How many roos? (6 wk Easter Eggers/Backyard mixes)

[labelo]

Back at my parents' house, so time to play how many roos! These are 6 week old easter egger/backyard mixes hatched from a friend's eggs. Friends say the possible roosters are a Cochin and a couple Americaunas. Hens are a variety of easter eggers, sex links, Wyandottes and Marans.

I've labeled them by number in the photos (click to enlarge), descriptions also below.

1 = white/grey straight comb
2 = dark blue straight comb
3 = black w/silver pattern at hackles and black rose(?) comb
4 = light red w/rose(?) comb
5 = darker red black tails w/pea comb
6 = darker red black tails w/pea comb (slightly bigger than 5)

I feel pretty confident that 1 & 2 are roosters based on comb size/pink. What are your thoughts on 3-6? The different comb types are always hard to compare to each other.
This is for fun, no one needs to be rehomed. They lost their rooster earlier this year and have a large enough flock that 2-3 roos would be fine, especially as their chickens free range and they lose them fairly regularly to hawks.

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[nuthatched]

4 and 3 look like pullets

 

[Pigeony]

Back at my parents' house, so time to play how many roos! These are 6 week old easter egger/backyard mixes hatched from a friend's eggs. Friends say the possible roosters are a Cochin and a couple Americaunas. Hens are a variety of easter eggers, sex links, Wyandottes and Marans.

I've labeled them by number in the photos (click to enlarge), descriptions also below.

1 = white/grey straight comb
2 = dark blue straight comb
3 = black w/silver pattern at hackles and black rose(?) comb
4 = light red w/rose(?) comb
5 = darker red black tails w/pea comb
6 = darker red black tails w/pea comb (slightly bigger than 5)

I feel pretty confident that 1 & 2 are roosters based on comb size/pink. What are your thoughts on 3-6? The different comb types are always hard to compare to each other.
This is for fun, no one needs to be rehomed. They lost their rooster earlier this year and have a large enough flock that 2-3 roos would be fine, especially as their chickens free range and they lose them fairly regularly to hawks.

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1 and 2 are definitely cockerels, 3 and 5 are pullets, 4 and 6 I'm on the fence but leaning pullet for 4.

 

[labelo]

1 and 2 are definitely cockerels, 3 and 5 are pullets, 4 and 6 I'm on the fence but leaning pullet for 4.

Nice to get some confirmation on what I was thinking! I was feeling fairly confident on 3/5 being pullets and unsure on 4/6, but esp. suspicious of 6.

 

[labelo]

Back with 7 week updates. 1/2 are still definitely boys, 3/5 are still definitely girls. I've tried to get closer photos of 4/6, though 4 is really skittish and hard to get a good photo of.

In some lighting 6's pea comb doesn't look very pink at all, but in others it does. It has no visible wattle growth, and especially compared to the two straight combed cockerels 1/2.

4 also doesn't appear to have any wattle growth but in some lighting its comb looks more pink, especially compared to the confirmed pullets 3/5. It appears to have a rose comb, though, and in my experience with wyandottes rose combs tend to pink up early, but not sure if that carries over to backyard mixes.

 

[Pigeony]

I think 4 and 6 are pullets at this point.

 

[labelo]

I think 4 and 6 are pullets at this point.

That would be great! They've discovered an unplanned rooster among their batch of 11 wk old feed store chicks, so the fewer in this batch the better!

 

[Happygocluckee]

I think it's right down the middle 3,4,6 pullets and the others are roos.