Runt of litter chick?

[Jenbirdee]

hello and welcome. oh they are so cute!!

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello and welcome to BYC!

Congrats on your new chicks! Aww...she is adorable! ❤ She could be a bantam which is a small breed or she's just slow to grow. Most runts eventually catch up, or not. They can still live perfectly normal lives.

Make yourself at home here and welcome to our community!

 

[muddy75]

Welcome to BYC!

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. To me it looks as if that chick has 'failure to thrive'. It can be stress related or congenital. Sometimes they eventually start growing. Other times they stall and fade away.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Welcome to BYC!
Out of my first flock i had a little EE who was half the size of her siblings. She never layed a egg. And is living a good life at a friends. Where they are able to keep her with chickens of her own size.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Hello folks. Purchased 9 baby chicks from feed store. 2 different breeds. All 9 were same size when we brought home. After a few weeks we noticed one just not growing like the others. Even the ones of the same breed. Here we are 2 months later and little "tweety", we caller, is still WAY smaller. Heres a picture. Thoughts?

in my experience, when this happens with me at birds, they die because meat birds are very inbred and don't have as high standards as other breeds. a breeder will choose, say, a Plymouth, for it's health and the quality of it's barring and comb type. However, meat birds are selected for being fat.

with an egg laying bird like that, it is more likely just bantam. if they have bantam genes somewhere, then chickens will just be smaller.