6-week OE and EE - sexing help please

[maryn7]

Checking in at the bare minimum because I'm pretty sure my EE is a cockerel (please say I'm wrong! - but I don't like the look of those red feathers on the sides).



And I have no idea what's up with this Olive Egger - feather pattern is very strange. She's just got a whole bunch of fluffy feathers on the neck. Started out pure white and got these orange patches almost immediately.



And my Black Australorp for fun. She popped this comb early, but it seems to have stayed put. She has the longest tail I've ever seen on a chick.



Appreciate your thoughts. I know it's on the early side. Thanks!

 

[SilverBirds]

The all look like pullets!

 

[nuthatched]

I think you're right about the dark one being a cockerel

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Right now I'd go with all pullets. Check back in a few weeks.

 

[Painted Calls]

That first one definitely seems suspicious. The rest ate pullets.

Post updated pics of that first EE in a couple more weeks.

 

[maryn7]

I forgot what an emotional roller-coaster it is getting replies to this question!

Thanks, folks.

 

[maryn7]

Alright - here is the suspect, now at 8 weeks. I'm pretty resigned to a cockerel, but the shoulder feathers that worry me are really more orange than the rust/red I see on other EE males. But also... come on.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

She's a pullet!

 

[maryn7]

Oh man! I would really love that to be the case.

Hoping @nuthatched and @Overo Mare will weigh in since they are suspicious, like me.

 

[nuthatched]

Those red patches....but nothing else screams cockerel