legbars: what is their sex?

[greengravy]

Day old legbar chicks, not sure what they are. I thought it was supposed to be easy to tell them apart.

One is dark colored with a head spot & the other has a very small head spot but a little bit of markings on the eyes, but no stripe along the body. Neither is as light as I thought the males should be, so I was hoping they aren't both males.

 

[Pele]

These are interesting babies. Whoever is breeding them is not tightly controlling their breeding program, and is losing the autosexing feature of the breed.

The lefthand one is absolutely a male. The righthand one has coloration features of both male and female. However, she's dark enough that I'd hazard a bet that it's a girl.

 

[hdowden]

i would say it's a pair

pullet

cockerel

 

[willowbranchfarm]

I agree, one of each.

 

[blackbirds13]

I'm gonna say both male

 

[greengravy]

wow, I wasn't the only one that thought their coloring was not typical of what I would expect for legbar chicks. Thank you guys for your responses.

Here is a photo of the 7 eggs they came from. They are a beautiful blue/aqua. The other eggs are easter egger eggs that I put there for color comparison. In total, 3 chicks hatched out of the 7 eggs. 2 of the eggs had loose air sacks so I had to throw those away even after trying them for a week. The 3rd chick that was not pictured came out of it's egg after I posted the thread. It looks just like the other darker chick that some of you guys think could be a female.

Thank you for your help!

 

[hdowden]

the eggs are a nice color