Help determining gender of chicks

[hlmford69]

I have two chicks (I think they’re about 7 weeks old) that the gender is questionable. All we’re supposed to be sexed and hens but I’m pretty sure the speckled Sussex is a male and I have a Cinnamon Queen that has some red wattles that look like they could be starting and the comb looks reddish but has some yellow too so I’m hoping she’s a female.

I tried my best to get decent pictures of their side views, tails, and up close, but they were moving fast. I hope you are able to get a good enough look at them.

 

[azygous]

The SS is definitely a cockerel. The Cinnamon Queen may be a pullet with just a bit of excess pigment in the comb. Sex links are so easily sexed at hatch, it would be a gross act of incompetence to sex it wrong. But it does happen. I've had cockerels turn up in an order of auto-sexable breeds. It's sort of like getting your own birthday wrong when filling out a form, requiring stunning stupidity.

 

[hlmford69]

Hahaha! That cracked me up. I hope it's a case of excess pigment and not stupidity. Thank you!