New colored guinea keets have arrived!

[Pathfinders]

Well, my one lone Coral Blue keet will no longer be so lonely, the box of colored keets I ordered from McMurray (with my forgotten credit) arrived this morning and they are all settling in well. The loner is only a week older, and seems to be adjusting to all the babies very well (I was a little worried about pecking, but he/she seems glad to have buddies!)

Pictures to follow...

 

[sred98]

Oh yes! Definitely need pics!

Shelly

 

[Pathfinders]

Ok, here ya go. First pic is the one week older keet wondering where all the new babbies came from!:

I think the rust colored one might be a Violet!

And two more in which you can see what I think are Royal Purple, Buff Dundotte, and either Lavender or more Coral Blues:

I think there are some Opaline too, but can't be sure. Will be fun to watch them feather out and see what I've got!

 

[sred98]

Oh wow! So many colors! I couldn't even begin to figure out what's what! LOL! That would be super cool if that one ended up a violet! Might be some opaline in there. I'd love some porcelains. You definitely got a great variety.

Thanks for the eye candy!

Shelly

 

[shelleyd2008]

Wow! I didn't realize McMurray had such nice colored keets! I might have to get some in the spring!

Congrats on the new babies!! I think the buff dundotte is either brown or chocolate, my dundottes don't usually have stripes on their heads that are very visible.

guinea fowl international color chart has a lot of good pictures of the different colors

 

[Pathfinders]

That's a great chart, thanks! I may take more pictures tomorrow or Sat, after they've really settled in and when I have a teen home to hold them for me while I shoot.

I was very pleased to get these from McM, especially this time of year. I had completely forgotten I had a credit with them too, so it made them seem inexpensive (as normally they very much aren't!)

 

[SimplyForties]

What a great bunch! I'll bet your "old" baby is wondering what happened!

 

[Pathfinders]

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It does look rather stunned at times, but seems to be glad not to be so alone (the stuffed animal I had put in there would keep falling over!)

 

[blackred]

Here is a link to Ralph Winters site that has a color chart with pictures of Guinea keets.
http://www.guineafarm.com/descriptions.html

If they free range I personally don't care for the white ones. They stick out like a sore thumb at night when roosting in trees and the owls clean them out first.

Bob

 

[featheredfriendlover]

WOW!!!!!!!!!

those are some of the cutest keets ive ever seen.

you DEFINENTLY need to update us every week on those little guys.


there beautiful....



i love them all.

i love the expression on the older keets face. its like hes saying holy cow!!! where did all u little ankle biters come from.