They are sexlinked chicks. The trouble I have with blue in sexlinked hybrids is that the blue fades the black enough to make the head spot indistinct. I would wait a week and look for barring on the feathers. Any chicks with barring are males for sure, and those that are free of barring are females. However, even the barring is less distinct with blues, so be sure you are not just missing the barring because you want to think it is a female.
Thanks for the info. I was hoping to offer them sexed as day old chicks. Sounds like I may have to scrap that idea. Interesting that the blue disguised the head spot.
Would the head spot be the only distinguishing factor? I noticed some have more yellow on their necks. Some also have white on their chest, while others have darker yellow chests.
The Cream Legbar hen is based on gold. The Marans rooster could be silver, gold, or split. That part doesn't matter. Silver is dominant over gold and those are sex linked genes. The hen has the recessive gene, she cannot override what the male has, whatever that is. Any differences in the white-yellow you are seeing is not something that can be used to sex the chicks based on the silver-gold genes.
