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What is he?

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Just curious if someone could explain something to me? So Echo is the palest grey like white with just a touch of grey mixed in. He has no facial markings whatsoever, his head is grey, theres no white nor yellow, and no cheek markings. The only markings he has anywhere are the two white stripes on his wings. The closest I can get to his type is a double factor dominant pastel silver whiteface, but he doesn't have a whiteface, is this because he's young? (13 weeks old) will his markings change? or is he just some really strange mutation? I was under the impression white faces had a white face even as babies...

Theres pics of Echo in my sig, he's actually lighter in colour in real life but otherwise their pretty accurate. Oh and I'm pretty sure he's a boy he chatters away continually and can already speak.
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i am sure Echo is a platinum... the grey is a slightly smokey grey right?...
where abouts in nsw are you Avalon?
one of my 'cinnamons' is actually a platinum... i found the breeder and spoke to him!
its Fenkussu, the platinum pearl pied...

the colour almost looks cinnamon on Fang, as he is a dark platinum, but next to the cinnamons, it is clearly a smokey cinnamon grey colour...
there are a few breeders now breeding platinums, so they are likely to pop up a lot more in our NSW/QLD members...lol

Echo will get a white face...(he was dna'd male wasnt he?) in his 6-8 month moult... the patches on his wings are a 'regular' white wing patch right?, cos if they are bigger, and if there are more white irregular spots on him somewhere (even a discoloured toenail) he may actually be a extreemly light pied, and will therefore keep his coloured face, this could also explain the colour of his beak...
but more likely he is just yet to go through his moult ;)
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Actually though just looking at him, he has two teeny white feathers on the back of his neck....
well i would say he is split to pied, and therefore if he is a boy, he will get a white face as he matures, some boys get their white face quickly, and some are over a year old when the finally moult out all the cover colour to leave the base of yellow or white...
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