This season I bred 2 odd looking chicks. From hatching and up until 3 and a half weeks of age they appeared in every way as being normal lutinos, red eyes, pink feet, everything you'd expect.
It wasn't until some colour showed up that I noticed the difference. The colour of the growing feathers was a very pale, subdued yellow. Not the rich vibrant yellow of a lutino.
At about 5 weeks, it became very obvious that they were not lutinos, but didn't fit the description of a pallid either. The head is yellow, the body is a soft yellow-green slightly more green in the rump, and some yellow in the flights. There is no melanin in the flights or feather shafts. No brown undertone that you'd expect from pallid or cinnamon.
The best description would be the phenotype of a pallidino, but as they are hens this is not possible.
They are bred out of a green/ino, or so I thought, cock and a green/blue hen. The one possibility that seems to make sense is that they may be Platinum. From the description in Deon Smiths' book, these chicks developed the same as he describes, and the "Inbetween" ino and pallid phenotype also seems to fit.





Any thoughts are welcome.
Cheers.