cochin/polish chicks not growing????? help!!!!!!

[mustafa]

hello everybody i have abt 20 cochins and 15 polish, this is the first time i bought chicks day old,for the first 2 months i have kept them in a very small brooder as i couldnt leave them in the garden because of the predators, then a big cage for another 2 months... and for a month the chicks are now free range in an acre of grass all day long, they are 5 months old now, the cochins are an inch bigger than my bantams a bit overweight but very very active/ eating all the time and the polish are also half of adults... is this normal??? will they grow to be full size and huge like cochins are or because i kept them in a tight place when they were young they will never grow now....
awaiting replies eagerly... a hobbyist from Pakistan

 

[mustafa]

hello everybody i have abt 20 cochins and 15 polish, this is the first time i bought chicks day old,for the first 2 months i have kept them in a very small brooder as i couldnt leave them in the garden because of the predators, then a big cage for another 2 months... and for a month the chicks are now free range in an acre of grass all day long, they are 5 months old now, the cochins are an inch bigger than my bantams a bit overweight but very very active/ eating all the time and the polish are also half of adults... is this normal??? will they grow to be full size and huge like cochins are or because i kept them in a tight place when they were young they will never grow now....
awaiting replies eagerly... a hobbyist from Pakistan

the bantams are adults year old

 

[mustafa]

the bantams are adults year old

just for idea of their size..

 

[mustafa]

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[khoe]

I wish I could help, but my chicks aren't that old yet. I'm sure they will keep growing.

 

[timechicken]

I know that there are both large and Bantam breeds of Polish; is it possible your Polish are from a breeder who was going for a small Bantam? I haven't heard of chickens being a species that can have their size affected by space the way fish can, though I'm not an expert.