Sexing cream legbar X Swedish flower hen chicks at hatch

Baahaus

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Jul 8, 2025
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I have a mixed flock with one Swedish flower hen rooster. I have hatched some of the cream legbar eggs and am wondering if the cream spot on top of the resulting mostly black chicks indicates that those chicks are male. Some have the spot and others don’t but they are otherwise similarly colored at hatch.
 
All barred chicks would be males as indicated by the headspot. The Legbar would only pass barring down to make offspring
Thanks for responding. Sorry, I’m a newbie here. When you say barred chicks, do you mean breeds that have barring or individual chicks that look a certain way. So is any black chick with a light head spot whose mom is a cream legbar a male?
 
Thanks for responding. Sorry, I’m a newbie here. When you say barred chicks, do you mean breeds that have barring or individual chicks that look a certain way. So is any black chick with a light head spot whose mom is a cream legbar a male?
Barring is just a gene that causes stripes on the feathers. In the chick down, regardless of color, a headspot indicates barring. So any check with a light headspot is a male :)
 

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