Are these cockerals?

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Hi!
So today was re tagging day 🥴 we currently have 30+ chicks on the ground as my sons show them and to get a winner you just have to hatch and grow sooo many 🫣 lucky hubby hasn't asked how many we currently have 🤣🤫
Anyways these 3 have me stumped and I need to ask the brains trust are they cockerals?
This is a brand new line of laced red wyandottes the cockeral was brought up from interstate earlier in the year and the hens are a mix of interstate and local lines as they are so hard to source in Aus! Needless to say we have not learnt our line yet for sexing chicks our local line the girls got the shoulder feathers and tail first but the older one was the first one to get a tail and its quite big for nearly 8 weeks even for a cockeral sorry in advance for the bad photos!
There is 20+ others but they are obvious pullets or cockerals so I haven't bothered posting their pictures! If these are boys we have 7 cockerals and 17 pullets not too bad a ratio 😅
 

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First two are cockerels the last one I’m leaning pullet but would update week 8. They are some good looking birds
Thankyou!
Haha I have put the 3rd one in the males pen so will update in 2 weeks 🙂
This is dad at 6m old and the mother hens
The shape is what we are firstly trying to improve its so hard to find any with decent wyandotte shape in the top (backline) over here, in this colour 😅
We have even considered putting him over a blue orpington to try and increase the overall size and improve the shape
 

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Thankyou!
Haha I have put the 3rd one in the males pen so will update in 2 weeks 🙂
This is dad at 6m old and the mother hens
The shape is what we are firstly trying to improve its so hard to find any with decent wyandotte shape in the top (backline) over here, in this colour 😅
We have even considered putting him over a blue orpington to try and increase the overall size and improve the shape
He’s very nice looking! 😍😍
 

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