On which molt do barnevelders get their sex related breast feathers?

MarGray

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I know future roos will have blue/black breast feathers but unsure of when it shows?
I hatched 4 blue laced barnevelder eggs about 5 weeks ago and I'm incredibly impatient.
 
I don't have experience with Barnevelders specifically, but with some other similarly-colored breeds I have sometimes been able to sex chicks by the color of the first breast feathers they grow. At other times, the first breast feathers were confusing (not obviously male-colored or female-colored, but sort of a mix), but the next molt was clear (although I usually knew the sex by comb size & color before that next molt happened.)
 

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