Wheaten Maran Boy or Girl?

jswalker

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Here are the picts of my 2 wheaten Maran chicks, they are about 8 weeks old. I'm thinking both roo's
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, but hope I'm wrong! I appreciate all your guesses!!!
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Chick 1
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another picture of same chick 1
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Chick 2
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another picture of chick 2
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I have a blue marans and a black copper marans and my roos are very obvious looking, yours looking like pullets to me, but I am only going by the comb, Mine are only 4 weeks old also
 
Looks like they might be pullets to me too. I had my very first wheaten hatch this past weekend and I asked on the marans thread how to sex it. I was told that at about 5-7 days old, the feathers of a pullet will come out wheaten or brownish. The cockeral's will start coming out black because the wheaten roo tends to look a lot like the black copper marans aside from the color of a triangle of feathers.
 
Any other guesses? Getting excited about them maybe being girls
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