Dwarfism?long-term effects?

[Chickassan]

Little birds are the exact same as big birds, im not talking bantams or dwarfs just genetically small.
Ive got several of the same breed but from different sources that range from what id consider a large fowl to not a large fowl.
They're all the same though, function perfectly do just fine with the roosters.
Little ones tend to have only slightly smaller chicks but thats due to smaller eggs.
The chicks grow to their genetic disposition.
Biggest male i have came from a tiny hen, tiny egg, comically small chick.
So your girl will be fine.

 

[sekeyslaks]

Little birds are the exact same as big birds, im not talking bantams or dwarfs just genetically small.
Ive got several of the same breed but from different sources that range from what id consider a large fowl to not a large fowl.
They're all the same though, function perfectly do just fine with the roosters.
Little ones tend to have only slightly smaller chicks but thats due to smaller eggs.
The chicks grow to their genetic disposition.
Biggest male i have came from a tiny hen, tiny egg, comically small chick.
So your girl will be fine.

That’s awesome to hear! Thanks!

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Mine had access to plenty of food and everything they need. So I just thought that since they were Easter eggers they could of been mixed with a smaller bird

 

[Amer]

It might have been sort-of true then, if they didn't know how to make good chicken food. Chickens that forage for their own food will find a lot less in the winter than the summer, which could result in several months of underfeeding for the ones that were trying to grow up in winter.

I know that underfeeding can stunt a chicken's growth.
People do it deliberately if they have Cornish Cross meat chickens that they want to breed from, or keep as pets. The stunted growth lets those birds live longer than if they are fed free choice and get really large.

We also see pictures of stunted chickens on here sometimes, from people that get chickens but do not know what a chicken needs to eat. They come here to ask "why aren't my chickens growing?" After they buy proper chicken food, the chickens grow better, but some never do catch up in size.

For the original poster's chicken, I think she will probably be fine, without any long-term health effects. She probably just has the genes to be slightly smaller than some of the other chickens. Some chickens can be over 10 pounds at maturity, but some others only weigh about 4 pounds at maturity and are not considered dwarfs (example: Hamburgs.) Bantams can weigh under 2 pounds, and all those sizes can be perfectly healthy and live long lives.

Yes

One of my Snovid pullets is 2/3 the size of her sisters, has a tail that looks like a rudder steering "hard right" and honks like a goose instead of normal chicken noises. The incubation for that hatch was interrupted by the power outage from the February freeze two weeks along. Even though I covered the incubator with towels for insulation, the temps got down into the upper 50's and low 60's, and the power stayed on enough to get up to temp only a few times over the 5 days of rolling blackouts.

16 out of 22 hatched on day 23, IIRC, and none that hatched had any health problems. Only this one has any weirdness to her, and I can't say for sure it was from the chilly portion of the incubation or because of some other defect in her programming. She's a cuddle bug, though.

Wry tail (tail going to one side) is caused by genetics, so that could be the cause, but who knows if it could also be caused by incubation. I've never heard of honking being caused by genetics, that might be incubation.

Mine had access to plenty of food and everything they need. So I just thought that since they were Easter eggers they could of been mixed with a smaller bird

Yeah, that's probably it.

 

[Coops Dad]

Whatever the cause, she's very active and is one of my far-rangers; she routinely ends up hundreds of yards from the coop and sometimes flies out of the back pasture and into the front 10 acres.

Being small hasn't hurt her at all.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's the girl I was talking about, she hasn't really grown. She's grown fluffy, but not large.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Whatever the cause, she's very active and is one of my far-rangers; she routinely ends up hundreds of yards from the coop and sometimes flies out of the back pasture and into the front 10 acres.

Being small hasn't hurt her at all.

My smaller birds are very flighty. My bird use to not like me now she waits for me at the door and flies up onto the nesting box to greet me.

 

[Coops Dad]

My smaller birds are very flighty. My bird use to not like me now she waits for me at the door and flies up onto the nesting box to greet me.

Mine runs back and forth in front of my feet but darts away if I lean down to pick her up. If I stop near something she can jump onto, she will get up then allow me to pick her up. After I put her down (post neck scratches and under wing scratches) she'll allow me to pick her up whenever/wherever for the duration of my being out in the pasture. If I go inside the house and come back out after a few minutes, or if I go into the workshop and come back out a few minutes later, the whole thing starts over where she WANTS attention but doesn't want to be picked up from the ground.

 

[nicalandia]

Looks like a Runt and not a dwarf, the shank lenghth is proportional to her size

 

[ColtHandorf]

Looks like a Runt and not a dwarf, the shank lenghth is proportional to her size

I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I posted a photo of that dwarf Cuckoo Marans. I actually remember her being listed on eggbid.com back when that was a thing. Her auction got really high.