ella2025
Songster
Here are :
red, a rir and the smallest of the group. Her featering has always been extremely slow for some reason. Even at 9 weeks and 3 days she still looks like she should be 5 weeks old. Still barely any tail and patchy looking.
Olive, an olive egger labeled as a black sex link.
Amber, an amberlinks. She is the biggest and plumpest of the 4.
And Ebony, a black sex link.
All 4 chicks are female and purchased at tractor supply. They were about a week old by the time of purchase and I estimated their birthday to be June 18, which makes them 9 weeks old. As you might have noticed in the photos, they are very small. I have tiny hands too.I never weighed any of the chicks I've raised, but they just feel a heck of a lot smaller than the 2 batches of chicks I raised in April. All my chicks were raised on nutrena naturewise chick starter. The only difference I can think of is these 4 chicks were fully living outside by 3 weeks old because there was good warm weather. The April chicks had to stay inside until 8-10 weeks old because I was stupid and started building the coop way too late. Here are some of the April chicks in comparison:
Bippy the barred rock at approximately 10 weeks (I tried to get a photo with my hand for comparison purposes. She was plump.)
Carlos the silkie bantam rooster at 8 weeks (about the same size as Red from what I can see)
Is there something wrong with my chicks? Are they just much skinnier and tinier because they had more room to move at a younger age or is something horribly wrong?
red, a rir and the smallest of the group. Her featering has always been extremely slow for some reason. Even at 9 weeks and 3 days she still looks like she should be 5 weeks old. Still barely any tail and patchy looking.
Olive, an olive egger labeled as a black sex link.
Amber, an amberlinks. She is the biggest and plumpest of the 4.
And Ebony, a black sex link.
All 4 chicks are female and purchased at tractor supply. They were about a week old by the time of purchase and I estimated their birthday to be June 18, which makes them 9 weeks old. As you might have noticed in the photos, they are very small. I have tiny hands too.I never weighed any of the chicks I've raised, but they just feel a heck of a lot smaller than the 2 batches of chicks I raised in April. All my chicks were raised on nutrena naturewise chick starter. The only difference I can think of is these 4 chicks were fully living outside by 3 weeks old because there was good warm weather. The April chicks had to stay inside until 8-10 weeks old because I was stupid and started building the coop way too late. Here are some of the April chicks in comparison:
Bippy the barred rock at approximately 10 weeks (I tried to get a photo with my hand for comparison purposes. She was plump.)
Carlos the silkie bantam rooster at 8 weeks (about the same size as Red from what I can see)
Is there something wrong with my chicks? Are they just much skinnier and tinier because they had more room to move at a younger age or is something horribly wrong?
