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Grey 2 would be your Cream Legbar Male. Yellow 1 and yellow 2 do not show any distinquishing sign of Legbars or Welsummer. The angle on Grey 1 doesn't show enough markings for me to ID the chick, but it does have the eye liner which would make it a candidate for a Legbar or Welsummer. I don't think the Welsummers get that grey color though. I think they are all brown. The Legbars do have many that get that grey color.
I am not really sure what to look for on the Whiting True Blues. I interviewed Dr. Whiting for an article on breeding blue eggs that was published in the Cream Legbar Club Newsletter. Te said that his Whiting blues were all pea combed and that this Whiting Greens are all single combed. He said that he doesn't breed the Whiting blues for a certain type or a certain color. His only selection criterion is the eggs. Because of this he said that he has seen some new color patterns emerge in the Whiting Blue lines. So...the color of chick could be anything on the Whiting True Blues.
The Cream Legbar Club Newsletter with the interview with Dr Whiting is found on the Cream Legbar Club Website (creamlegbarclub.com). It you go to the NEWS tab and go to the Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter you will find it starting on page 9.
Note: At a Cream Legbar Club table that I did in the Fancy Feathers 4H Clubs Spring APA show we had club members bring day old Legbars chicks. When then asked the public to try their hand and sorting the males from the females. We had photos on out project board showing what to look for in the males and the females. About half would get it right off. the other half would ussually get it with a little bit of coaching after a minute or two. We had one laying who owned Cream Legbars and who had just started her first year of hatching who sorted them all backwards. After coaching her longer than most people required she still wasn't getting it. Then she said something to the effect of "Oh no! I am going to have to get back with that person that I some chicks to last week. She wanted pullets and I now am thinking that I sent her cockerels.
So...no they should have any problem sexing pullets from cockerel at the hatchery for legbars. I have sorted over a 1000 legbars at my place since my first Legbar hatch in 2011 and I have yet to get a single one wrong.
Mhmm. I know they're not welsummers. I'm pretty sure the grayish ones are legbar males. Just waiting to see if the yellows are A) more legbar males, B) whiting true blues that have a single comb for some reason C) something completely different that I didn't order. At this point they could have sent me anything! If my packing slip hadn't been taped to the box, I'd think they shipped me someone else's order. I'll try to update this in 5 or 6 weeks when I know more. In the meantime I'm still interested in seeing what other people's WTB's looked like as chicks.
