Age estimate and gender on a couple of them? (had them for 5 weeks now)

fluffpuffgerbil

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Jun 10, 2013
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Bought them at Wilco(feedstore local to PNW), and they had a 95% guarantee of being female, but one or two I suspect might not be girls.... Also, I've had them for 5 weeks, but I keep seeing other chickens who people say are 4-5 weeks and they are a lot less feathered?

Size when I got them:





Pepper today, sold to me as rhode island red pullet, but she's probably just a production red? I thought she was around 5.5 weeks:













My camera seems to wash out the colour on the faces/comb a bit, but in person, her comb definitely seems pinkish down closer to her head. Her wattles have just recently become a little more pink.

Ruby(gold laced wyandotte), sold as pullet, I assume was around 5.5 weeks



















Her legs are as thick as my index finger, as this picture shows
My other wyandotte(silver laced) has about the same thickness in legs, and some pink in her comb and has barely visible wattles.

Here's Lacey on my shoulder...^






I think Lacey's a pullet

Now here's just a bunch of pictures of all six playing outside for the first time so you can just see their normal stances and whatnot
I'm only concerned at the moment with the genders of Pepper, Ruby, and Lacey though



































Thanks and let me know if you need a pic of someone/something specific, I tried to get the best angles I could
 
Aghk shoot, Pepper's everyone's favourite =( I want a cockerel honestly, but don't think my neighbors or dad would want one... I've been suspicious of Pepper for a long time, though, and Ruby I thought looked male, too. Pepper acts like a cockerel also, very forward, very friendly, stands very proud, jumps at the others,

Ruby is one of the most reserved of all of them, though, but from how it looks, was thinking cockerel, so not really surprised. In denial about Pepper, though
 
The red is absolutely for sure a dude!! Ours was obvious a bit before that old. I'd lean dude and keep watch on the gold one too but I don't have one or stare at them to be 100% quite yet.
 
The black and white one is an ancona, which are very similar to leghorns if I understand correctly, and though she has a lot of comb, it's not quite red yet and her comb and wattles aren't nearly as pronounced as Pepper's(who is a Rhode Island? I was hoping for that, but wasn't sure since feedstore and stuff =P Yay! Except I want to keep him....) and Ruby's.
















She stands like a hen(she is pretty upright because she's never been outside the brooder in the garage and wanted to go back over to the brooder) and she has extremely thin legs, is very timid, and just all around seem hen-ish unlike Pepper.

Alice is the ancona
 
The Ancona is a pullet, they naturally have a little more comb due to being a Mediterranean type. You can see her comb is peachy colored still and she has no wattle development.

Your Red has red wattles and it looks the GLW is developing them too, which is a red flag for boys at their age about 5 weeks. They were day olds or only a few days old when you got them judging by the lack of wing feathering in the baby pic.
 

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