Barred Rock or Cuckoo Marans? Cockerel or Pullet?

This is what I originally thought but it just doesn't look roosterish yet. Plus when I went to find out the difference between BR cockerels and pullets, it seemed like a pullet (black with white stripes, small dot on head, dark splash on feet) but maybe it's just a later bloomer
Probably a bit of a later bloomer. Orpingtons tend to be more on the slow side to mature. And that comb is awfully pink.

The size of the dot isn't determined by sex. Female barred rocks have smaller white head spots because they can only have one barring gene. Males with two copies of the barring gene will have a larger head spot than females, but males with only one copy will look the same as females with one copy until the secondary sex characteristics start showing. Single barred males are also going to have darker plumage like female barred rocks. I'm not sure if/how single vs double barring affects leg color.
 
Ok guys, I have actual pictures of the possible dads now and the orpington rooster is definitely a barred mix which I didn't notice before. Don't know if that changes things if he is the dad? If he actually carries the barred gene then baby could be a female after all, right? :D

And I now realize that I said I thought one rooster was a black one but clearly theses are both barred therefore my chick could very well be a pullet! Woot! Well, we won't get our hopes up still. And I guess he could have either one of these dads in that case.
 

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Oh yeah, that definitely changes things. With either of those two roosters you got a 50 /50 chance of either pullet or Rockefeller. I'm still leaning cockerel but not with any confidence. How old is your chick in the last photos again?
 
Here are more from yesterday. He is seven weeks tomorrow. I've put a couple pictures of our Sapphire Gem pullet for comparison.
 

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