What is the prettiest color of guinea?

[Akane]

Slate genetics aren't entirely understood yet. Guinea fowl international has a more complicated but much more complete article and tables on color genetics

http://www.guineafowlinternational.org/articles/genetics.php

 

[speckledhen]

I had lavenders and they are really my favorite. Some of the more unusual colors dont have the dots on them or have them limited to certain areas of the body and I like them dotted all over.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I have buff dundottes and lavenders. I don't like the 'normal' colors

miss_jayne has some royal purple eggs F/S in the BST forum, man, if only I had some money!!

 

[Soccer Mom]

I'm partial to my plain old Pearl guineas. When I see the nature shows on the National Geographic channel, I see them clustered around the watering holes with the other animals of the African Savannah. I think that is cool.

 

[chickenlittle32]

I love the lavenders and pied!!

 

[Marlinchaser]

I like mine lightly browned .... Oh wait this isnt the food section.

 

[Soccer Mom]

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Why you heathen!!!!!!

Everyone knows they're better roasted.

 

[Debbienmousey]

Ahh, I love all the colors I've seen.

We have owned Royal Purple, White, Pearl, and Lavender. Royal Purple are beautiful and definitely one of my favorites. White are also very pretty and another favorite. I like pearl, but they are very common so I tend to dislike them a little more than the others. I do enjoy my solid pearl hens though. I would have to say, out of the colors we've owned, Lavender is my favorite. Give it to me pied or not pied, it's always beautiful.

I would like to add a few more colors though. The Buff Dundotte I've been seeing are gorgeous! I also want some Chocolates and Coral Blues. Someday, lol.

And if I'm not mistaken pretty much any color can have pieing correct?(And I assume pied is rather dominant? We have 1 pied cock and have gotten 20+ pied keets)

 

[Kev]

Yes "pied" is dominant.. but really it's White being "semi-dominant". If you cross a white with a pearl, all of the keets will be "pieds". So it is really a case of a bird with white gene "showing some of that one white gene they have"

If you breed two pieds together, 25% of the babies will be solid white.. these are the ones pure for White.

Pied is independent of all other colors AFAIK so yes any color can be pied also.

I know, it is very confusing using "pied" knowing that genetically they really are "half whites" or split whites not true pied.. Any chance the guinea association can get the name changed?

 

[Kev]

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Thank you!

That page has a bit of strangeness here n there.. The pied part on this page really really needs to be updated or even completely removed. Jane Smith seems to have been tripped up by the "Pied" name. She tries to bring in Pied peafowl into the discussion when there is absolutely no relation.. in fact there is a genetic analogue to "pied" in guineas- White in peafowl. Cross a White with a Blue and you get Blues with white on the wings and/or chin.. the same inheritance pattern as White in guineas. The only difference is in peafowl, these birds are called Blue split White while in guineas these birds are called Pied.

Are there true pied in guineas? Patches of white on the back, tail etc same as in pied peafowl? I'm aware of guineas with so much white their whole belly and even wings were solid white though.