Platinum Andalusian?

[Maureen O]

Is this considered “platinum” and if so, what are the genetics behind it? I got him from someone who got him from a breeder...wondering what he’ll make putting him on my blue and splash Andalusian hens.

 

[The Moonshiner]

this is the platinum Sumatra...same coloring as my Andy

I know platinum Sumatras.
I breed for colors/patterns and I'm just not seeing your bird being that. Granted im on a phone screen and you only posted one pic.
I also know the dun gene isn't in a ton of breeds and I know what it would take to introduce it into Andalusians and then breed them back towards their standard while maintaining it. Thats a project.
When your birds are grown test breed him to some blacks. If he is splash the offspring will all be blue.
If he is platinum then they would throw blue, black, dun and platinum.

 

[nicalandia]

I don't see platinum blue, to me it looks like Rusty Splash/Blue rooster

 

[Maureen O]

Thought I’d post another pic of my Andalusian next to the platinum Sumatra.

 

[Maureen O]

And these are the chicks he’s produced so far with blue hens only...2nd pic doesnt look blue, black, or splash

 

[Amer]

I don't see platinum blue, to me it looks like Rusty Splash/Blue rooster

X2 He shows gold leakage.
The gold gene is in Andalusians, but you don’t see it unless a bird is very diluted like splash. You can breed two leakage-free blue birds together and get splashes leaking a lot of rust. It also expresses in blue fowl right before they molt.
All of which nicalandia told me of course...
But I observed this in my blue d’Anvers and I can concur.
My blue cockerels are completely leakage free even though their splash father and brothers show a lot of leakage.
You have very beautiful young Andalusians, and your cockerel is very handsome.

 

[Maureen O]

So, I haven’t been really hatching eggs from him, been selling a couple here and there. But I have one blue sapphire olive egger in the pen with him, so I’ve been trying to hatch those eggs. So far I’ve gotten 1 blue and 2 BLACK chicks. SO....if he was splash being bred to a blue, chicks should only be blue and splash....so, maybe I’m right and he IS a platinum? My black Andalusian hens are almost old enough for him to do the test, btw.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Or maybe he's just blue instead of splash.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Platinum as I know it is one blue gene and one dun gene.
He looks splash to me, Idk? Not sure how dun or really anything else would have came from in an andalusian line.

 

[Maureen O]

Platinum as I know it is one blue gene and one dun gene.
He looks splash to me, Idk? Not sure how dun or really anything else would have came from in an andalusian line.

this is the platinum Sumatra...same coloring as my Andy