PurpleXLavender =?

[PeepsCA]

Hmm ok, you didn't state that you knew the difference between Buff and Buff Dundotte in your post... and to me you came across as you were thinking they were the same color/variety, so I was just trying to be helpful and point out they are different (not everyone knows that).

If by slight purple hue you are referring to the iridescence sheen that Guineas get... that is seasonal, and common, depending on diet/health/time of year/time of molt etc. IME it does not have any relation to hidden recessives

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

Even out of the sun he had the purple hue on the base of his neck/chest and his flanks, it was quite neat, none of my other buff dundottes ever showed that. Had that male for almost 6 yrs, he was by far my favorit. After he passed away thats when I went out of guineas(also because the group seemed to have lost its collective IQ and turned into screeching coyote-bait... appearantly he had the only brains in the bunch).

In any case am looking for either a buff or buff dundotte male now, might as well throw as many colours in the mix as possible to get (hopefully) a colourful batch or two of keets.
So buff being solid and the royal purple partially pearled I can assume keets out of said cross would only be partially pearled, unlike keets out of Buff Dundotte over Royal Purple which will be completely pearled(fully pearled being dominant)? In either cross colour will be determined more or less by what they carry HIDDEN(if anything, very likely around here that they are very colourful DNA wise).

Just double checking if I got it all straight(more or less)....

PS: I know what you mean by not many people knowing the difference with some colours. Around here there is grey with dots and non-grey with dots.....

*edited* to fix error about pearling on buffs...... was having a moment.

 

[guineaguy]

Your buff dundotte was actually a porcelain if he had blue hued feathers on him that's how you got some of the variety you did because he carried both the brown and blue genes if he had been partialed pearled he would have been a opaline.

 

[PeepsCA]

He may have been a Lite Lavender that was only showing the lite Lavender color on his lower body areas, and then a sun faded cream/tan wash over his neck and back. Lite lavenders also carry both the blue and buff/tan genes, not just the Porcelains (and Opalines).