Elefreda
In the Brooder
- May 10, 2023
- 8
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Hi there,
We have just hatched 5 legbar chicks, went for these as we wanted to be able to sex them early as some are for us and some for a friend - we want girls, they are happy with either.
I've been looking at how to sex the legbars over the last few weeks so that I knew what to look for but now they are here they aren't matching what I've seen online (I was expecting to see darker, chipmunk markings for the females - paler with spot on head for males). I know there's always some variation but none of these are as obvious as I hoped.
I've queried it with the person who gave me the eggs and they are saying that dark is female, pale is male, stripes and spots are nothing to do with it. I've asked them to confirm that they're legbars and they say they are. So I'm confused.
Can anyone help by looking at the photos and saying which sex you think they are? For what it's worth my guesses based on what I'd seen about stripe and spot markings are (from left to right) girl, boy, girl, boy, girl (the one of the far right has more stripes but the photo hasn't picked them up well) but none of them are really clear to me.You can't see it in the photos but the ones that I think are female also have quite clear eye stripes. #2 has pale stripe but #4 has no eye stripe at all.
The person who gave me the eggs says it's purely by colour and says we have 3 boys, 2 girls (#4 and #5).
HELP!
We have just hatched 5 legbar chicks, went for these as we wanted to be able to sex them early as some are for us and some for a friend - we want girls, they are happy with either.
I've been looking at how to sex the legbars over the last few weeks so that I knew what to look for but now they are here they aren't matching what I've seen online (I was expecting to see darker, chipmunk markings for the females - paler with spot on head for males). I know there's always some variation but none of these are as obvious as I hoped.
I've queried it with the person who gave me the eggs and they are saying that dark is female, pale is male, stripes and spots are nothing to do with it. I've asked them to confirm that they're legbars and they say they are. So I'm confused.
Can anyone help by looking at the photos and saying which sex you think they are? For what it's worth my guesses based on what I'd seen about stripe and spot markings are (from left to right) girl, boy, girl, boy, girl (the one of the far right has more stripes but the photo hasn't picked them up well) but none of them are really clear to me.You can't see it in the photos but the ones that I think are female also have quite clear eye stripes. #2 has pale stripe but #4 has no eye stripe at all.
The person who gave me the eggs says it's purely by colour and says we have 3 boys, 2 girls (#4 and #5).
HELP!