- Jul 15, 2009
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I bought several one-day-old Polish chicks about a week and a half ago. I was under the impression that they were all standard-sized, but could have been mistaken. Most of them are doing very well. They're growing quickly and already have quite a few real feathers.
Two of them are undersized and refuse to catch up:
One of them has chronic paste butt, and his poor butt is bare. None of the other chicks has this problem. I've been mixing yogurt and sand into his chick starter, and ACV in his water, for three days. I wipe his butt 2-3 times a day. It shows no signs of clearing up.
The other one just seems like an underachiever. He was looking quite bedraggled when the other chicks got bigger and started trampling him. Now that I have him in a separate brooder with Mr. Paste Butt, he seems to be doing much better. He just refuses to grow.
They are developing wing feathers just as fast as the other chicks, but their wings look proportionately larger.
Anyway, when will I know for sure whether I got a couple of bantam chicks? It's no big deal if they are, I just want to know whether there's something wrong with them. I can post a picture tomorrow comparing the two sizes if that would help.
Two of them are undersized and refuse to catch up:
One of them has chronic paste butt, and his poor butt is bare. None of the other chicks has this problem. I've been mixing yogurt and sand into his chick starter, and ACV in his water, for three days. I wipe his butt 2-3 times a day. It shows no signs of clearing up.
The other one just seems like an underachiever. He was looking quite bedraggled when the other chicks got bigger and started trampling him. Now that I have him in a separate brooder with Mr. Paste Butt, he seems to be doing much better. He just refuses to grow.
They are developing wing feathers just as fast as the other chicks, but their wings look proportionately larger.
Anyway, when will I know for sure whether I got a couple of bantam chicks? It's no big deal if they are, I just want to know whether there's something wrong with them. I can post a picture tomorrow comparing the two sizes if that would help.