Just hatched some keets and would like to know about the colors

[pbjmaker]

I hatched 4 keets yesterday and would like to know more about their colors. They came with some mystery swap eggs and I know nothing about guinea colors although I do know somethings about their behavior when they grow up

 

[StevenW.]

1.Lavendar
2.Royal Purple Pied..?
3.Pearl

Gosh I miss those days when they were that small!

 

[GuineaLady93]

First one is a Lavender.
Second looks like it could be a Bronze?.?. If not a Bronze then a Royal Purple or Pied Pearl.
Third is a Pearl.

 

[livenwpeeps]

The first one is a Lavender.

The second one could be a Royal Purple but I can't see the head that well. If it has sqiggly lines on his head it's a Royal Purple. If it has one wide stripe with a smaller stripe on both sides of the wide one it's a Pearl Pied.

The third one is a Pearl.

 

[PeepsCA]

Lavender, Pied Pearl Grey, regular Pearl Grey.
Cute

 

[pbjmaker]

Are any of these colors more desirable than the others? I wish I could keep them but I live in a city and they just won't work here. I am trying to figure out how to market them for auction this Sunday. I REALLY REALLY wish I could grow them out

How long until they become loud? I could maybe keep them until the final auction in October or the big swap September 25th. Just not sure if I will get much for them as "day olds" because people will be thinking about having to grow them out.

I did discover they will make a leap of death out of the incubator. They are almost as nutty as my button quail.

 

[PeepsCA]

They usually start finding their voices at around 5-6 wks old, but don't become really noisy (as in sounding their alarm call at every little thing) until about 8-10 wks old.
The Pearl Grey is the most common Guinea color, but if I were you I'd want them to go all together... and stay together. Guineas are much happier in flocks. I'd worry that if you sold them one at a time they are more than likely going to end up on someone's dinner table

Are they still in the incubator?

 

[pbjmaker]

They were still in the bator when I took that picture. I had plugged in my heat lamp and the bulb wasn't working so I had to do some rearranging to get another heat source for them and it had to wait for me to get home from work. They are now in a brooder. They had food and water in there, so were fine.

I was going to put them all together but then was thinking of putting two and two. The auction I am going to has tons of guineas usually but they sell really well around here.

I seriously wish I could find a way to keep them.