Cream legbars

[Matthew__]

This is a 7-8week old cream legbar, is it possible to tell the sex of this bird?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I'm not familiar with the breed, but that comb is awfully big for its age. My guess would be rooster.

 

[kumquat]

Do you know what it looked like/have pictures of it as a young chick? As cream legbars are typically autosexing this could provide answers.

Based on this description by a Cream Legbar owner in a past thread, I am leaning towards pullet.

The males feather in pretty plain black and white (light grey) while the females have much more brown and chestnut/red in their initial true feathers.

Here is a visual for comparison from the same discussion thread.

Here are a male and female at 6weeks old. This specific female is incorrectly colored(gold)

 

[JedJackson]

This is a 7-8week old cream legbar, is it possible to tell the sex of this bird?

There's very little barring in that bird so I'd say it has to be a pullet if it's a cream legbar.

 

[Gray Farms]

Pure Cream Legbars can be sexed at hatch. Yours is a pullet. But the quality isn't very good, the color is off and the crest is a little to large. Either its parentage isn't pure or the breeder isn't culling for defects in their birds.

 

[Alexandra33]

X2, pullet.

~Alex

 

[Matthew__]

Yes, I did buy this from a breeder at 2 weeks of age and was told it was a pullet, however the comb threw me a bit, no Wattle growth though.

 

[Matthew__]

The quality I’m not too fussed about as I bought them for the egg they lay and not allowed a rooster so there will be no breeding.

 

[redranger209]

Leg barrs are auto sexing, definite pullet.

 

[Matthew__]

Well that’s good news to hear, I’ll pop up a few photos of my 6 week old chicks soon to get a few opinions about them.

Great forum! Thanks