What is the prettiest color of guinea?

[Mommi3130]

I want to get some guinea keets, but don't know what color to get? What is your favorite color in guineas and why?

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

i like pied, it looks like a pearl but it has white on its chest just search on google pied

 

[Akane]

Slate. They start out a cute little brown and then grow slate colored feathers but they aren't just a solid slate blue. They have subtle other colors and differences between them. It's an interesting color from keet to adult. Violet is somewhat similar and also starts out as tan keets and then grow to their interesting mix of shades.

Of course everything is better with the pied gene on it but I'd take a pied slate, violet, or coral blue over pied pearl any day.

Where are you getting keets? It's getting kind of late in the year. I know guinea farm has a good portion of theirs not laying. You can get eggs shipped to you but you won't get much choice in color. Most just offer a certain mix of colors depending what they run together. Odds are if you really want certain colors you'll have to wait until spring unless you want common colors.

 

[featheredfriendlover]

ALL of THEM!!!!!

white, pearl,pied,lavender,slate,royal purple,chocolate,powder blue??, ect, ect,ect.

I LOVE MY GUINEAS!!!

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Lavender!

 

[Aj1911]

i love my pearled guineas

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

Lavender!

 

[feathersgalore]

Slate are my favorite. I finally got a slate keet this year (although I do have adult slates).

 

[Kev]

The lady who gave me a pair had ALL colors of guineas on her property. Pied Slates were the ones that caught my eye.. fortunately she managed to catch a pied Slate and gave him to me with a pied Pearl hen.

I have to say.. they had babies now nearly full grown and one of them is a regular Pearl.. she does seem very pretty with the complex dotting all over. Unfortunately all of the other guineas are really mean to her, including her parents.

OT: does anyone know the genetics for Slate?

 

[Guinea Goonie]

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Agreed. I keep as many colors as I can get !!

Here is a helpful chart .....

http://guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/colors/index.html


The pied can come in many different colors, but you gotta get lucky.