I have been breeding cockatiels for more than 10 years. Most of my birds are pied, or cinnamon. I have had more than 100 babies born in the last 10 years, and I have only had pied, cinnamon, cinnamon-pied, or normal grey babies born. This morning I checked on my newest clutch, and I was very surprised to find a little all white red eyed chick in the nest box. I have been searching everywhere about cockatiel genetics, and I can’t really find anything about why this little baby was born. Could this be a true albino, or have my birds been hiding some lutino genes? This is the fist clutch from this particular pair; the mom is cinnamon pied and the dad is pearl. This is the first pearl I have ever owned, so I don’t know if they normally produce lutino chicks. What do you think?