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I thought female tail feathers are uniform in length, shape and evenness. Male feathers tend to be narrower, less uniform and often with a "point" on the end of feather. Fluffiness may work on close feathered hens, but all chicks tend to be a mix of down (fluffy) and new feather.

Typically you can wing or vent sex day old or young chicks. Have you tried either methods? Wing sexing is easy...hold chick and carefully extend wing looking along the back edge of wing at feather development. Males feathers will be uniform in length while females will have an alternating...