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Both look like pullets for now.

Rosie is definitely a cockerel. FanFan is definitely a pullet. Blondie looks like a cockerel.

How big is your coop/run setup? Any very large breeds or bantam breeds? What are you feeding? Sorry for the questions, but needed to figure out how to help.

Pullet.

Yep, that's a cockerel.

Looks like it's a slow developing cockerel to me.

Too young. Try again at 6 weeks.

All pullets.

No. Yours is female. It just happens to pop up more in cockerels than pullets with my line.

All have perfectly normal tails, but not the typical tail feathers. Most with this feature are males and culls. Once plucked, they look no different from their tailed brothers.

She's not rumpless. She's just missing normal tail feathers. It's been popping up in my line of Easter Eggers, originally sourced from Ideal Poultry, for a few years. I'll go snap some pics of them. BRB.

They are supposed to lay dark reddish brown eggs, but hatchery stock can lay average brown eggs.

Could it be that one of your Brown Leghorns may actually be a Welsummer?

It's possible.

Yes, both are Easter Eggers. There is absolutely no way to predict what they will lay. You'll just have to be patient.

It's not a typical trait of hatchery sourced birds. It's more typical of a hobby breeder adding in something with a rose comb to the lineage. The pea comb gene is linked to the blue shell gene. A cushion comb is the result of the pea comb combined with the rose comb gene.

Cockerel. Male specific hackle and saddle feathers.

Still a pullet. That's the same shade on the top of her head. Not dark enough to be rooster red.

Rose comb and silver through the neck mean she's an Easter Egger mix, probably with Wyandotte. Still a pullet.

Cockerel.