Keet Color ID’s? First Guinea Hatch!!

[MissTracy]

So hey ya’ll, I just got back from a girls’ trip and LOOK at these colors coming in!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

So hey ya’ll, I just got back from a girls’ trip and LOOK at these colors coming in!View attachment 2161934View attachment 2161935

Oh how lovely!!! I think that you have some pied keets! Do you think that the more uniformly brown keet is a blonde? I saw that you had an adult of that color, but I don’t know anything about it!

 

[MissTracy]

Oh how lovely!!! I think that you have some pied keets! Do you think that the more uniformly brown keet is a blonde? I saw that you had an adult of that color, but I don’t know anything about it!

I think that is a blonde and a pied blonde? It is very exciting to me because my blonde guinea is one of my better hens (currently broody and sitting with a pearl broody over probably 30+ eggs).

 

[MissTracy]

Alright - had a mystery little guy hatch yesterday. Lavender pied maybe?

 

[R2elk]

Alright - had a mystery little guy hatch yesterday. Lavender pied maybe?View attachment 2190533View attachment 2190534

Definitely not a Lavender. Lavenders are fully dotted and have an unbroken center stripe on their head. Looks like a Coral Blue to me.

 

[MissTracy]

Definitely not a Lavender. Lavenders are fully dotted and have an unbroken center stripe on their head. Looks like a Coral Blue to me.

I am having some serious weird genetics happening in my back yard

 

[R2elk]

I am having some serious weird genetics happening in my back yard

Maybe not. Lavender has two blue genes. If your Lavenders are heterozygous for the full dotting gene and the partial dotting gene, they can easily make Coral Blues that have two blue genes and partial dotting genes.

 

[MissTracy]

Maybe not. Lavender has two blue genes. If your Lavenders are heterozygous for the full dotting gene and the partial dotting gene, they can easily make Coral Blues that have two blue genes and partial dotting genes.

That is so cool! I do not pretend to understand how the color genes are expressed. If I were to keep this and add it to the flock, it would increase my blues next hatching season? Or possibly lavenders? Or both?

 

[R2elk]

That is so cool! I do not pretend to understand how the color genes are expressed. If I were to keep this and add it to the flock, it would increase my blues next hatching season? Or possibly lavenders? Or both?

If you keep it, it will add another homozygous blue to your flock. If it gets crossed with a Lavender that already is heterozygous for full dotting and partial dotting, it will cause both more Lavenders and Coral Blues.

 

[MissTracy]

So how long have you been doing this? Do you have a million guineas running around??