55 Flowery, Crested Cream Legbar day olds. Too early to tell gender?

[coffeeaddict]

I know these are supposed to be auto sexing breeds. Is it too early to tell? I wanna say female for 55 Flowery and male for the Legbar. Thoughts?

55 Flowery:


Legbar:

 

[JedJackson]

I think you are correct. The Legbar is a male, the 55 is a female.

 

[Purelychicks]

The legbar is an auto breed and it has no white spot on its head, so it’s a male. The 55 is a pullet.

 

[coffeeaddict]

The legbar is an auto breed and it has no white spot on its head, so it’s a male. The 55 is a pullet.

I’m so confused with these auto sexing breeds. I thought a white spot on the head meant it was definitely a male and this one doesn’t have a white spot but is lighter in color with blurred striping.

 

[coffeeaddict]

I will say that Washington (legbar) does act like a rooster. It’s only 4 days old, but does a lot of the upright posturing. Not sure what to call that. Seems like a rooster trait.

 

[coffeeaddict]

They ended up being female. I was so sure this legbar was a roo. Almost gave her away. It didn’t seem to have distinct male markings, but it was much lighter in color as a small chick than typical females.

 

[Northstardreams]

Lucky! She's such a pretty thing too!
I learned when we hatched opal and cream legbars that the back striping is considered the most important factor in sexing them. Super defined is female, blurred out should be male. Eyes stripes and heads spots are secondary. A breeder who was breeding for all those autosexing traits probably wouldn't use a bird who had ambiguous markings as a chick in their breeding lines, but they probably just crop up randomly sometimes.