What gender is this chick, and is it barring?

[ClareScifi]

This chick's mom is a purebred Barred Rock. Its Papa is golden in color with blue hackes and wings and a tail that is white and silvery blue, with a bit of black:

 

[ClareScifi]

This is its Papa:

 

[ClareScifi]

Here is another picture of the chick whose gender I'm hoping to determine at Day 1:

 

[ClareScifi]

And another picture:

 

[Michael OShay]

Your chick is a Black Sex Link pullet. With a pure barred rock mother a cockerel would have a white spot on top of its head. )

 

[ClareScifi]

Thanks, everyone. I named my new little cockerel "General Tso," and today he caught and ate his first bug for breakfast!