What sex are my Cream Legbar chicks? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Im also new to the breed, I hatched two but unfortunately about 3 days after hatch one of them got a bad head injury. It’s doing great and almost healed but the two are so much different in color. One is very dark grey and the other with the head injury is light grey. I thought cream legbars were cream/brown colored
 

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I’m having trouble sexing some of the Cream Legbars I’ve hatched yesterday…. Not sure if they’ll change more in the next 12hrs? They hatched between 6pm last night and 4am this morning! Looking at wing feathers, two out of three of the really light ones have alternating short and long wing feathers, however they have no dot on their forehead or lines, so thinking pullet? And the really dark one has no chipmunk lines so I’m not sure what to think! 🤔 I’m a bit baffled! They’re all definitely Pure Cream Legbars too as the cockerel was closed in his pen with the ladies for a few days before the eggs were collected!

Any help would be much appreciated!
I have 5 chicks just hatched this last weekend. I got from a fella who said they were all cream legbar (all eggs were identical pale green). As you can see they don't all look like CLB chicks. I got back to him & he said he's only got the one roo which is a CLB roo, but some of the eggs could have come from a White Leghorn/CLB hen which also lays pale green eggs.
I'm as confused as you are 🤔
 

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I’m having trouble sexing some of the Cream Legbars I’ve hatched yesterday…. Not sure if they’ll change more in the next 12hrs? They hatched between 6pm last night and 4am this morning! Looking at wing feathers, two out of three of the really light ones have alternating short and long wing feathers, however they have no dot on their forehead or lines, so thinking pullet? And the really dark one has no chipmunk lines so I’m not sure what to think! 🤔 I’m a bit baffled! They’re all definitely Pure Cream Legbars too as the cockerel was closed in his pen with the ladies for a few days before the eggs were collected!

Any help would be much appreciated!
I hatched a male cream legbar about 36 hours ago, this photo was taken at the 24 hour mark. A female has a more defined dark stripe on the back than my little guy. Also notice the bright yellow spot on the back of his head. Once their feathers are dry the color won't really change anymore.
I'm honestly not entirely sure you have any Legbars there. The dark ones definitely aren't. The other attached photo shows a male and female Crested Cream Legbar, the female is on the left. Congrats anyways! They certainly are precious!
 

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I have 5 chicks just hatched this last weekend. I got from a fella who said they were all cream legbar (all eggs were identical pale green). As you can see they don't all look like CLB chicks. I got back to him & he said he's only got the one roo which is a CLB roo, but some of the eggs could have come from a White Leghorn/CLB hen which also lays pale green eggs.
I'm as confused as you are 🤔
The two pale ones look exactly like mine did! I’ll pop a photo of what they look like now on!
 

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