You've got a couple of different thoughts here - hence the reason it's always best to wait until you're absolutely sure before you make a final decision. Would be a shame to lose a beautiful bird and have it turn out to be what you wanted in the first place.
I'm also leaning toward cockerel, just by the amount of uneven reddish patches. I tried to enlarge the photos to see if anything else jumped out at me. But at this point it does look like you'll have to wait a little longer to know for sure, as Twistedfeather suggested.