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Thanks for your thoughts. Right now they are still with the cousins, but soon they will be added to the layer flock and will learn to hunt food like the rest.

The thread is not dead. The dwarves are still alive, but they are young. Some of the other small birds in this year's batches have grown, but the three dwarves look just like a cornish cross and are tiny (compared to their cousins). I will continue to report here as the finding some in.

Thanks for the input. Keeping them alive is key. Right now they look like normal five week old heritage breeds that look like the cross. There brother and sisters look like CX at 5 weeks. I am hoping whatever caused this (assumed dwarf Gene) helps them survive to breed. Time will tell on...

Somehow I ended up (volunteered to) raising CornishX for a friend of mine. She got them from McMurray, where I normally get mine from Meyers (producer direct). My chickens are all almost done for the year, but that is irrelevant. Her set of 51 birds have three dwarfs. One cockerel and two...