Sexing single barred roosters - help!

Steinagarden

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Anyone here good at sexing single barred chicks? I am a bit confused over this hatch and struggle with some of the chicks here.

I hatched 9 chicks. Hen is Cream Legbar (B and e+e+). Rooster is Leghorn in the colour lavender (not barred, and he is also e+e+). He could be split to silver Ss or silver S. Cream Legbar is s (gold) and igig (cream).

All of the males from this combination is single barred. All of the females are not. 2 chicks are clearly males, 1 chick is clearly female. The 6 others I am not sure of, I think some of them have a little white dot indicating males, but at the same time they have a really strong chipmunk but not any close to the clear female? Are all of them males?

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Blue circle is males, pink is female, but what about the ones in the white circle?

Thank you 😊
 

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Since these are mixes, the only indicator will be the white spot on the back of the head for males. The trouble is that it can be very difficult to see on chipmunk striped chicks, and sometimes it doesn't show at all. I really think you will have to wait to tell gender later if you want accuracy.
Yeah I agree. It's so difficult to tell. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that these might additionally be males but this is just a complete guess. I'm using the logic that single barred males would look similar to Legbar females so I'm just picking chicks that look like female autosexing chicks I've had in the past.

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