Cream leg bar chicks help!

[Cymro05]

Last year I purchased some ccl eggs and when they hatched there was one of each sex. Fast forward to a few weeks ago I collected eggs to incubate I hatched 2 o ur and they didn’t look like there parents at all. I’m wondering if the parents could have been hybrids
Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Images below are
-both parents on the left as chicks last year
-Then both parents as adults
-Then they’re chicks today

 

[hennyp]

i'm no expert, but with a breed like the clb which has mottled colouring & a mix of barred & partridge type patterns i think you should expect their appearance to be extremely variable even if they are purebred.

if all the other chicks in your 1st pic are also cream legbars, then you'll see they're all very different in colour & pattern too. your 2nd gen chicks aren't even as different to their parents as the parents are to the other chicks they were raised with.

 

[Cymro05]

i'm no expert, but with a breed like the clb which has mottled colouring & a mix of barred & partridge type patterns i think you should expect their appearance to be extremely variable even if they are purebred.

if all the other chicks in your 1st pic are also cream legbars, then you'll see they're all very different in colour & pattern too. your 2nd gen chicks aren't even as different to their parents as the parents are to the other chicks they were raised with.

The other chicks in the first brood are light Sussex and buff Orpington’s but my plan now is to hatch more out to be able to see if it was just a coincidence or if all the 2 gen are slightly too gold

 

[Aneury Sanchez]

the hen looks like she might be a gold split cream legbar meaning she carries only 1 cream gene while the rooster carries both cream genes which would explain the difference between the parents and their chicks. Both of the chicks appear to be males.

 

[Cymro05]

the hen looks like she might be a gold split cream legbar meaning she carries only 1 cream gene while the rooster carries both cream genes which would explain the difference between the parents and their chicks. Both of the chicks appear to be males

That would make sense. So if I’m not mistaken the pullet chicks would still be heavily chipmunked from the two parents it’s just I’ve ended up with two males and wrongly assumed the right chick was a pullet but less striped