Solid neck vs pearled neck pattern?

[ozguineafowl]

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Feather pattern covers colour as well as markings

 

[ozguineafowl]

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Good colour means good even colour on that keet

Ok...so, if the bird has dark spots and light spots (uneven coloring) the have bad coloring?

I am not refering to the spots I am refering to the feather colour and good even colour in better IMO

 

[PeepsCA]

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Feather pattern covers colour as well as markings

Never heard or read that before, pertaining to Guineas over here in the US that I can recall anyway. Color is color and pearling (or more so the amounts there of) is consider pattern, each combination equating to the individually identified varieties that are most commonly bred/sold here in the US.

If you have time you should check out this site and and this site . These guys know their Guinea Fowl genetics stuff, especially when it comes to developing new varieties of Guinea fowl. They are responsible for developing the majority of what's now available all across the US. Order some eggs, might help you guys develope a little more variety down there!

 

[ozguineafowl]

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Feather pattern covers colour as well as markings

Never heard or read that before, pertaining to Guineas over here in the US that I can recall anyway. Color is color and pearling (or more so the amounts there of) is consider pattern, each combination equating to the individually identified varieties that are most commonly bred/sold here in the US.

Plumage [feather] Patterns in Guinea Fowl http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page8.html does not cover the red eye as there has never been a geno study but you get the idea


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Feather pattern covers colour as well as markings

Order some eggs, might help you guys develope a little more variety down there!

Not possible unfortunate at this stage due to govt regulations here

 

[TatersChickens]

Hi I am trying to find someone to sell me Guinea feathers and I need a lot. I see that you have 125+ and that many Guinea`s must have a lot of shedding feathers, BUT WOULD YOU WANT TO GATHER THAT MANY FEATHERS FOR ME AND HOW MUCH WOULD YOU CHARGE IF YOU DID WANT TO GATHER THEM? Fluff up to 4 to 5 inches would be great. thank you Tater

 

[PeepsCA]

Hi Tater,
Sorry but my birds have molted already and I've cleaned out/raked out all my coops and pens for the end of year, so there's not many to collect right now. In the past, in the Fall when they have stopped laying eggs I've caught individual birds and "harvested" a few choice flank and lower body feathers off of them for a lady that makes jewelry with the feathers... But this time of year with all the wet, cold, windy weather I would not do that because the birds don't need the extra air conditioning, lol. I may be able to collect some for you in the Spring when the Hens start laying eggs in the coops, because they tend to pull a brood patch from their lower breast/underside so the nests have a little softness to them and their eggs have skin to shell contact. Other than that they will all molt again in the Fall... which is when I normally collect lots of feathers. It typically looks like it's snowed here in September/October, in the coops/pens and allover my 10 acres, lol. But check with me again mid Spring and we'll see if I can round some up for you. I don't charge for the feathers, but do I charge for the flat rate postage on a large padded envelope

 

[bemba]

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Yes it is my bird, but I didn't breed it, & yes I live in Australia

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That is correct, both our silver & cinnamon here in Australia have red eyes (silver product of two mutations, lavender & cinnamon). It makes them unique, but does have disadvantage in that the red-eyed birds have sight issues, so much more prone to predation. I would love some of your normal eyed colour varieties here because they could run with the flock free-ranging, more safely.

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You know, just maybe the ? genes/alleles responsible for both solid & pearled neck pattern are different to those responsible for TB down pattern & pied markings? Maybe it was coincidence that factors for pearl neck pattern & TB down pattern just happened to be in the selected birds in the Italian study? Although genes that largely affect down colour only do exist I had thought that the TB down pattern may have indicated some alteration in adult plumage, something like the partially pearled Royal Purple Guinea keets having irregular lines/stripes?

Peeps, are the two cinnamon hens both slightly pied? Can't see the bird on the left too well but does look like a little visible white upper breast area?

Hi Rollyard, I have both the cinnamon and silver guineas, and actually bred my silvers originally by breeding a cinn cock to a lavender hen, then putting them back to either cinn split lavs or lavs split cinns..... It really is a fantastic colour combo, and recessive, but yes the eye thing is a down side, but saying that all mine free range and do really well, and some seem worse than others, and some seem to have no problem at all?

 

[ozguineafowl]

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Hi TatersChickens if I could I would give you any amount of feather from the sex linked cinnamons and the other colours but our laws prevent that. Can I ask what you use them for?

 

[perchie.girl]

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Hi TatersChickens if I could I would give you any amount of feather from the sex linked cinnamons and the other colours but our laws prevent that. Can I ask what you use them for?

Hi OZguineafowl... welcome

to BYC Guineas.... Not Taters here.... LOL... But the feathers can be used for lots of things.... from fly tying to Artwork and earrings. I am going to try my hand at earrings and art in the form of hand painting on the feathers.

 

[ozguineafowl]

Sound great I would love to see some of your painting when they are done.

Thanks very much for the welcome