Can anyone help identify this pullet? She was my Meyer meal maker and is about 5 weeks old. She is standing on the food dish. I'd say she looks more red/orange than the photo portrays.
Below is a slightly older photo of her:
And as a new baby chick:
Thanks!
So, little baby girl is still hanging in there at almost 3 weeks old, and she is growing, but growing and feathering much less quickly than all of the other chicks. They are not picking on her at least. I saw today that she finally lost one of her talons on that foot, and I think she seems to...
Here we go... they are about a month old mix of blue, black, and black copper marans according to the breeder:
Chick 1 in front, chick 2 in back
Chick 1:
Chick 2:
The individual pics were taken a couple days earlier than the group pic. Chick 2's comb is definitely quite pink and...
I'm really hoping my month old chick in the middle is a pullet I think I know the answer as to the other two (they look almost identical except one has some copper coming in on its wings)
I did alert the hatchery. They seemed concerned... hopefully t won't happen again. She is still hanging in there. Still lower energy and smaller than the others, but I think she is growing. She hasn't lost the talons yet so hopefully she can keep them! You can see them a bit on her right foot...
Thank you! I did have nutri drench on hand, and she's gotten a bit of that each day. I will try the mashed egg too -- she's eating but definitely not as much as the others :/
Sadly, somehow there was a piece of twine in the shipping box with our hatchery chicks, and two of them each got one leg bound up in it. One of the chicks seems to be fully recovered now, and the other one is just OK. She does eat and run around a little, but definitely not as much as the...