EE Pullet or roo?

Look on his/her back. If it is a cockeral, you will see pointy feathers instead of more blunt hen-like feathers. These are called sickle feathers. They can look shiny and all cocks have them. You can look them up online to get a better idea of what they look like.
 
Forgot to mention, Cockeral's tail feathers will be droopy and shiny. We have hatched out two batches of chicks since we got our chickens in March of 2016 and we can always tell by the tail and sickle.
 
Look on his/her back. If it is a cockeral, you will see pointy feathers instead of more blunt hen-like feathers. These are called sickle feathers. They can look shiny and all cocks have them. You can look them up online to get a better idea of what they look like.
6 weeks is too young for male specific feathering to be present. Those feathers don't begin to develop until about 10 weeks.
 
This may be silly, but do roosters have different personalities than pullets or is it just solely based on the bird itself? She/He is very very sweet and as you can see in the picture she/he will just come sit on my lap and let me pet her. I have to pick her up and put her back in the coop or else she would never leave..... I think she's part cat!
 

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