She is unique, 'tis true. She was about 1/2 the size of all the other chicks she hatched with and after about 3 days, we realized she was walking over the feeder, looking at the other chicks, but never taking a bite. The tan feed in the aluminum feeder probably was invisible to her. At first, we thought she might be blind.
We mashed up some egg and put it in a blue bowl, then sat her in it and tapped the egg with our fingers. Oh, my, she started pecking and singing! She sang and ate and sang and ate. We changed the feeder to a red feeder and the contrast between the red and the feed made the difference. She was fine from there on out.
She can't pick up a grain of anything, or catch a bug because she can't aim. She must have a pile of something to eat from or out of our hands. She knows our hands hold good stuff.
You can read Tiny's story from this post on this older thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/296014/new-hatchlings-tiny-is-eating-yippeeee#post_3620486
This black chick in the center was Tiny as a baby of 3 days old--you can see how little she was, hence her name:
ETA: Oh, dear, poor Tiny. The entire flock, or so I thought, was involved in eating cornbread I threw into the pen when I shooed Gideon and Dru into the coop to chow down before the Evil Big Women came in and hogged the feeders at roost time. They went in and as I was walking toward the gate, I heard a huge commotion inside, lots of distressed yelling. I stuck my head in the pop door (which is about my waist level on that slope), thinking a hen is inside and beating up on Gideon or Dru, and what do I see? Gideon expertly mating Tiny! She is yelling to beat the band but it's happening whether she likes it or not. When she gets free, she runs screaming from the coop, her feathers all askew.
He isn't fertile yet at just 13 weeks old, but he sure knows what to to! Again, poor Tiny! She has a new admirer whether she wants one or not.
