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

[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!

Here are the chicks. You can see the various colors of the crosses, as well as a couple that may be pure Cream Legbar (they came from blue eggs). There are some pure RIR as well I'd say.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

This is barring, right? 3 weeks old today.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Cockerel.

 

[HappyClucker7]

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This is barring, right? 3 weeks old today.

That's a cockerel for sure.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

Still say cockerel, right? Want to make EXTRA SURE before I rehome him. He's 9 weeks.

 

[DavidReaves]

I'm not that experienced, but my hatch from May was WAY more obvious than that. One of the Cream Legbar/Rhode Island crosses was obviously a cockerel at 4 weeks. This is him at just under 7 weeks. Your photo at 9 weeks still shows a small, yellow, comb. This one is most developed but all of the 6 cockerels I had were very obviously different that the pullets at 6 weeks, even.

I would keep that one until it crows or lays an egg!

 

[HappyClucker7]

Still say cockerel, right? Want to make EXTRA SURE before I rehome him. He's 9 weeks.

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That's a pullet. Are you sure this is the same chicken? The comb and wattles look much less red now than at 3 weeks.

 

[OrangeYouGlad]

I'm not that experienced, but my hatch from May was WAY more obvious than that. One of the Cream Legbar/Rhode Island crosses was obviously a cockerel at 4 weeks. This is him at just under 7 weeks. Your photo at 9 weeks still shows a small, yellow, comb. This one is most developed but all of the 6 cockerels I had were very obviously different that the pullets at 6 weeks, even.

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Yes, I sure wish the comb were more defined. I think it's because barring = male in this cross, but I want to be sure this is really barring and not because of his/her blue father.

That's a pullet. Are you sure this is the same chicken? The comb and wattles look much less red now than at 3 weeks.

Yes, I am sure it's the same one. All the rest are black copper marans. I think they appear more yellow in this photo than maybe they are IRL, but I agree that they certainly haven't gotten more red. They are about the same size and color as the BCM pullets I hatched at the same time. My concern is that barring = male in this cross, I believe, and it appears this chicken has barring? Or maybe this is because of her blue father? I haven't re-homed him/her because I agree she/he doesn't really look like a cockerel, beyond the feathers.

 

[NanaK]

Still say cockerel, right? Want to make EXTRA SURE before I rehome him. He's 9 weeks.

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If this bird is 9 wks, with such a small comb and basically no wattles, I'd have to say female. And a beauty, too! I'd have to keep this one a while longer.

 

[Painted Calls]

Still say cockerel, right? Want to make EXTRA SURE before I rehome him. He's 9 weeks.

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That's a pullet.