Please help me sex my chicks!

Claudinechick

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Hello everyone! I incubated 12 eggs 2 months ago and now I have 12 beautiful 5 weeks old chicks! They are all healthy and chipping away in the coop nursery! The only thing I would like to know now is which of my chicks are actually Cockerels and which one are Pullets! I will list down their breed and a photo of each one in the description! Thanks already for the help

I already know Moana(12) and Fiona(10) are Cockerels and that Pocahontas(11) is a pullet but that's pretty much it!

I also realized that my bravest chicks stay outside when I come by the coop while my most skitish ones will go hide inside! I wonder if is linked in any way to their sex? I'll join a picture of that as well just for the fun of it!
 
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Here's the chicks photos
 

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There are a few that I feel really comfortable saying are roos or pullets. Combs aren't the best way to sex chicks but it's almost always a roo when you see red in the comb at 5 weeks or younger in my experience. The single combed breeds also seem to have a more rounded comb when it's a roo. Polish are a tough one for me to sex so I'm not going to try but the roos will usually have messier looking crests with more thin pointed feathers.

These are my guesses:
1. Pullet
2. Roo
3. Pullet
4. I suspect roo because my Orpington roos show wattles early
5. Pullet
6. ?
7. I think pullet?
8. ?
9. Roo
10. Roo
11. Pullet
12. Roo
 
Thought I would update you guys on the chicks! They are now 6 months old!
1.Rooster
2.Rooster
3.Hen
4.Hen
5.Hen
6.Hen
7.Hen
8.Rooster
9.Rooster
10.Rooster
11.Hen
12.Rooster
 

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