have one of the more rare colors. ;)
 
Your little guinea looks like the Slate color. Dark bluish grey with shades of brown on it's back. There shouldn't be quite as much brown when it gets adult feathers. I hatched several of them last year and they came from different colored parents. I kept a male Slate and your little one looks a lot like him as far as color. Since I had 7 different colors of guineas I can't swear who the parents were. But I had no Slates when the color showed up in a batch of keets. @R2elk is right about recessive color genes that can show up with different colored males and females
Slates are uncommon so you should be pleased to probably have one of the more rare colors. ;)
Your little guinea looks like the Slate color. Dark bluish grey with shades of brown on it's back. There shouldn't be quite as much brown when it gets adult feathers. I hatched several of them last year and they came from different colored parents. I kept a male Slate and your little one looks a lot like him as far as color. Since I had 7 different colors of guineas I can't swear who the parents were. But I had no Slates when the color showed up in a batch of keets. @R2elk is right about recessive color genes that can show up with different colored males and females
Slates are uncommon so you should be pleased to probably have one of the more rare colors. ;)
Thank you so they are pretty rare it just amazed me to have the helmeted guinees and he popped out lol he will fly on my arm when i hold my arm out i no alot of people say guinees cant be tamed but mine are i incubate and when they hatch i spend alot of time with them they dont much too be held n such but he loves to fly on my arm and ride on my back when im walking around in the yard lol thank you again☺
 
Thank you so they are pretty rare it just amazed me to have the helmeted guineas and he popped out
Other than to keep saying that your guineas are Helmeted Guineas, you have not said what color variety your guineas are. I assume that you have Pearl Gray guineas. That is a dominant color and dotting pattern so they can be carrying any of the recessive color genes and recessive dotting patterns without those colors being exhibited. When the right pair of guineas mate, the offspring can inherit a recessive gene from both parents allowing the different color and/or dotting pattern to be displayed in the offspring.

Your keet is a Helmeted Guinea Fowl. It's color variety may well be Slate.
 
Thank you so they are pretty rare it just amazed me to have the helmeted guinees and he popped out lol he will fly on my arm when i hold my arm out i no alot of people say guinees cant be tamed but mine are i incubate and when they hatch i spend alot of time with them they dont much too be held n such but he loves to fly on my arm and ride on my back when im walking around in the yard lol thank you again☺

Guineas come in a lot of different colors. I think the ones you are calling helmeted guinea fowl are just the Pearl Grey color which is the original color that all colors were developed from. But all of them, including the Slate and Pearl Grey, are helmeted guinea fowl. So we hope that answers your 'breed' question.
We know it can be confusing when you first start learning about guineas. But we are glad to hear that you are enjoying your little ones! ;)
 
Other than to keep saying that your guineas are Helmeted Guineas, you have not said what color variety your guineas are. I assume that you have Pearl Gray guineas. That is a dominant color and dotting pattern so they can be carrying any of the recessive color genes and recessive dotting patterns without those colors being exhibited. When the right pair of guineas mate, the offspring can inherit a recessive gene from both parents allowing the different color and/or dotting pattern to be displayed in the offspring.

Your keet is a Helmeted Guinea Fowl. It's color variety may well be Slate.
They are pearl grays
 

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