Is my chick ugly? Cream Legbar x Silver Spangled Hamburg

[BigBlueHen53]

front 1st from the left in first pic.
front 2nd from the right and he is looking at cam in 2nd pic.

Maybe

That was also my pick. If so, he's fairly distinctive looking with that big white patch on top of his head! I think he's a cutie! Are we right? Hope you'll keep posting pics to this thread as he feathers out.

 

[Mellowmalt]

Are we right?

I don't think so and the reason I changed my mind is because the one bottom left is no longer visible on the second picture (I am suspecting it is the chick just out of view)

and the one looking directly at the camera in the second picture is not clearly visible in the first picture lol

 

[Chickenwingwing]

this one lol

 

[Sambowling]

Beautiful chicks

 

[CreveChris]

For the past year, I've been experimenting with sex-linked and auto-sexing hybrids that lay colorful, predictable eggshell colors. Most have turned out really cool. This particular blue-egger hybrid wasn't on my list initially, but I had a lot of demand for blue eggs from people who wanted to buy my chicks. I currently only have 2 Cream Legbar laying hens. Breeding my Hamburg hens with Cream Legbar rooster doubled my capacity to produce blue-egger chicks. Here's what they look like...
(I'm presuming female on the left, male on the right but please let me know if you think I got the sex wrong)
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The females aren't bad looking, although not the prettiest in the flock. I hatched 5 of them, with just this one male.

But I'm afraid the male chick is ...ugly. Maybe he will get prettier as he gets his feathers? What do you think? Am I being too critical of this sweet little one-day-old chick?
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For comparison, here's what I get when I cross the same hen with my Golden Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben...
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What do you think?

They're cute and you get blue eggs!

 

[sweaterthebroodyrooster]

Here is a photo of the little boy I kept (along with one of my Gold Spitz girls). He turned out gorgeous! This was about a month ago. I swear he's getting prettier by the day. Really smart too
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Here's one of my blue egger girls, of the same cross. I've gotten a few new blue eggs recently, but haven't been able to catch them in action to find out who it is. This was about a month ago as well. She currently has very red face & comb. She's really sweet and curious--more of a Legbar personality vs. a Hamburg (thank goodness!)
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They are gorgeous!!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here is the formerly ugly, now quite pretty boy this morning..one of the most handsome in the flock. He's about 4.5 months old and is already too savvy for his own good (can't keep him contained anywhere he doesn't want to be) and treats the ladies like royalty...
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He’s beautiful!

 

[halefamily_flock]

At about 10 days old, can you pick our sweet little funny-looking boy out of a crowd? He's in both photos...

 

[Brooks_]

But wait, they're mine right?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

But wait, they're mine right?

Don't mind me, I talk to everybody at random. I'm old, that's my excuse. And getting older, I have a b'day coming up!