7 week old Satin Silkies: Pullets or Roos?

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Here are my 7 week old satin silkies.
One Splash 🤍
Two Black 💜💙
Two Blue 💚💛

They're color coded with leg bands and doodles in the pictures. Any guesses would be helpful.
TIA!!
 

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Second to the last one is male with that elevated, bulbous comb. I think the last one is, too.

Satin Silkies have purple, irregular combs just like regular ones, but by 12 or 13 weeks, male specific feathering should be apparent in males. They may start showing gold leakage on the shoulders before that.
 
Second to the last one is male with that elevated, bulbous comb. I think the last one is, too.

Satin Silkies have purple, irregular combs just like regular ones, but by 12 or 13 weeks, male specific feathering should be apparent in males. They may start showing gold leakage on the shoulders before that.
I agree, but I'll add I lean to this one too. Looks like some hackles coming in.

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Some of those combs can go either way as they age, so I try to look at their necks and tails more than the combs at that age.

At four months, it should be definitive.
 
I would say blue and purple are male, green could go either way, and white and yellow look female to me. Could change but those would be my guesses for now.
 
Thank you all!!
There are days where I think purple and green are male and the next week I'm changing my mind. So far I really think that the splash is the only pullet although I was hoping that there would be at least 1 more female.
 

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