Are these male cream legbar chicks?

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My question is if there is a slight white spot on the head - is the chick always a male regardless of the other coloring? Are these all males?
 

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I'm not an expert, but I did purchase 2 Crested Cream Legbars a few months ago. First time I've had this breed (ordered 1 pullet and 1 cockerel)

Of your pictures, the one that has a very small yellow patch on the head I believe is a pullet.

The other one, I assume is a cockerel. But I'm not completely positive, honestly.

(Lower is an explanation that you may or may not want to read)

The barring gene causes a yellow/white spot on the head of newly hatched chicks.
Males can have up to 2 copies of the barring gene, females can have up to 1.
2 copies makes the yellow/white spot larger. (Or, somebody should correct me... I'm not sure how large it makes the spot, or what other things to look for...)

Their coloring is also slightly different. Depending on how good the auto-sexing color a certain strain has, with this breed, you're supposed to be able to tell male from female just by looking at the pattern on their back. Females have dark "chipmunk stripes", and males are supposed to be lighter, without the chipmunk stripes.

Yours look fairly similar to mine when I got them at 2-3 days old.
You could look up examples online and it might make more sense

Just in case
Pullet = young female chicken
Cockerel = young male chicken
Hen = female chicken over 1 year of age
Rooster = male chicken over 1 year of age

*edited to change autocorrect/typo. Hopefully that was the only one
 
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I'm not an expert, but I did purchase 2 Crested Cream Legbars a few months ago. First time I've had this breed (ordered 1 pullet and 1 cockerel)

Of your pictures, the one that has a very small yellow patch on the head I believe is a pullet.

The other one, I assume is a cockerel. But I'm not completely positive, honestly.

(Lower is an explanation that you may or may not want to read)

The barring gene causes a yellow/white spot on the head of newly hatched chicks.
Males can have up to 2 copies of the barring gene, females can have up to 1.
2 copies makes the yellow/white spot larger. (Or, somebody should correct me... I'm not sure how large it makes the spot, or what other things to look for...)

Their coloring is also slightly different. Depending on how good the auto-sexing color a certain strain has, with this breed, you're supposed to be able to tell male from female just by looking at the pattern on their back. Females have dark "chipmunk stripes", and males are supposed to be lighter, without the chipmunk stripes.

Yours look fairly similar to mine when I got them at 2-3 days old.
You could look up examples online and it might make more sense

Just in case
Pullet = young female chicken
Cockerel = young male chicken
Hen = female chicken over 1 year of age
Rooster = male chicken over 1 year of age

*edited to change autocorrect/typo. Hopefully that was the only one
Thank you so much! Grateful for the help!
 

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