Please tell me wyandottes might still be hens?!

[HorseGirlAbby]

The Wyandottes are definitely boys. Females have nice even lacing all over; these guys have big patches of color on their wings. The combs are also very big and red, bigger than I’d expect for a pullet of the same age.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

That pattern makes it hard to tell at this stage but these look a lot like male saddle feathers growing in, to my eye
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Not true, iridescence doesn't mean male. Plenty of pullets and hens with black feathers are iridescent too.

Oh my bad! I thought the females in lacing breeds didn't have signs of iridescence

It's what I get for guessing based on little knowledge of the breed!

 

[Beau plus penny]

That pattern makes it hard to tell at this stage but these look a lot like male saddle feathers growing in, to my eye
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Not true, iridescence doesn't mean male. Plenty of pullets and hens with black feathers are iridescent too.

My speckled sussex have shiny feathers

 

[jbj25]

Boys

 

[rosemarythyme]

The golden one might be female!
My reasons:
darker coloring
seems rounded and normal length neck feathers at the base of neck
rounded feathers on the saddle

The color pattern is enough to determine that it's male here, the GLW has rust coloring in his wings and the patterning is uneven and lacing is absent in the neck area. Females would be evenly laced through the entire body.