3 WEEKS OLD

Male = top image

Female = bottom image

At 3 weeks the chicks first feathers were starting to come through ^_^ the male is a barred grey colour and the girl almost has partridge coloring in shades of brown. The male is also developing a nice crest on his head.

6 DAYS OLD

Female = left
Male = right

SEXINGS CREAM LEGBAR CHICKS

WATCH VIDEO OF CHICKS

Sexing Cream Legbar chicks should be relatively straight forward. Males should be a paler (blonde) shade with pale markings and with a distinctive blonde 'spot' on their head (chick on left). Females will generally be a darker shade with definate dark stripes running from the top of their heads and down their backs. Females also have what I like to call 'Egyptian' eye markings ^_^ which are dark stripes running from the edges of their eyes (just like Cleopatra).

SECOND HATCH

VIEW VIDEO OF HATCH

The second chick hatched a good half a day after the first, despite this egg being the smallest!

It seems as though we have one male and one female chick (sadly we wont be able to keep the male but we will raise him alongside the female as a companion).

FIRST HATCH

One of the eggs hatched during the night! We woke up to find a very confused chick laying on its back flapping like mad ^_^

...no signs from the other egg though :(

DAY 20

THE EGGS ARE PIPPING!...well one of them at least ^_^

There is a tiny hole poking through one of the eggs and if you listen closely you can hear little cheeps!!

DAY 15

I lost another egg today :( the power cut must have weakened the peep inside and then it died soon after.

I now only have two left, fingers crossed everything will be ok with them....and that they arn't both cockerels!

After candling the eggs I noticed that one was looking more 'watery' inside (not dark and full of healthy blood vessels like the other two). And after a day of waiting to make sure it wasnt still alive, I decided to remove the egg so it didn't infect the other two.

When I opened the egg it was clear that the peep had died and that the embryo was beginning to break down into a mush *_*

It's really upsetting when the chicks fail to develop after all the effort I have put into turning them and keeping them safe :(