Whelp…. Winter is coming but i hatched eggs anyway.

[LtDanFan]

so i hatched eggs that were given to me because i wanted white egg layers to round out my multicolored basket and i threw in a few of my eggs since i had room in the incubator.
My roo: pure bred crested cream legbar. My hens: olive eggers, BYM, pure bred CCl, Easter eggers. I know there are some that i will just have to wait, grow up and feed before i can tell if they are Roos, but there are a few i have questions about.
The dark ones i am pretty sure are CCl pullets. The lighter ones i am not sure and the ones with dots, can i assume they are male given their likely parentage? Here’s a smattering of what i got…..
If it matters these chicks hatched from blue eggs or olive eggs. I think blue circled ones are pure CCL’s because they look the same (which i have CCL hens and a roo), I’m more curious about the others. If there’s a way to tell with CCL mixes. I think i have a few more Roos this time around cause many have spots on their heads, despite the body color, but am curious about opinions on these ones. I can post the spotted heads later if need be.

 

[JedJackson]

Since the father is double barred, all of his offspring will have at least one barring gene. It may or may not show up as a head spot on striped chick down. Really only pure Legbars can be sexed according to the usual autosexing methods, but I don't see any way at this stage to tell the pure Legbars from the rest of the striped chicks.

 

[LtDanFan]

So it’s possible that the ones with the stripes AND a head spot may be female if the hen was one of my non CCL hens? That actually gives me hope. For what it’s worth, the olive eggers I have seem to be CCL crosses as they have crests and kind of rosy breasts but they dont quite have the same coloring as my pure bred CCL hens. I have a feeling from what i know of egg shell color genetics that i will end up with a lot of green and blue layers. Hopefully a white one or two in the mix, though as that’s the original reason i even hatched out this time of year.