Sexing cream legbar X Swedish flower hen chicks at hatch

[Baahaus]

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.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

All barred chicks would be males as indicated by the headspot. The Legbar would only pass barring down to make offspring

 

[Baahaus]

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?

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

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

 

[Baahaus]

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

Thank you! So much to learn!

 

[Guinea Math]

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.

A Cream Legbar hen only has one barring gene and she can only give it to her sons, so yes a head dot would mean males. But if you did the opposite cross with a Cream Legbar rooster, who has 2 barring genes- he gives a barring gene to ALL of his offspring so they’d all have head dots.