What color are these?

[wildcat chix]

We have a pair of lavender guineas that we bought at a local stock sale. We have no idea what is in their bloodline.
We had a 100% hatch of 7 keets. The oldest is 2 days old, the rest 1 day.

Can you tell the colors of these? There is only one white (blonde / buff / ivory?) in the bunch:



The rest are colored like this, more or less:



Any help is definitely appreciated. If we end up giving any away, I'm keeping the white one regardless of what color he turns out.

 

[PeepsCA]

The lighter keets looks like a Buff Dundotte (if it's tan... since you mentioned buff), but if it's a light grey color then it's a Lite Lavender, The darker grey keets are Lavenders. Very cute, congrats!

 

[wildcat chix]

I'm extremely happy with the result, and just the 7 eggs that hatched (100% btw) have answered several questions...

1, Yes - the male and female are both fertile
2, Yes - he has sucessfully mated with her, even though we never see him do it
3, No - our RIR rooster did not sucessfully mate with her, even though we DID see him try
4, Yes - the incubator works

Having the oddball keet I am tempted to breed guineas now LOL. What are the pitfalls of breeding for different color guineas? Aside from the obvious that we're already going through with chickens? You know - wanting to keep EVERY chick that hatches, regardless of color or sex, hatching every egg in sight.

Being relatively new to chickens, and now guineas, this is an exciting time for us. I'm sure I'll have a bunch of newb guinea questions in the very near future.

I'll start with this one...Why is it that the baby chicks will jump into our hands and demand attention, but the keets act like we're going to kill them every time we feed, water, or simply walk by the brooder?!?

 

[PeepsCA]

I'm extremely happy with the result, and just the 7 eggs that hatched (100% btw) have answered several questions...

1, Yes - the male and female are both fertile
2, Yes - he has sucessfully mated with her, even though we never see him do it
3, No - our RIR rooster did not sucessfully mate with her, even though we DID see him try
4, Yes - the incubator works

Having the oddball keet I am tempted to breed guineas now LOL. What are the pitfalls of breeding for different color guineas? Aside from the obvious that we're already going through with chickens? You know - wanting to keep EVERY chick that hatches, regardless of color or sex, hatching every egg in sight.

Bull's eye, you nailed the main pitfall, lol.

Being relatively new to chickens, and now guineas, this is an exciting time for us. I'm sure I'll have a bunch of newb guinea questions in the very near future.

I'll start with this one...Why is it that the baby chicks will jump into our hands and demand attention, but the keets act like we're going to kill them every time we feed, water, or simply walk by the brooder?!?

Keets/Guineas are closer to wild birds than they are domesticated poultry... they instinctually have a keener (and often over exaggerated and self fabricated) sense of danger than chicks/chickens do.