Cream Legbars

[ChicKat]

I'd say baby boy.

 

[Sunshine0235]

Alright, thanks for the help, I honestly couldn't decide, but im holding onto all of them until at least they are fully feathers, I love CL they are beautiful.

 

[DCchicken]

Looks male due to the very large head splotch.

Both male and female can have chipmunk stripes. This is clearly a boy as is indicated by the disruption of color from barring. I look at the eyeliner. If it is fuzzy, it's a boy. Clear, it's a girl.

But if can't tell right away the sex, tag that chick and do not use for breeding. Autosexing is one of the defining characteristics of the breed.

 

[caychris]

Ive go with the assumption that its male if its not clearly female. that way you can be pleasantly surprised when it feathers out female.

 

[DCchicken]

Ive go with the assumption that its male if its not clearly female. that way you can be pleasantly surprised when it feathers out female.

If it does feather out female, I would advise not breeding it as the autosexing is supposed to be simple and clear.

 

[chrissyr]

Pics are great, we LOVE to see pics of CL. So Post away.

First how old are your boys? It's true you don't want salmon on your boys. I have seen some pics of very young males maybe 4-8weeks-ish with slight salmon but it's just baby feathers and they will grow out of it. If you mean chestnut in males a little older then some chestnut is permissible though you don't want too much.

If you have crested birds to work with choose a crested male and cull the uncrested(same goes for the pullets). If you use an uncreated male(or female) he will not pass the crest gene to his offspring and then you will end up with some crested and some non crested chicks. And even then the crested offspring will only have one copy of the crest gene meaning it won't always pass it to the next generations. This will end up being frustrating for you in your breeding program as well as for potential customers. I hope I'm making sense I'm typing on an iPhone lol. Im sure someone else will elaborate.

As for the dark and light barring. I believe the darker barring is more towards the proposed standard. That is what I am aiming toward. My main boy has dark barring. But if I have a light male with other great qualities I would use him and I have.

I hope you post pics. It will really help us to help you

I agree with chicken pickin that you would probably choose one of your cockerels with a crest to breed your flock. Then of those - select the one with the straightest, nicest comb - and keep working the crest/comb thing as you go forward. Sounds like what you wrote that the crest is the cause of wrinkled combs- confirms the theory we have been following.

If what you are referring to about salmon on breast of male is what I am thinking - it is a baby-feather thing that will go away. The male goes through a lot of subtle color changes IMO - you may see the salmon (which is really kind of a smokey-pink) then subsequently turn white-looking before the adult dark barring comes into the breast of the cockerel. for females you will want to choose a clear salmon breast.




Does the salmon you are speaking of resemble this little guy? I was really surprised when I first saw it--- He grew up to have very light coloration - he's around 2-years old now.

Ok, maybe it's not salmon. Maybe it is the chestnut coloring. They all have some sort of orangey coloring.More on the back not the chest. Ok, I'll try to get pics next week.
They are only 2 - 2 1/2 months so still small. But with 13 running around, I'd like to narrow it down a bit.
Thank you all for the input. That does give me insight. I'll look for the crested ones and post all of them.

 

[DoubleMM]

 

[Brada Puhi]

Marbar?

 

[dee06]

Hi everyone, this is my first CL, was told she was about 8 wks but she is a tiny bit smaller than my 8 wk old bantam chicks and tiny compared to my 8 wk old Cochin x orp chicks, so I am thinking she is more 6 wks, anyway here is Mildred

 

[ChicKat]

Hi everyone, this is my first CL, was told she was about 8 wks but she is a tiny bit smaller than my 8 wk old bantam chicks and tiny compared to my 8 wk old Cochin x orp chicks, so I am thinking she is more 6 wks, anyway here is Mildred

Cute chick! Yes you may be right about her age. The Cream Legbar Club has some photo-essays of chicks as they grow. I'm sure not every CL chick will gtow at an ientical rate...but it was sure a help to me with my first ones to see if everything was 'normal'.

here's a link:
http://www.creamlegbarclub.com/12-how-cream-legbars-grow---photo-essay
two different Club members posted growth-progressions there...just click on those links. HTH