cream legbar

[elliechooks]

This is 8 week old cream legbar. I had always thought it was a boy however someone on the legbar thread said its a girl. Can I ask for opinions, and please can you give reasons. I'm not doubting anyone (you probably all have way more experience than me) but I would like pointers for what to look for myself next time.
Thanks

 

[Habibs Hens]

that's a pullet

Cream Legbars are Autosexing

cockerels and pullets look different

although yours is a non standard Cream Legbar

but still very distinguishable as a cream Legbar pullet

 

[elliechooks]

If mines not a very good example that would explain why I couldn't tell gender at fluffy chick stage. There are plenty of web sites explaining the differences at 1 - 3 days old but what differences do you look for now? You say its easily distinguishable but how? Only having the one I have nothing to compare it to. At this age would you expect the cockerel colouring to be much different?

 

[Happy Chooks]

that's a pullet

Cream Legbars are Autosexing

cockerels and pullets look different

x2

 

[Habibs Hens]

the pullets have a dark chipmunk stripe in the down that is very well defined

the cockerels have a washed out yellow down where the stripe is very light and not very defined and also a white head spot



as they grow they look different


the pullets get the salmon breast, grey barred hackles and brown base colour


the cockerels are barred all over with a darker bared tail sickles with a few white feathers in sickles acceptable


chestnut is not accepted in the birds and your pullet is showing chestnut in the hackles

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

pullet, but i don't think it's a cream legbar.

 

[elliechooks]

Thank you habibs hens. To be honest I'm not worried that its not a good example, as long as it lays coloured eggs. I am so bored of boring light brown eggs - that's why I hatched this one, the welsummers and some marans. Looking for leghorns next!

 

[elliechooks]

Just thought I would add an update. My mystery chicken is now 16 weeks. Still no sign of crowing or eggs!!! It is a bit wimpy though, always last out of the coop I the morning, has curly toes, waddles like a duck and flies really badly!! But we still love it

 

[srslychickning]

that sure doesn't look like a pullet to me - that looks like a roo. I'm not an expert, but those orange wing feathers and hackles look very boy-like to me.

 

[Pele]

Haha, yeah that's a roo. He was very stealthy about it too. I would NOT recommend breeding him since he's so confusing, and the whole point of Legbars is that they are easy to gender ID.