Planning to Collect All Colors

[toptom]

Should I just buy a few certain colors to come up with all other colors as they breed? Since I already have pearl grays, I thought of buying only the solid colors plus the lavender to produce all others based on this:

http://paraguinparadise.netfirms.com/guinea_fowl colors.htm

Could I be right?

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Hello:

I would talk to people in the know about this. There is a place in Texas that raises ONLY Guinea fowl for example. They cross breed to get the colors they want to sell.
I realize that Guiena fowl genetics is pretty complicated and there are references out there that can help you deteremine which colors to cross breed to get the desired
color.
Guinea G.

 

[R2elk]

Should I just buy a few certain colors to come up with all other colors as they breed? Since I already have pearl grays, I thought of buying only the solid colors plus the lavender to produce all others based on this:

http://paraguinparadise.netfirms.com/guinea_fowl colors.htm

Could I be right?

Starting with pure pearl guineas, any crosses that you make with other colors will result in only pearl guineas in the F1 generation. The color and the dotting from pearl guineas is dominant to all other colors. Two exceptions are the case of a mutation (rare) and crossing a pearl with a white guinea. That cross will yield only pied pearl guineas in the F1 generation.

If you want all the other color variations available you most likely would need to bring in some varieties that are not dotted in order to get the colors that aren't dotted. It will also require many years of dedicated work and many, many different breeding pens so you can control which guineas are breeding together. You will have to do line breeding as well (father to daughter or mother to son).

Check out Ralph Winter's Guinea Farm:

http://www.guineafarm.com/

Also the guinea fowl genetics site and others:

http://www.guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/genetics/

http://www.guineafowlinternational.org/colorchart/

http://www.gfba.org/

 

[toptom]

I see! Thanks to you both!