Pencilled Palm Poult- Possible Albino?

[Pele]

Hi all, I have a very confusing chick that just hatched out from my recent batch of pencilled palm eggs. Everyone else in the hatch looks absolutely normal, but this one hatched out pure white. Is this a normal throwback for pencilled palms? He has what appears to be possible ivory colored pencilling coming in on his feathers, but it's hard to tell at this age.

Does anyone know about palm genetics? Is it possible that I have an albino?

 

[vandermoorhond]

Do you have pics -- I have a similar sounding poult what did the poult grow up to look like??

 

[wncpalm]

One possibility from your color description for this poult would be that it is the lighter of the Blue Palm colors. But both parents would have had to be Blue Palms for this to happen. A picture would make diagnosis a lot easier. But Kevin Porter has a picture of a light Blue Palm hen on his website porterturkeys.com. And he also has the color genetics for the different Palm and related colors presented there.

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

Out of curiosity I googled for images of Penciled Palm Turkeys. I think you'll be amused by several of the images that came up:




I guess this isn't what you were hoping for.