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  1. Kwoka

    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    She’s about the size of a small bantam now, and thriving. She’s the absolute sweetest little bird. My family recently went on holiday and my MIL took care of the birds, she said Mini was just as sweet with her as she is with us. Loves being held and carried. Her sisters have started laying, so...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    She’s doing well! Fully feathered out with two adorable cheek tufts, and her voice is finally starting to change! I’m going to miss her little squeaks. She’s even getting some red color to her face, as she’s 17 weeks now
  3. Kwoka

    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    Quick little 16-week Mini-Mini update- she’s thriving, and really looking like a real chicken! She even has some copper streaks on her neck feathers. She’s the most precious thing, follows us around, knows her name, and isn’t scared of people. I can find her just about anywhere because she’s the...
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    Rooster missing tail feathers

    He’s almost definitely molting. My Marans rooster just lost both of his sickle feathers and suddenly started looking busted as heck this week, poor boy. The run is full of his feathers. Some just molt earlier than the others, probably has something to do with day length getting shorter and night...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    Mini-Mini update with pics: she’s a couple days shy of 13 weeks here. She is the “Queen of the Food Bowl” without fail every day at breakfast she is the first one to the food, both feet in and no one questions it lol. She’s almost two weeks older than the other chicks in the pics
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    She’s doing well! I’ll try to grab some pictures of her tomorrow when she’s free ranging. I finally started letting the group out of their run to free range the whole yard. I was a little worried at first. She’s the smallest chick I’ve ever let out to free range without a broody to watch over...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    One more pic today - Mini-Mini is 10 weeks, and the cockerel behind her is only 8 😂 she just looks so darn scruffy, nothing I can do about that. Whatever condition she has, it is affecting her feather growth rate/quality.
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    It really blows my mind how tiny she is at 10 weeks. I have been searching far and wide for an explanation and I just can’t find it. There exists documented dwarfism in chickens, but I couldn’t find cases to this degree. Humans, dogs, and I’m sure other animals can be born with pituitary...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    Mini-Mini update at 10 weeks: still strong and small as ever, possibly the fastest chick in the grow out pen. She sleeps on the roost and will fly out of my hand while I’m standing! Here she is with her “sister” Bluey, same age.
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    I snapped a couple pics before closing the coop for the night. She’s just pretty scruffy compared to a normal chick - she hasn’t been molting the chick down and those very first real feathers like a normal 8 week old chick would. Her face also seems a little ”off” imo like eye proportion isn’t...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    Well, she’s Araucana/Olive Egger mix, so she’ll maybe lay a mint-green egg? If she even sexually matures at all 😬 because at this rate…idk if her body will even have space to make eggs? Maybe she will grow to the size of say, a quail (or even a button quail) and THEN start laying tiny quail-size...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    I’m going to use this thread for documenting the growth/status of this baffling mini-chicken. Mini-Mini is now 8 weeks old (I checked her exact hatch date and wow…can’t believe it) She is maybe the size of a 1 week old, but going strong. She spends all day outside in the run doing chicken...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    The thing is, they have been wormed, they get vitamins or an acidifier in their water twice a week, medicated chick starter, high-protein snacks once in a while (scrambled eggs or ground beef), they have access to chick grit and dust bathing areas, so idk if it’s nutritional? I see her eating...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    So this Mini-Mini is still kicking! Feathering out slowly, but foraging and keeping up with her sisters. I’m just baffled by how tiny she is staying. They’re almost 5 weeks here. Maybe this is how tiny breeds like the KikiRiki and Serama started…just a random mutation inhibiting growth?
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Awesome, looking forward to watching him grow out! If he’s decent quality, I’ll keep him for my olive egger and back-cross project flock.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Hi, I’m new to Marans, and I’m not breeding to SOP or anything, just want dark eggs and nice meat from friendly birds - I ordered hatching eggs from a breeder with a mixed flock (BCM, blue, birchen, wheaten) and from those eggs I got this cockerel: I’m just wondering what this bird might...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    So, all my birds are on day 3 of flimabend (fenbendazole) for internal parasite treatment, and I’m seeing a huge improvement with my little mini-chick. She’s eating like crazy, and actually went to bed with a full crop, which she wasn’t doing before. I think she picked up some nasty worms or...
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    Stunted/dwarf/runt chick?

    So I have a bunch of 3.5 week old chicks hatched and being raised by a broody hen. One of the chicks, a Rumpless araucana x Sapphire Olive Egger, is still the size of a day old chick. She’s kind of a sleepy chick that stays close to mom, but is otherwise still eating and drinking, but not much...
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    1 day old chick legs turned out and bone showing. Please help!!

    I’m sorry your poor chick is going through this, but that’s definitely not going to heal. That’s exposed bone on both sides for sure. Some just aren’t meant to be in this world. I’ve euthanized chicks using very sharp scissors, just a quick snip through the back of the neck and it’s over. It...
  20. Kwoka

    January 2024 hatch-a-long

    Some of the older pullet chicks are teaching a group of new babies how to eat and drink. My son chose his favorite chicks to keep in his room, mostly splash and chipmunk babies. Dang it I really don’t like having chicks in the house, but he loves them. lol I’m vacuuming and dusting constantly...
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