Help with Guinea Keet Colors :)

[flgardengirl]

DH surprised me w some silkie chicks and 3 guinea keets this morning. The feed store said the keets are 1 lavender and 2 white. One of the white ones has a brown spot on his head like a cuckoo chick lol. Can anyone tell me if any of these are pied or if you agree w the feed store coloring etc. Thanks

 

[R2elk]

DH surprised me w some silkie chicks and 3 guinea keets this morning. The feed store said the keets are 1 lavender and 2 white. One of the white ones has a brown spot on his head like a cuckoo chick lol. Can anyone tell me if any of these are pied or if you agree w the feed store coloring etc. Thanks
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Feed store is likely right. My understanding is that white keets can have a small non-white spot on top of their heads

 

[flgardengirl]

Ok cool. Is there a way to tell if they will be pied or not when they are keets?

 

[R2elk]

Ok cool. Is there a way to tell if they will be pied or not when they are keets?

It depends on the color that is associated with the pied color. It could be difficult to tell a Pied Royal Purple from a regular Royal Purple since a normal Royal Purple has lots of white on it to start. A Pied Pearl Gray is easy to distinguish because a normal Pearl Gray does not have white on it and a Pied Pearl Gray does have white on it along with the dark back and head colors.

Helmeted Guinea Fowl Color Chart

Scroll down to the bottom to see the pied keets.

 

[flgardengirl]

Thank you I will save that chart. It is very helpful. We had 5 Pearl Grey gineas for years and 2 were pied. I honestly dont remember if there was a difference when they were chicks. Im so happy to have guineas again