Muddy genetics in cream legbars

JChipowsky

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Jul 31, 2023
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I have been researching and wanting cream legbars for a few years. I've been trying to save up to get them set up right, but as often happens in life plans went askew. While making our weekly stop at our local Tractor Supply we saw cream legbars in one of the tubs. We've gotten chicks here before, but they were for my boyfriend's parents. We never really cared if they fit certain standards, his parents just wanted egg layers.
We picked out 5, one definitely male (rusty reddish fading to yellow on his bottom, clear white head spot) and 4 that looked like females (dark clear chipmunk stripes) on 7/13. I was a little iffy about them, because they all had some white on their heads. I'm almost sure that a couple are prairie bluebells, they have no crests coming in. The second set didn't have white spots on their heads, but I question the correctness of their gender.
I tried to get the best pictures I could, there's two pictures of each chick, older ones first (guessing about 4 weeks old) then the younger ones (guessing about 3 weeks old)...not the greatest pictures, but the best I could do for now
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Cute chicks! I won’t make gender guesses since I really don’t know much about CCLs, but I found this article which has some pictures of CCLs at different stages of growth for both genders, and I thought it might be helpful as a comparison :)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/cream-legbars-from-chick-to-adult.65514/

Edit: You can see that the author had one sneaky male who was darker as a chick, so it does happen.
 
Pretty sure with my first 5 I have 2 cockerels, 1 cream legbar pullet and 2 easter eggers/prairie bluebells. The 4 smaller ones I'm not sure of yet.
 
Looks like you have 2 cockerals. Maybe only one if its the samd picture. But they are all Cream Legbars. Some can be crested and some are uncrested
 

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