A tale of two chicks

[gimmie birdies]

Here is my tale, I saw a pic of this chick, (they were using a diff younger pic) on line for sale, they said said they had a blue orpington roo chick 4 weeks old they wanted to re-home. I said I would take it and that was fine, but when they came to drop off, it was in a small box, and it was very heavy, heavier than a 9 week old LO I have. I am guessing it must be a blue Jersy giant, or, a grey meat bird. What do you guys think? They bought it at a feed store. The bird also didn't have alot of feathers, I think they had it under a heat lamp too long. I just took both these pics.

Below is a 3 week old barnyard mix chick to compare. Yes that is about the size diff.

 

[Doodleboy1234]

Could you take the pics of them next to a soda can or something for a size referrance?

 

[Rainwing]

looks like the blue chickens that i got from Runnings. they are marked as "sapphire gems" but do not have the dark collar like a sapphire gem, neither are they actually sex-linked like a sapphire gem. every chick was marked on the head in green and the employee told me it doesn't mean anything... i thought.. hmm... maybe they could be male... but usually they sell only pullets with a sex-link breed such as a sapphire gem. there's no way they'd try to sell an entire tub of males.
n they were all males. lol.
they look more like sapphire splash than sapphire gems. yours have a few dark feathers scattered as do mine. sorry for the bad pics. they have green legs too. my sapphire splash roos are currently the biggest breed in the flock, but my black sexlink hen Goliath is an exception and trumps all of them when it comes to size.

 

[gimmie birdies]

This body is like a meat bird.

 

[Rainwing]

This body is like a meat bird.

mine kinda feel stocky with thick legs but nowhere near as large as my broilers. idk what it could be. i'm just saying i got similar birds this year.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Here is the 4 week old chick with a coffee mug and a 2 week old LO

 

[gimmie birdies]

 

[Doodleboy1234]

I have 7 week old bsl, glws, and rainbow Dixies and the rainbow dixies are twice the size as the other 2 breeds

 

[gimmie birdies]

I gave this 5 week chick at night to a hen who was not broody, was one year old, but had a hurt wing, and she was sleeping in a nest box instead of roosting. She is very nice to him, and he walks this close to her always.