What sex are my Cream Legbar chicks? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[The Moonshiner]

Lets get our resident leghorn expert on this conversation.... @The Moonshiner Can you give us some advise about exchequer leghorns?

I have no idea what's going on.
Agree they look nothing like CCL chicks and an exchequer rooster wouldn't produce those lighter chicks.
Better call in some real experts.
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[EmJayne7]

I have no idea what's going on.
Agree they look nothing like CCL chicks and an exchequer rooster wouldn't produce those lighter chicks.
Better call in some real experts.
Scooby-Doo Where Are You !!!!!
We Have A Mystery To Solve !!!!!
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Love this! Will keep you all updated with photos! They were having a lovely time napping on my chest just now only 2 days old!

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I suspect they're Frost White Legbars... Did the breeder carry them? The black chick obviously has the Leghorn in in, but for the others it seems plausible. This variety is also not autosexing

 

[EmJayne7]

I suspect they're Frost White Legbars... Did the breeder carry them? The black chick obviously has the Leghorn in in, but for the others it seems plausible. This variety is also not autosexing

Sorry, not sure what you mean by carrying? Do you mean the gene? I don’t know too much about them other than the mothers are pure cream Legbars wish I could be more help! I’ve got 1 pale one that doesnt really have a stripe, 3 that seem to have faint chipmunk stripes, and one that has the most prominent stripes….. I’ve popped some photos on, 2 group photos, and one of the one without stripes and the one with the most prominent stripes.

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

I’m having trouble sexing some of the Cream Legbars I’ve hatched yesterday…. Not sure if they’ll change more in the next 12hrs? They hatched between 6pm last night and 4am this morning! Looking at wing feathers, two out of three of the really light ones have alternating short and long wing feathers, however they have no dot on their forehead or lines, so thinking pullet? And the really dark one has no chipmunk lines so I’m not sure what to think! I’m a bit baffled! They’re all definitely Pure Cream Legbars too as the cockerel was closed in his pen with the ladies for a few days before the eggs were collected!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Grreat job! And welcome, Btw!

And.... Hens can hold sperm for a couple of weeks I believe. Usually, you need to have them locked with the desired rooster for at least two months before you can say that's where these eggs were fertilized from. Did another rooster have access to them before you put the legbar rooster in with them? I'm asking because these guys don't look like legbar chicks at all.

I agree with Frazz ( do you mind if I call you that?)! They don't look anything like cream leg bars, but then again, I can't tell one chicken from another. So, I'd say their totally mutts!
Not my pic, but you get the ponit.

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

I suspect they're Frost White Legbars... Did the breeder carry them? The black chick obviously has the Leghorn in in, but for the others it seems plausible. This variety is also not autosexing

She hatched and bred them.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

She hatched and bred them.

I did not take it that way at all. The OP said this which implies that they're not her own but I could be misunderstanding

There may have been access from another rooster but I’d be unsure of the breed! I’ll ask her and see! Thanks!

 

[-Clementine-]

I suspect they're Frost White Legbars... Did the breeder carry them? The black chick obviously has the Leghorn in in, but for the others it seems plausible. This variety is also not autosexing

Frost white legbar is a hatchery re-branding. The proper name for a white colored legbar is 'white legbar'. The white legbar also can be autosexed, it is just harder, and most breeders don't breed their white legbar stock for autosexing

 

[-Clementine-]

White legbars are colored white because of recessive white. Is it possible your stock carries recessive white? It is not the most uncommon. As they grow up, watch for tiny crests, and if they get crests, then they are white legbars

 

[EmJayne7]

Frost white legbar is a hatchery re-branding. The proper name for a white colored legbar is 'white legbar'. The white legbar also can be autosexed, it is just harder, and most breeders don't breed their white legbar stock for autosexing

I did not take it that way at all. The OP said this which implies that they're not her own but I could be misunderstanding

I didn’t breed the mothers but the lady I’m hatching them for hatched and reared them. This is all getting a bit confusing sorry!