Cream Legbar Sexing

[lomine]

I received my order of straight run Cream Legbars from Murry this morning. They even added an extra one. I know they are supposed to be auto sexing but I'm having trouble telling what's what. It's probably because they are hatchery. I'm hoping for at least a couple of cockerels so I have more choices on which to keep.
Here is a group picture.

Chick 1

Chick 2 - pretty sure it's a cockerel

Chick 3

Chick 4

Chick 5

 

[redranger209]

I received my order of straight run Cream Legbars from Murry this morning. They even added an extra one. I know they are supposed to be auto sexing but I'm having trouble telling what's what. It's probably because they are hatchery. I'm hoping for at least a couple of cockerels so I have more choices on which to keep.
Here is a group picture.
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Chick 1
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Chick 2 - pretty sure it's a cockerel
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Chick 3
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Chick 4
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Chick 5
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Huh. I’ve only ever had show quality, and they all look like pullets to me.

 

[PotatoHead]

Only the one with the yellow spot on its head (chick 2) is a cockrel. The rest are all pullets. Cute little buggers too!

 

[lomine]

That explains why the other four looked the same to me. Wouldn't that just be a kick in the pants. I actually want males and end up with mostly females from a straight run.

 

[PotatoHead]

Cream Legbars breed a visually sexable chick according to their feather pattern. The males have a yellow dot on their head and the females have chipmunk stripes down their back.

 

[PotatoHead]

Get ready for some beautiful sky blue eggs!

 

[mcclucker]

Hmm, I also think your white spot is a boy. The others are probably girls. I came here to ask about my CCLs too. I hatched them myself. One is a definite girl but the other one is confusing me. It’s very dark all over, dark stripe on back and kind of a diffuse white stripe on the head. Looks nothing like yours though!

This is the one I think is a boy

And this one I’m sure is a girl- looks exactly like a
CCL pullet I hatched last spring. (Left- girl, right- boy- in this pic below)

 

[lomine]

The chicks are now 3.5 weeks old. I unfortunately lost two of them. One was dead the next morning and one drowned in a bucket (I suspect a duck, all buckets were moved outside). There seems to be two different feather patterns coming in and I wondered if that confirms the one is indeed a male.
Two of them look like this.

The other looks like this. It still has the white spot visible on its head too.

 

[redranger209]

Yeah, the white dot one is a cockerel.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Sounds like 2 pullets & 1 cockerel. The first pictured is a pullet, the second with barring on it's wings is a cockerel.