Please help! 8 week old chicks, getting desperate!

[LolaBlue]

We are having horrible luck with our first ever hatch, we're down to 3 chicks from the original 8 and I keep going back and forth on their genders!
Any opinion would be GREATLY appreciated!

None are completely feathered out so I didn't take a full body shot, please let me know if that would help though!

Barnevelder (he's squinting in one of these pics, that's why his eye's half closed, he's not sickly)

Hamburg

RIR

 

[gabirder]

Hamburg and RIR - pullet
Barnevelder - maybe pullet, maybe roo, ughmmm

 

[ChickenBoy2013]

To me they all look like hens but it is hard to tell still. Maybe wait a week or two longer or get someone else's opinion.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Hamburg and RIR- pullets
Barnevelder- could be either but I think it looks more like a cockeral

 

[my sunwolf]

At 8 weeks old, they all look like pullets so far... cockerels usually have larger combs and wattles than that by 8 weeks, though there are some exceptions.

 

[LolaBlue]

Thank you all for your opinions I figured roos would have bigger combs by 8 weeks but the Barnie and the RIR seem kind of pinkish to me. I may just be getting paranoid though!
Fwiw I named the Barnie "Neil Patrick Harris" at 2 weeks because I thought he was a roo haha

 

[Angelight]

My polish cross had a much larger comb than my pullet at 6 weeks. At 8 weeks it was much redder. At 11 weeks, I'm not even questioning it. Definitely a cockerel. Mine are fully feathered, though.

 

[Angelight]

So, I'm voting pullets all.

I'm totally new to this, though.

 

[LolaBlue]

Thanks Angelight, I kind of assumed I would be able to tell by now for sure too, which is why I'm so confused!

I'm assuming them not being fully feathered is because of the weather here? All our hens are moulting so I figure that might factor into it.

 

[Drevious]

Out of curiosity why are you getting desperate? Because you've lost 5 chicks?