One of my Legbar Pullets got in with the Bielefelders. The roosters immediately had their way with her. If I hatched some of her eggs, would they be auto-sexing olive eggers, or just mutts?
The while head splotch is pretty clear in person. I don't see chipmunk stripes, which is why I think it is a he. Either way, just askin' if anyone else has seen these?
I'm in the middle of a CLB hatch and one of the chicks appears to be a male and is totally yellow. He has a lighter splotch on his head which I assume is a male. I'll post pictures later. Anyone ever see this before?
I have a similar question on sexing the Legbars. In my hatch, some chicks are lighter color, others dark, some have a well defined white spot or splash, others just a tiny dot. I'll post some pictures and describe my questions.
The one at the right is silve-gold and has a splash. I think this...
I was talking about the Welsummer cross that has no barring. As the brown eggs get bigger they are getting a pinkish hue to them. I will separate the brown layers and the mutt roo and have a separate colony. They would be auto-sexing at any rate, so that counts for something.
Now that I believe we have established that some of my birds have Welsummer in them, and the male has no barring, is there a way to tell the females other than caging them and seeing what eggs they lay?
I just found a post by Pixel
http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7967614&start=15
Looks like my bird and the breeder keeps welsummers. I got a mutt Ameraucana from her last year, so if you think that is what I have, the mystery is solved.
You guys are way too technical for me to follow at this point in my education on chickens. Had some college biology, but genetics was a very new science back in the 70's. Is there something I can read to get me up to speed quickly if I work at it?
I don't know if this helps any, but the brown...