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Update. All the chicks are now 5 weeks old. 10 are still sparsely fluffed with only the barest wing and shoulder feathers. Ultra slow feathering! But the bare bottom is also on one that's fully feathered so they seem to be unrelated (slow feathering and bare bottom). I spoke to the breeder and...

Thank you for your thoughts, everyone. I agree about the slow feathering and sparse fluff, but I don't think it's diet related, as 2 of the chicks have feathered almost fully. One of the fully feathered chicks has a bare bottom just like the others, so it seems the two are unconnected (sparse...

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Greetings, fellow chick raisers... I've got a small question regarding some light sussex chicks I hatched at home from bought eggs. I got about a 50% hatch, half in the incubator and half under a hen (both with the same net result). Of the 12 that hatched, 4 or 5 otherwise healthy chicks...