10.5 week old chicks, pullet or cockerel?

[kikiwik]

So I bought 8 chicks of various breeds from a hatchery (I have the worst luck with constantly having mostly cockerel flocks and I thought to bypass that this time). I was told that generally they have a 90% pullet-cockerel rate. I get that that's hatchery-wide, but I'm worried I have quite a bit more than that...
I have 8 different heritage breeds and I forgot that that makes it harder to tell whichever are pullets/cockerels due to the differences in how they grow. Hopefully someone can point me to whichever chicks I should try not to be attached to?

 

[kikiwik]

SLW

 

[kikiwik]

Salmon faverolle and possible saddle feather?

 

[kikiwik]

With the SF, I feel like her/his colouring is more typically female, but then that saddle feather came in and I wondered if maybe she's a he, and maybe a splash? It has a lot of dark grey speckling on its chest.

 

[kikiwik]

SDL barnevelder, with questionable lacing. Clear single lacing on breast, but just barred messiness on wings and back. I'd rather a crappily bred hen than a lovely cockerel though lol. In this situation anyways.

 

[kikiwik]

Speckled Sussex, sooo sweet, really hoping this one is a hen. Sorry these are all such terrible pics. I'm trying to get them with my 2 and 5 year old "helping" sooo helpful. Possible saddle feather? I don't know if I'm looking at low down hackle feathers, or saddle feathers and maybe they just look the same on pullets and cockerels until they are a bit bigger?

 

[Alexandra33]

To me, it appears you have nothing but a bunch gorgeous pullets. The Wyandotte is a definite, as are the Faverolles and Barnevelder. All of these can be determined by their plumage alone. I believe your Sussex is also a pullet, since it's not terribly developed, nor red in the comb/wattles.

~Alex

 

[chickendreams24]

X2

 

[kikiwik]

Yaaaaay! Oh I'm so hoping so. We run a home-based business and the cockadoodledooing is seriously a no-go with our being on the phone all the time. Also I just was getting frustrated worrying that I'd driven basically 6 hours to get to a place that had theoretically-sexed heritage breed birds and maybe wasted all my time. I reeeeeeally hate slaughtering heritage roos. Can you tell? Thank you!!

 

[drumstick diva]

The Salmon Faverolles doesn't seem to have 5 toes, or feathered feet which the breed is known for. Which hatchery did you get them from?