Cream legbar chick! Boy or girl???

[Mikus]

Can anyone help? Is this little dude a boy or a girl, it's definitely got the defined chipmunk stripe but worried about yellow spot on head, he/she is 12 days old??? I'm sure you all know what I 'want' the answer to be lol???

 

[EggMan1991]

Looks like a Cockerel to me. Big ole white spot on the top of it's head.

 

[swamperkk]

its a boy

 

[Mikus]

its a boy

Oh noooooo!!! Not what I wanted to hear!!! He was abandoned by my broody with shell still round his head, when I found him he was freezing cold and lifeless so I thought he was dead but he moved ever so slightly when I lifted him so I brought him into the house, warmed him up, massaged him and an hour later he was starting to cheep, 12 days in and he's doing amazing, obviously I now have a soft spot for him and he's my wee pet so I really hoped he was a girl as I've just rehomed my Rooster and don't want anymore! So disappointed:-(

 

[azygous]

Wait. Don't give up hope just yet. There are cases where the auto sexing characteristics are ambiguous. There are features that point to the chick being a pullet. The fact that the legs are not a vivid yellow. The wing development. A cockerel is only just getting the wing feathers by this point.

Watch the comb. If it starts tending toward an orange color rather than very pale yellow, and you see red wattles emerging, then you may start to push the panic button. By six weeks, the comb will be a definite red and growing larger than the pullets'. And if you part the back feathers in front of the tail, you will see orange pin feathers emerging. Then you will know it's cockerel.

 

[Mikus]

Wait. Don't give up hope just yet. There are cases where the auto sexing characteristics are ambiguous. There are features that point to the chick being a pullet. The fact that the legs are not a vivid yellow. The wing development. A cockerel is only just getting the wing feathers by this point.

Watch the comb. If it starts tending toward an orange color rather than very pale yellow, and you see red wattles emerging, then you may start to push the panic button. By six weeks, the comb will be a definite red and growing larger than the pullets'. And if you part the back feathers in front of the tail, you will see orange pin feathers emerging. Then you will know it's cockerel.

Yeeeaaayyy, thank you soooo much, a little hope is good!! I'm keeping everything crossed because as you can imagine she's more special to me than the others who are being reared by my broody!!!

 

[azygous]

Well, I'm in the same boat as you are. I have a four-week old Cream Legbar chick that had every classic characteristic of a pullet at hatch, solid dark head, solid chipmunk stripe, and early wing development. I know when to expect a Cream Legbar cockerel to get his wings, and it's much later than this chick.

Now, this chick still has all of the right coloring, feather patterns, bronze breast, no grey barring at all, but she has an orange comb and red wattles. It's totally contradictory. It makes me want to scream. But I will know for sure in just another two weeks if I see the typical orange pin feathers under the back feathers.

The suspense, and yes, the dread, can be overwhelming.

 

[Mikus]

Well, I'm in the same boat as you are. I have a four-week old Cream Legbar chick that had every classic characteristic of a pullet at hatch, solid dark head, solid chipmunk stripe, and early wing development. I know when to expect a Cream Legbar cockerel to get his wings, and it's much later than this chick.

Now, this chick still has all of the right coloring, feather patterns, bronze breast, no grey barring at all, but she has an orange comb and red wattles. It's totally contradictory. It makes me want to scream. But I will know for sure in just another two weeks if I see the typical orange pin feathers under the back feathers.

The suspense, and yes, the dread, can be overwhelming.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you, it's sooo frustrating lol!!! Let me know how you get on