Are these 6.5 week old Australorps hens?

They are very pretty by the way. Australorps are one of my favourite breeds.
My gut says 2 pullets, I haven't seen enough development or evidence to call either cockerels. However it is still possible the lighter one may be a slow developing cockerel and I can see why others have said they think it is. But yeah I'm heavily leaning to 2 pullets so don't give up yet! Xx
 
They are very pretty by the way. Australorps are one of my favourite breeds.
My gut says 2 pullets, I haven't seen enough development or evidence to call either cockerels. However it is still possible the lighter one may be a slow developing cockerel and I can see why others have said they think it is. But yeah I'm heavily leaning to 2 pullets so don't give up yet! Xx
Thanks :)
 
The Grey is a cockerel.. lots of red under the chin. The other so far appears to be a pullet still very yellow under the chin.
 
Could you please post some more photos? 6.5 weeks is quite young to sex them at based on comb and wattle. I'm not 100% convinced yet that either are cockerels and a 4 hour trip sucks

They both look like pullets to us.

Here's photos of our chickens at 11 weeks old now ... what do you think? At this stage they both make a similar noise. No obvious behavioural differences between them.
 

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Here's photos of our chickens at 11 weeks old now ... what do you think? At this stage they both make a similar noise. No obvious behavioural differences between them.
My gut still says 2 pullets, but could you get a close up of the splashs back feathers?
 
Oh, I hope you're right. Do you mean a closeup from behind? or from on top?
From the top I mean, I'm looking for any juvenile rooster feathers, if it's a cockerel the feathers should be starting to grow in by now. Sometimes if you divide the back feathers you can see the rooster feathers just starting to grow in
 

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