We purchased seven different varieties of guinea fowl. Each variety has distinct markings that help you identify them as keets (babies). This little one should be a royal purple. Royal purples are very dark and black in color with a purple shine. They have irregular dotting and barring in their flank area. THey show their color best in full sun.
Chocolate...they will be dark brown with a few dots and bars in the flank area.
Brown...dark brown with white dots.
coral blue...medium blue with darker coral blue on the neck, chest and back. A few dots and bars in the flank.
This one is pied, which means it will look somewhat like a penguin.
brown
violet
A dusty black with a purple shee. THey show their color best on a cloudy day or when the sun is at your back while looking at them. THey are a solid color.
Hello! My guineas are considerably older and larger. They do NOT make a lot of noise, although teaching them to roost in my newly built three story chicken coop has been a bit of a feat! I am raising them with my regular chickens, which are now laying. If you wish to contact me I'm still at bobcrowson@yahoo.com.
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You do. Good eye!
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of something I read in Volume 2 (I believe) of No Greater Joy's newsletter excerpt collections. They told about raising mail-order chicks. Since they have no mother with them, they have to learn how to use their laying nests and everything else. The chicks also "hang out" in groups based upon age and sex, like teenagers do today in the Egyptian and Babylonian systems. Sad and it says a lot.
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