Is my chick ugly? Cream Legbar x Silver Spangled Hamburg

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this one lol
 
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?
YES, hideous. I feel it is my duty to take the two in the last pic...to spare the world of such creatures. If needed, I'll take them all. :lol:
 
@Mellowmalt @bill3607 @RoostersAreAwesome @Weeg @BigBlueHen53 @S_Drummond @Chickenwingwing @BrooksHatlen Thanks for playing! Sorry it took so long to get back. It's snowing in Southeast Missouri tonight!! (it took a minute to get things hunkered down at the farm) Here's the answer...

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The first photo more accurately captures what he looks like in real life. The 2nd one is a little washed out. He reminds me of the Crows, guarding the wall, from Game of Thrones, with the pitch black feather coats lol. He's a sweetie though. I'll post pictures as he grows out.
 
He is unique. And if you have created a new breed that breeds true, I'm going to suggest a breed name. Uniqua. You-NEEK-wah. You're welcome. 😆
He's a sex link. I was expecting more yellow (from the Silver gene passed down from his Hamburg mama), but only got a partially yellow face. I think that means he'll have a silver head and black barred body. He would likely pass down barring and yellow faces to half of his offspring, but they wouldn't be sexable as chicks.
 
Aw, I missed him in Photo #1! Hey, I'm in SE MO, too, we're neighbors! Wasn't that snow something? We were in Cape early today at 55°F at 3 pm, when we got home at 5 it was 32! Brr! The dogs came in all wet like they'd been making snow angels! But.. I digress, sorry.
 

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