When I had purchased all the equipment for my chicks, I had purchased the feed that was strongly recommended by the salesman, Purina Start & Grow (medicated). However, I've since been doing some research and have discovered that the recommended protein ration for growing chicks should be around...
My barred rock chick is getting quite a few wing feathers in, but they are much more thin and scraggly than the wing feathers coming in on my other chicks of the same age. When she spreads her wings, they look borderline skeletal. There's a lot of the quill part showing and not very much...
I brought home my first chicks yesterday, one buff orpington and one barred rock chick. While both chicks have the teeny-tiny beginnings of a comb, I noticed the barred rock chick has a more prominent one. Is this common to the breed or an extremely early sign I got a rooster?