Help! Gender Advice - 9 separate Chick pictures

Size of comb can tell a lot when you're comparing among the same kind of chicken, at the same age. But some breeds naturally have larger combs than others, and some have combs of different shapes. #8 has a single comb, #9 has a pea comb--it's wider, lower, and differently shaped. That makes it hard to learn anything by comparing the two of them with each other. I think #5 with the very small comb has a pea comb as well.

Chicks that have a barred mother and a not-barred father can be sexed by color (the mother passes barring to her sons only). But a Cream Legbar father passes barring to both his sons and his daughters, so it won't help in sexing these chicks.

My guesses on gender:
1 male?
2 male??
3 female
4 male
5 ????
6 female
7 female
8 male
9 male?

The number of question marks is a marker for how unsure I am :)
Thank you for taking the time for all that, it helps so much. We have been breeding pure bred cattle for 20 years but chickens are a new fun venture!
 
#1 Olive Egger Hen x Cream Leg Bar rooster -tail is very erect when standing
Updated picture - please disregard the # on this updated picture, I got my numbers mixed up
 

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Yes, size of the comb can matter. At this age, lack of color is good (more likely female), presence of wattle growth often indicates male at this age...sometimes females get some color in their wattles, but usually no growth at such a young age. A Leghorn female develops a pretty good comb early on, but it is smaller than the males with less or no color, just as an example of comb growth. There are also a few breeds that can be feather sexed within the first few days and some that are sex linked - so their fluff color at hatch differ in some way. I'm not sure if a Legbar is sex-linked in any way.
I’m back to bug now that they are older! 8 week old Leghorn cross, likely Roo?
 

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Size of comb can tell a lot when you're comparing among the same kind of chicken, at the same age. But some breeds naturally have larger combs than others, and some have combs of different shapes. #8 has a single comb, #9 has a pea comb--it's wider, lower, and differently shaped. That makes it hard to learn anything by comparing the two of them with each other. I think #5 with the very small comb has a pea comb as well.

Chicks that have a barred mother and a not-barred father can be sexed by color (the mother passes barring to her sons only). But a Cream Legbar father passes barring to both his sons and his daughters, so it won't help in sexing these chicks.

My guesses on gender:
1 male?
2 male??
3 female
4 male
5 ????
6 female
7 female
8 male
9 male?

The number of question marks is a marker for how unsure I am :)
This one has shiny green feathers but I’ve learned it’s mother could have been Astrolope?
 

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The black one (picture says #2, black feathers, small comb, mother might have been an Australorp) looks like a pullet to me at present.
 
The black one (picture says #2, black feathers, small comb, mother might have been an Australorp) looks like a pullet to me at present.
Thank you!!
Pretty confident this is a Roo tho?
 

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