What color are my mixed chicks?

Here is an updated picture, they are 1 week old today, and have been given names. All of them have sprouted tail feathers too.
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I have closeups of the chicks, of anyone here can tell gender or color of the chicks at this point please speak up.

Gender: I don't see any colors that would be gender-specific from that set of parents, and they're way too young for me personally to tell by comb & wattles or other traits. Other people may notice things I miss.

Color: first one mostly black, other two with brown/black patterns. I cannot tell what the final pattern will look like, because plenty of chicks have patterning when little that changes when they get older. Could be black tailed red like a Buckeye, could be laced or pencilled or something else yet.
 
Gender: I don't see any colors that would be gender-specific from that set of parents, and they're way too young for me personally to tell by comb & wattles or other traits. Other people may notice things I miss.

Color: first one mostly black, other two with brown/black patterns. I cannot tell what the final pattern will look like, because plenty of chicks have patterning when little that changes when they get older. Could be black tailed red like a Buckeye, could be laced or pencilled or something else yet.

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I have reason to believe that Joe is a Boy. I was looking at them and making sure they are all healthy, and I compared Joe and Sarah side by side, and Joe is considerably larger than Sarah, it could be age difference as Sarah is 1 day younger, but this is exactly what I saw with my pair of Jersey Giants. (where the male was considerably bigger than the female)
 
I am sorry for not posting every week like I said I would. All of the chicks and the mother are still alive and healthy, and the three chicks are about 4 weeks old. I am going to try and describe them as best I can and later on I will post pictures of them. The black chick has all black feathers, and the 2 other ones have what looks like a speckled sussex pattern, but instead of black, white, and brown they have whit light tan and tan feathers.
 

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