What does a head spot mean IF... ?

[Minky]

I have 7 new chicks (they will be olive Eggers). Being raised by a broody.

DAD is a Cream Leg Bar.
MOMS are Black copper Marans and Welsummer.
6 of 7 are Marans type looking.
1 is yellow with a tiny eye stripe

 

[Minky]

here they are. 5 with head spots, one yellow with tiny eye liner , one no spot
Please tell me the head spot doesn't mean rooster!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Congratulations on your new babies!
Making olive eggers I see!
I know that head spots are seen with barred chicks, and the CLB father is barred, so it may mean they are boys, but from what I understand, the hen has to be the barred parent to get the sex linking quality. I honestly do not know enough to be very helpful.
I would do a search in the threads and see if anyone else has tried this cross and what results they got.
You may not get too many responses today because of the holiday.
Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Just realized you are in Canada, so no holiday for you!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

No sexlinking there.
Dad is double barred.
Do you have any other roos?
They should all be barred.
But two aren’t. The yellow and pure black.

 

[Minky]

No sexlinking there.
Dad is double barred.
Do you have any other roos?
They should all be barred.
But two aren’t. The yellow and pure black.

I have lots of other roos but they are all locked away and have been for months. The Cream leg bar is dad for sure.

 

[Minky]

No sexlinking there.
Dad is double barred.
Do you have any other roos?
They should all be barred.
But two aren’t. The yellow and pure black.

so the white head spot in this case means that the chicken will be barred?

 

[featherhead007]

Just realized you are in Canada, so no holiday for you!

Why don't we just make a holiday for Canada too? (Canadian goose instead of turkey)?

 

[Minky]

Why don't we just make a holiday for Canada too? (Canadian goose instead of turkey)?

We already had ours at our harvest time in October!

 

[featherhead007]

We already had ours at our harvest time in October!

Oh OK. Just a thought