What sex are my Cream Legbar chicks? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[EmJayne7]

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!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

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.

 

[EmJayne7]

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.

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

 

[EmJayne7]

So the only other roo with access to these hens is an Exchequer Leghorn, and those are born black and white so now I’m extra confused

 

[Frazzemrat1]

So the only other roo with access to these hens is an Exchequer Leghorn, and those are born black and white so now I’m extra confused

Interesting! Well, with that cross, the girls should lay light blue... and will technically be easter eggers.

 

[EmJayne7]

Interesting! Well, with that cross, the girls should lay light blue... and will technically be easter eggers.

All the eggs were identical! I’m thinking maybe a Cream Legbar/Exchequer Leghorn cross? It’s cute whatever it is! Just hope it’s not a roo!

 

[PRchick]

None of those chicks look like Cream Legbars. They all look like some mix. The yellow ones are too light, I think they might be from the Leghorn rooster. The dark ones I'm totally baffled about, unless they are sex-links. Of course, genetics is not my forte.

All the eggs would have been blue, because the eggs are the color that the hen lays eggs, no matter who the rooster is.

 

[AusHen]

Arent Exchequer Leghorns mottled with excess white? Of so that would explain the black chick as mottled wouldnt show unless bred to another mottled as its recessive.

 

[EmJayne7]

Yeah I thought the yellows were too light! However they’ve got some dark stripes coming through now I have no idea about the genetics behind it haha! I thought the exchequer was classed as white with black flecks? So who knows haha! Not needing to know the genders as will wait until they’re grown up anyways as roosters go to the gamekeeper

 

[Frazzemrat1]

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