Guinea colors

[painted73dreams]

Can someone answer some questions on guinea colors for me?

 

[R2elk]

Can someone answer some questions on guinea colors for me?

It depends on what your questions are.

http://guineas.com/colorchart/

 

[painted73dreams]

R2elk I have read and screen shorted some previous advice of yours on color. Thank you it was awesome. But I'm curious on breeding by colors, not mixing. Are there dominant genes that will surprise me. Forgive me I'm just now getting into the colors. We've only had the jumbo, pearl gray, and whites. I want colors but don't want to mix them yet. Make sense?

 

[R2elk]

R2elk I have read and screen shorted some previous advice of yours on color. Thank you it was awesome. But I'm curious on breeding by colors, not mixing. Are there dominant genes that will surprise me. Forgive me I'm just now getting into the colors. We've only had the jumbo, pearl gray, and whites. I want colors but don't want to mix them yet. Make sense?

By their very nature, dominant genes can offer surprising results because they only require one gene for the dominant color to express itself. Because of this they can hide recessive color genes that may show up in the next generations. To my knowledge the only true dominant color gene in guineas is the gray color gene of the Pearl Gray guineas.

At the same time when dealing with color genes in guineas there is also the dotting gene. Fully dotted is dominant over the other dotting genes. Partially dotted is recessive to fully dotted and dominant over no dotting. No dotting is fully recessive to the other dotting genes.

The recessive color genes are not even close to being understood except when they are on their own. There are quite a few different possibilities that can happen when both the recessive blue and buff genes are found in the same combination. There is also the DSV (dark shade variance) that can muddy things also.