Yellow colored cream legbar chicks

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I have been raising Crested Cream Legbar chickens for a couple of years now and I have never had yellow chicks pop up before, but in this batch I have 2 cockerels that have the classic yellow dot on their head, but they are very yellow tinted all over; can someone help me figure out what happened genetically and waht will they look like as adults? I am attaching pictures of the chicks, the only rooster that I have as well as the 3 hens that are potentially the mothers.
Thanks so much!
 

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What do your cockerels usually look like? Those don't look too much lighter than what mine did when I had them back in the day.
 
Here are some pictures of the other males that are still in the incubator. I am sorry the pictures aren't great; I don't want to open the incubator yet because there are 3 more eggs in there that haven't hatched yet.
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I am attaching pictures of the chicks, the only rooster that I have
I can't see any crest on him, at least from the angle of that photo.. And his lobes aren't really white either. Plus his shanks and skin aren't yellow..

While the pattern is there and should still breed true and still be autosexing.. I would have to question if CCL was accurate for his breed.

Congrats on your babies! 🥰
 
I was analyzing his leg color earlier today; What has caused his leg color to be lighter instead of yellow when all of the babies are accurately autosexing? He also has a very small crest.
I can't see any crest on him, at least from the angle of that photo.. And his lobes aren't really white either. Plus his shanks and skin aren't yellow..

While the pattern is there and should still breed true and still be autosexing.. I would have to question if CCL was accurate for his breed.

Congrats on your babies! 🥰
 
What do your cockerels usually look like? Those don't look too much lighter than what mine did when I had them back in the day.
A lot of my cockerels are almost as dark as the females, but have the yellow dot on their head. I posted some pictures of the other males in this hatch above. I am going to break them out of the incubator shortly and will take more individual pictures. Here are them out of the incubator, it looks like I have 1 yellowy female and 1 yellowy male. Could my rooster and one of the females be split to frost or pearl or something else?
 

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I think I figured it out, I realized that my rooster and all but one of my hens look to be crele patterned so in the past I have only hatched out crele legbars, but this time I hatched eggs from my youngest hen who is a true cream legbar so I bet those yellowy babies are her babies and that my rooster my be crele but carry cream. Correct me if I am wrong.
 

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