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I was just wondering what the differences are between bantam and standard size chicks. Do they develop at different rates? Are the standards larger as chicks? I have 6 Welsummer chicks that I got from TSC (3 male, 3 female), however at 4 weeks old, they're flying. One can fly up on top of the...

Oh no. Those definitely won't give me the eggs I'm looking for. I was hoping they'd be isas like the guy said so that since they were red, I'd have all girls. I guess I'll keep them a couple more months just to be sure, but not get my hopes up too high.

I have 5 chickens that I purchased straight run of "ISAs". The man I got them from said the roosters have longer neck feathers, so he thought I might have 2 roosters in the 5 he gave me. I think I might have 4 roosters though since 4 of them have really long tails that stick up and arch a bit, 1...