Week old chick ID needed - Ideal Pullet Surprise

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We ordered nine chicks from Ideal Poultry. They are a week and 3 days old. We purchased 2 New Hampshires, 2 Black Australorps, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 Easter Eggers, along with 1 pullet surprise. We thought we had figured out the surprise but when they started feathering on their wings, that changed our thoughts! So what would you say this chick is? Clean legged. I attached the best photos that we could get, as the baby wasn't being cooperative. :)
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Would that mean it’s a rooster then? All the pictures of pullets for gold sex links are much darker than this. We already have a rooster and don’t want another.
I'm probably wrong on the breed of it ends up being a cockerel. I believe the gold sex links cockerels feather is whitish.
 
It is a pullet with more than a 90% probability if sold that way From Ideal.

The white feathers will molt out and the chick will look a lot different then. Post more pictures is a couple of weeks.
 
The chicks are 3 weeks old, and now we aren’t sure we received what we ordered. We were supposed to have two New Hampshires, and one surprise. Chick #2 is definitely a New Hampshire, but are any of the others? Also, looks like it is turning out to be a rooster, look at that comb.
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Chick #2 This one is for sure a New Hampshire.
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Chick #3
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