Some of my most memorable early academic meltdowns included memorizing multiplication tables and deciphering Punnett squares, so I get a little nervous when genetics comes up.
Luckily the Guinea Fowl Calculator exists.
Given the known stable relationships among my birds, it looks like I have a good chance of having all pearl gray keets. I think my pearl grays are very pretty, but this is also kind of disappointing, because the range of colors out there is so interesting. I better invest in some more colored leg bands!
I also find it neat how guineas seem to like difference. None of the four coral blues wants to get with other coral blues. The two pied royal purples don’t hang out together. The pearl grays and pied pearl grays are not with other pearl grays.
Lazarus (male, coral blue) + Bucket (female, pearl gray)
Chickweed (male, coral blue) + Iris (female, pearl gray)
- 100% chance Pearl Gray
Weddy (male, pied pearl gray) + Zipper (female, pied royal purple)
- 50% chance Pied Pearl Gray
- 25% chance Pearl Gray
- 25% chance White
Boris (male, pied royal purple) + Chestnut (female, pearl gray)
Grimace (male, pied Pearl Gray) + Piper (female, coral blue)
Grimace (male, pied Pearl Gray) + Clementine (female, coral blue)
Weddy (male, pied pearl gray) + Kernel (female, buff dundotte)
Weddy or Grimace (both male, pied pearl gray) + Inkpot (female, royal purple)
- 50% chance Pearl Gray
- 50% chance Pied Pearl Gray