Why is this keet silver/grey?

[angillham]

Hi, first time posting. I didn't know too much about them when I got guineas last summer from one of my husband's work friends. But from looking at them I assumed they were all pearl grey. The keets all had the same look. Anyway I decided to get an incubator and hatch out some more and one of the ones I found this morning is greyish/silver with no striping. Is it like hair color in people where you can have recessive genes come out? I had figured it was like chicken breeds. I've also heard of guinea/chicken crosses. Could that be happening? Thanks for input in advance!

 

[R2elk]

Hi, first time posting. I didn't know too much about them when I got guineas last summer from one of my husband's work friends. But from looking at them I assumed they were all pearl grey. The keets all had the same look. Anyway I decided to get an incubator and hatch out some more and one of the ones I found this morning is greyish/silver with no striping. Is it like hair color in people where you can have recessive genes come out? I had figured it was like chicken breeds. I've also heard of guinea/chicken crosses. Could that be happening? Thanks for input in advance!

Pearl Gray is two separate dominant genes. at least two of your Pearl Grays are carrying recessive color and no dotting genes.

All it take is a single Pearl Gray color gene for that trait to be displayed. The same applies to the dotting gene except a bit more complex since you can have full dotting, partial dotting and no dotting. Your new keet with a solid head color will not have any dotting.