Color help question. What color are these keets?

kyle7630

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Aug 14, 2008
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I have the same few guineas as I did last year. Pearl, Lavender, and pied of each. All babies last year were those same colors, and I kept a couple of hens from that hatch. This year, I have had two white keets pop up and now this one that looks to me like maybe a royal purple. Just wanted a little feedback on how this happens, and help identifying these keet colors. Thanks in advance.
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I'm gonna go with Royal Purple. Guineas are usually kept within a mixed flock of colors so when you hatch keets out they could look like this color but they could have the genetics for other colors hidden until they breed with another guinea that has the same gene(s) and BAM! A surprise color pops out of the egg.
 
A Pied bred with another Pied produces a certain % of pure White keets in my flocks. As for the Royal Purple showing up, at least 2 of your birds are carrying the partially pearled gene, no telling which 2 tho... but partially pearled gene + pearl grey color gene = Royal Purple keet. It's head stripe area looks a little narrow... watch for white flights feathers growing in on the Royal Purple, it might be Pied too :)
 

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