Feather from 5-week-old

[Quailberries]

This might be a really stupid question, but here we go...

We just brought our chicks out for their first night in the coop, and we checked this morning and it looks like things had been going great!... Except then I found a small feather of our 5 week GLW hidden in the shavings.

The feather is very tiny... maybe half the size of my pinky(?) There's only one. Concern or not a concern? Is this normal for a juvenile? There's probably a really easy answer to this that I just don't know...

(It is an actual feather btw, not just down )

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Chicks go through multiple molts as they grow, otherwise they would grow out of their feathers, so nothing to worry about. I have a suspicion that chicks eat a lot of them because I don't find many either.

 

[chickens really]

Don't worry at all...