Any guesses on the gender for these 6-8 week old Welsummers and Olive Eggers?

The comb and wattles on #6 are screaming cockerel to me! And number 9 is also giving me strong cockerel vibes.

#7 and #3 I'm leaning cockerel but not at all certain.

Everyone else is looking pretty girly so far.
 
I would very much like full body pictures. I never only look at their comb and waddles to determine the gender.
Here are 7 of them ( all I could catch right now). Sorry if the faces arent clear.
 

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Here are 7 of them ( all I could catch right now). Sorry if the faces arent clear.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most (6/7) of these pictures have female-specific color/pattern?
Excluding the buff colored chick, the rest look like classic duckwing pullet coloring to me?
 
Well, combs and wattles aren't exactly accurate, especially for the welsummer mixes. A full-body side profile for each (not held so we can see the best) with a paired face picture would make it so people have the most accurate guesses. Even then, educated guesses can still be wrong because there are outliers. I don't have welsummers myself, so I couldn't say my guess is all that accurate.
A welsummer pullet is similar to a brown leghorn pullet but has a smaller comb.The cockerels have a bigger comb and black breast feathers and tail feathers
 

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The buff one is an Olive Egger
That does make sense. I'd be concerned if it was advertised as a Welsummer

I can't comment on the gender of the buff, but the other 6 in those pictures appear to have female-specific duckwing coloring.
Like a Welsummer pullet/hen would.
A male would have a black body, and red/gold neck and back.
 
That does make sense. I'd be concerned if it was advertised as a Welsummer

I can't comment on the gender of the buff, but the other 6 in those pictures appear to have female-specific duckwing coloring.
Like a Welsummer pullet/hen would.
A male would have a black body, and red/gold neck and back.
Nice, thanks! Two of the Welsummer-like pictures are of 2 additional Olive Eggers, though. Do you still think those are females? The coloring is only slightly different from the Welsummers
 
Nice, thanks! Two of the Welsummer-like pictures are of 2 additional Olive Eggers, though. Do you still think those are females? The coloring is only slightly different from the Welsummers
I believe they likely are, at least to my current understanding of how it works.
If you look at pictures of Welsummer hens and roosters, the hens will have different breast feathers and wings than the roosters. (Similar for several breeds, such as the Brown Leghorn. Barred examples are Bielefelder and Crested Cream Legbar.)

I don't know if the buff is a pullet or cockerel. Might need to wait longer, as most colors/patterns aren't distinct at this age like the duckwing is.
 

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