Sexing chicks-comb color or size?

[SnowBirds]

I am stumped on this chicks gender. My best guess is that she’s a bantam cochin/white leghorn. She has a very similar body shape to my bantam white leghorn but feathered legs-although not heavily feathered cochin legs. Her comb is quite large but at 7 weeks it still seems quite pale. Does large comb=roo or pale comb=Pullet? Or still too early? When can you generally tell definitively? Thank you!

 

[NuggetTheChicken]

Cockerel. You can usually tell by the color and comb size as well as wattle coming out (the things under the mouth). On females, the combs and wattles don't get big until they are about to lay. On males they come out earlier.

 

[SnowBirds]

Would this be the case even if (s)he is half bantam leghorn? I thought their combs grow in earlier because they are so prominent. Does the color look like a roo?

 

[Chicken101-07]

If you are not sure you can check the back their legs,in the guys,tiny stumps or buds start growing in which at an older age will become the spurs that's if he is old enough ,pullets will not have this,this is how I know if I cannot figure out the gender, I do it with non feathered leg breeds,I'm not sure if the same goes for feathered leg breeds,never have own any.

 

[Mamatomany123]

If you are not sure you can check the back their legs,in the guys,tiny stumps or buds start growing in which at an older age will become the spurs that's if he is old enough ,pullets will not have this,this is how I know if I cannot figure out the gender, I do it with non feathered leg breeds,I'm not sure if the same goes for feathered leg breeds,never have own any.

This will not work at 7 weeks. By the time this works the chicken will be crowing or laying eggs.

 

[neiowa]

Ended up with a rooster to be in the latest batch of 12 chicks (and 3 old girls). Have never had a rooster. Thinking will keep him.

When do we need to get him out of the girls dorm? Don't want to get into having to candle every egg produced (or to incubate eggs now). New chicks were hatched Feb7.