Thank you for this! This chick is gonna take a few years off my life before her she grows up, lol.
Frizzle or just wonky, it doesn't matter to me as long as he or she continues to do well.
Thank you! They're definitely adorable. I'm not going to be able to go into Rural King now that I've decided I'm done buying chicks for this year! TSC stops selling them this time of year, but the RK opened in the spring and they sell them year round, lol.
Lol yeah if I just glance into the brooder, I can't tell the cochin and the egger apart.
It seems like it. Now I hope it's just a calmer bird and not truly lethargic or ill.
I just looked, and Hoover's Hatchery does sell frizzle cochin bantams, so it definitely could be what's going on here.
I feel like I know what I need to know, and then my chicks remind me that I don't. 😵💫
I did look up frizzle bantam cochins, and they do look very much like this chick, so maybe that's all this is. I swear I haven't worried this much about living things since my children were babies! Lol. I'm a helicopter chicken parent!
I actually did wonder that. I can't seen to capture them on camera, but it's got these random little "hairs" that stick out further than the rest of its feathers.
Why do this chick's wings flare out like this? Is it just how its feathers are growing?
I've attached a few pictures, including one of its wing spread out.
It's worth noting that this chick has had me concerned since I got them home. It seems to sleep more than the others. It does eat and...