White Guinea Keet?

[MillersFarm]

So long story short one of my broody chickens found a nest of 7 guinea eggs and decided to hatch them and a few of her own eggs. Now, I have no adult white guineas what so ever. I have lavender, Pearl gray, Royal purple, coral blue, and 2 pied mixes. Yet one of the keets turned out completely white..

How did I get this guy? I do have a few roosters in with my guineas but I doubt it's a chicken/guinea mix.. could it have come from my pied mix pair?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

So long story short one of my broody chickens found a nest of 7 guinea eggs and decided to hatch them and a few of her own eggs. Now, I have no adult white guineas what so ever. I have lavender, Pearl gray, Royal purple, coral blue, and 2 pied mixes. Yet one of the keets turned out completely white..
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How did I get this guy? I do have a few roosters in with my guineas but I doubt it's a chicken/guinea mix.. could it have come from my pied mix pair?
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Maybe it’s an albino guinea

 

[MillersFarm]

That was my first thought.. But aren't albino anything suppose to have Pink* eyes..?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

That was my first thought.. But aren't albino anything suppose to have red eyes..?

Yup.
Maybe white in guineas is recessive and your pair of pied guineas each have the gene.
@The Moonshiner may be able to help you out.

 

[MillersFarm]

Yup.
Maybe white in guineas is recessive and your pair of pied guineas each have the gene.
@The Moonshiner may be able to help you out.

Could be.. I know nothing when it comes to genetics though

 

[Pyxis]

It's not albino Pied is actually one copy of white, pretty much. Two copies of pied and the keets are white. So if you breed pied to pied you get 25% solid, 50% pied, and 25% white keets.

 

[MillersFarm]

It's not albino Pied is actually one copy of white, pretty much. Two copies of pied and the keets are white. So if you breed pied to pied you get 25% solid, 50% pied, and 25% white keets.

Thank you for the reply~! I was starting to wonder if I had a chuinea How cool is that though.. Was kind of hoping for another pied but an all white guinea looks pretty cool as well.

 

[Pyxis]

Thank you for the reply~! I was starting to wonder if I had a chuinea How cool is that though.. Was kind of hoping for another pied but an all white guinea looks pretty cool as well.

Here's the good news: white bred to solid gives all pied So there are more pied guineas in your future.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It's not albino Pied is actually one copy of white, pretty much. Two copies of pied and the keets are white. So if you breed pied to pied you get 25% solid, 50% pied, and 25% white keets.

This is how it works. I started backwards producing pied from a white hen crossed with a lavender male.
Had same thing happen with muscovies. Had a white male and white and solid colored hens. That year all I hatched was whites and pied.

 

[Pyxis]

This is how it works. I started backwards producing pied from a white hen crossed with a lavender male.
Had same thing happen with muscovies. Had a white male and white and solid colored hens. That year all I hatched was whites and pied.

Very cool about the 'scovies! In Calls it works differently, white is recessive and they have to have two copies to be white, and pied is a different set of genes. And then in chickens it can be dominant or recessive. It's interesting how the genetics vary between species.