Dwarfism and Chickens... Do they mix?

[crait]

Hi!
My baby hen, Fran, is a dark cornish.
From what I've found, they grow to be very muscular and meaty, however, my hen has not become that yet.
She's about 5 months old and I can completely cup her into my hands.
Url, who's a Blue Wyandotte, is younger than her and is about the size of my big head.
I've tried researching it and I've found that there is a possibility of dwarfism in chickens but what are the chances that she's a dwarf?
Is it too early to tell?
Thanks everyone!

 

[patandchickens]

You're quite certain she's large-fowl Cornish, not bantam Cornish?

Pat

 

[crait]

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Hmmmm.
It's possible.
I got her from a litter of different breeds of chicks from this tractor store by my house.
Most of the people who buy from there buy to eat the chickens so I was thinking she was going to be a meat bird. Would people eat bantams?

 

[patandchickens]

Honestly the likeliest thing may be that the store got in a "mixed lot", like hatchery leftovers, and it happened to include one or more bantams. (Was she particularly small as a chick, and do you remember if any of the others there were particularly small?)

If not that, then simply being a 'runt' seems a lot more likely to me than being an actual, otherwise-sound genetic dwarf.

Good luck, she sounds cute,

Pat

 

[crait]

She is really cute!

And thanks a lot!
She was regular size, same size as all the other baby chicks


And I just realized that there was another post about the exact same thing as me.
Very, very weird.