Can you help me sex this Cream Legbar (potential cross) chick?

[OrangeYouGlad]

This chick came from a cream legbar egg, and the rooster could have been either another cream legbar or a blue copper Maran. This chick is almost all yellow. There is a slightly more warm patch on head, and also a small black dot off centered on the top of its head. It has faint "eyeliner." This chick certainly does not look like any male (or female...) legbar chicks I have seen.

 

[sourland]

50% chance it's a pullet.

 

[HappyClucker7]

Way, way too young. You'll have to wait until the chick is at least 6-8 weeks old.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

Way, way too young. You'll have to wait until the chick is at least 6-8 weeks old.

Cream legbar should be auto-sexing. I am wondering if this could be a poorly marked (bad genetics?) male, or if it seems more likely to be a cross.

 

[HappyClucker7]

Cream legbar should be auto-sexing. I am wondering if this could be a poorly marked (bad genetics?) male, or if it seems more likely to be a cross.

I know, but this chick doesn't look like a Legbar at all, so there's no way to sex it at this age.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

I know, but this chick doesn't look like a Legbar at all, so there's no way to sex it at this age.

That's reasonable. And you're sure right... it doesn't. I was quite shocked when I came in to the incubator room and found this yellow creature. Cute, though.

 

[HappyClucker7]

That's reasonable. And you're sure right... it doesn't. I was quite shocked when I came in to the incubator room and found this yellow creature. Cute, though.

Definitely cute! It will be interesting to see how it looks like when it's older. Be sure to update!

 

[DavidReaves]

I have some chicks that look similar to that, but a cross from the other direction. They are eggs hatched from Rhode Island Red hens exposed to a Cream Legbar rooster. I had a mixed hatch this weekend from mostly Rhode Island Red hens but also six Cream Legbar hens. From those, I hatched apparent full RIRs chicks, RIR x Cream Legbar, and two that may be full Cream Legbars. There were two chicks from the CL hens (blue eggs) that appear to be crosses, but also a good number of RIR crosses too. I would guess that the CL Rooster is a bit more active than the RIR. From an incubation of 22 I had two not fertile, one early quitter (small blood ring) and three late stage dead in shell. I had one defective chick that had to be culled. I'll get some photos later. One is really interesting in that it has most of the CL pattern, but the stripe is light rather than dark!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Since this chick doesn't look to be pure Cream Legbar, that means the Marans is the father. In this cross cockerels would be barred and have headspots and pullets would not. Since this chick doesn't look to have a headspot (although it is light and difficult to tell) I have to go with pullet!

 

[Lemon-Drop]

My guess is pullet.

But it's purely a guess.