Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington hen crossed with Crested Cream Legbar Roo

[blessedholler]

Hello,
We are hatching some eggs from our flock and I have a couple of questions. I hatched an egg from my Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington hen and our Crested Cream Legbar roo. What are the chances that this chick will be big and fluffy like the hen (super fluffy, long feathers) and is it possible to tell the sex of the chick by a light spot on the head because of the Roo?

I will attach a picture later when the chick had dried and fluffed more.

We also hatched a few CCL eggs. Both hen and roo are CCL. We have a few pullets and I think a few cockerels but their head bump/crest isn't nearly as dominant just have the very light spot on the head.

Another egg I hatched was a silver penciled Plymouth Rock hen crossed with the CCL roo. Will a pullet from this be an olive egger of some sort?

 

[Gray Farms]

Your Orp/Legbar cross chick will likely develop feather type and size somewhere in the middle of its parents.

Rock/Legbar chick "if its a female" should produce light green eggs, but not Olive. Has to be a dark brown egg breed like Welsummer or Marans to produce Olive Eggers.

 

[blessedholler]

Your Orp/Legbar cross chick will likely develop feather type and size somewhere in the middle of its parents.

Rock/Legbar chick "if its a female" should produce light green eggs, but not Olive. Has to be a dark brown egg breed like Welsummer or Marans to produce Olive Eggers.

Thank you! Do you think we will be able to tell if it's a cockerel from it's colorings and the light head marking from the CCL? is that a dominant thing that any chick crossed with a CCL would have?

 

[Gray Farms]

Not with a CC Legbar rooster. If you had used a CC Legbar hen then the chicks would have been sexlinked. Barred roosters pass on barring to all their offspring. Barred hens only pass it on to their sons.

 

[blessedholler]

Great! Thanks so much for your help!

 

[Gray Farms]

Glad to help

 

[drumstick diva]

Gray Farms really knows birds