Five Week old chicks, one Delaware is a lot bigger, cockerel?

Updates. The comb is getting redder, while the others are still pale. Still massive, feathering is getting suspicious, spur buds are just slightly bigger.
NOTE my camera doesn't pick up how red the comb is. It's a bit redder than it appears in the photos. Almost a pale pink lady apple red.
I'd say cockerel, because my gut says he's a boy :p His eyes look cockerel-ish, and he has big feet. How old is he now?
 
I’m going pullet. I see little to no color and as you say it is much bigger I am thinking its a masculine pullet.
There is a lot more color on the comb than the photo suggests, my camera isn't the greatest at colors. The color can now be seen from a bit of a distance.
Some of my suspicion also lies in the feather color patterning, as it seems to more closely match that of a Delaware roo.
 
These are both Delawares, right? There's a huge difference in comb size.
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Mixed pics of them together, the sus one, and the definite pullet.
 

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The patterning on delewares can very quite a bit especially on hatchery birds. The Delewares Iv had were larger as chicks than other breeds. My first thought was cockeral due to early waddle growth. Looking at it now I'm not as sure. I would have expected more comb and wattle growth and a brighter red by now on a cockeral.
 
Strange bahavioir update. If the pullets are scared of it's rainy, the sus cockerel will stand over them, or let them huddle up under 'him'. Has also had a bit more of a voice than the others for quite some time.
 

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