Chick wing question

[MGG]

Hi. I came across the photos of my Speckled Sussex chick. She was always a little off. We ordered her and 1 BLRW chick and 1 Partridge Cochin from Meyer Hatchery around the end of August. She grew way slower than her sisters and she ate just as much as they did. I never could figure it out. She passed away around Christmas. It wasn't from her strange wing thing though, a bully pecked her to death because she never really integrated well. She never got big and looked that way until she passed. We called the hatchery and they said failure to thrive, but just wondered if anyone here has seen it before. I'm not sure if I put this in the right place, sorry.

 

[MGG]

Here she is

 

[MGG]

Bumping. This isn't urgent, just wondered is all

 

[rosemarythyme]

Yeah can't say I've seen that before. "Failure to thrive" is just a general sort of term that means there's just something wrong with a chick that's causing it to not develop properly. Nothing that you did wrong, just there's something maybe internally or genetically wrong with it.

The fact that other birds killed it can mean they sensed there was something off about it as well, and didn't want it in the flock.

 

[MGG]

Thanks for your response. That's kinda what I guessed, but just wondered if anyone here had seen it