Sorry, I'm slow on follow up. I was toying w/genetic factors & for once, letting go of absolutes. If original goons were PG, how did we end up with blue?
There've been many instances where someone has said, "this is my ---," and someone says that's not what it is bc of those random feathers.
They used to say that if a green eyed woman married a brown eyed man, and gave birth to a blue eyed baby, she cheated. Eventually they realized that recessive genes from a gpa w/blue eyes could make an appearance. That's a scientific fact.
So if we went from wild PGs to having RP, BR,BD,WH,BL,LAV domestics- then why wouldn't we see recessive colors coming out randomly? There has to be some explanation for it, bc we've seen it. It's not as if we're photo shopping our bird pics.
I sent pics of Numi to GF acknowledging he is a fully dotted lavender, but asked abt the random blues and fluffy white on him. The explanation given was that it wasn't that unusual, he'll molt 2-3x before settling to all lavender.
It might be, too, that being inside has slowed his molting process, bc he has lost feathers but not in large quantities.
Today I let the girls out for the first time since the snowstorm. We had the area around the coop cleared of snow, though other parts of the yard still have pretty good drifts. A coyote came near the yard from the field; Mia & Mama went straight to the trees, Brodie disappeared for a few hours but then got in the tree with her Mama....and now they won't come out. We've put down a straw path, tried rattling millet, calling, all I got in response is angry chattering.
We've left the lights on back there and in the coop and the coop door open..see pros and cons to that but would feel awful if they do follow the light and come down only to find they're locked out, so I'll go out in a.m. to rake it around and make sure nothing has crawled in.
they have an owl-less night. 
At least your guineas flew into a tree instead of being eaten! Have they gotten back into the coop now?
