HELP! are my chicks to small? *pictures*

[chillmiller]

so my chicks from mcmurry got here on the 26th of october , and they looked great
26 chickens st runs ... 13 black australops and 12 EE's oh and mystery chick

soooooooooooooo anywho fast forward to today my chicks are a tad over 3 weeks old

and at looking at everyone else chicks mine look all small and

runty like i did something wrong

i admit for the first 3 days i fed them ground cracked corn with quick chick mixed in and half a tea spoon of quick chick per gallon of water but they look runty


i grabed my camera and a one of the EE's ( whom loved to stand still and model my ruler for me)

but from the top she's about 6 inches long from beak to tail feathers and almost 3 inches from shoulder to shoulder

this lat picture is ore to show feathering and a black australop


so are they to small ?

 

[chillmiller]

looking at other post in here man i think i doomed my little chickys

there al healthy and runnin around but runty do you think the 3 days of ground corn did this

 

[Jferlisi]

No mine are almost 3 weeks and they are about the same size. Yours look fine to me.

 

[sonew123]

I dont think you doomed them they look normal I just wouldn't feed cracked corn as their main meal-those are treats

 

[chillmiller]

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oh my ok ya i know i had layer pellets and cracked corn on hand when they came later that day i got crumbles but i use an old bird feeder so they where still eating the milled corn for the first 3 days

i feel so much better because im looking at other post on here and there 2-4 week olds look like monsters... mine look like quail

 

[sonew123]

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oh my ok ya i know i had layer pellets and cracked corn on hand when they came later that day i got crumbles but i use an old bird feeder so they where still eating the milled corn for the first 3 days

i feel so much better because im looking at other post on here and there 2-4 week olds look like monsters... mine look like quail

you look good

just keep them away from corn as they are too young for that without grit and such-crumbles is good

 

[chillmiller]

phew i can sleep easy tonight now

 

[pgpoultry]

If they are small, and they don't look too bad to me, they will catch up pretty fast on the right food.
I seem to have a runt in every hatch (even though they are all fed the same, often this is a cockerel) and these little fellows catch up and outstrip the others by about 8 weeks.
So sleep easy.

 

[HorizonSon]

Mine were hatched on the 1st of November (or day before) and mine look about that size(ish). I have smaller ones with smaller wings, smaller ones with bigger wings, bigger ones with smaller wings and bigger ones with bigger wings, LOLz, no joke. There are 24 chicks in all; and all but maybe one are of the same breed. Go figure.

 

[abhaya]

they look ok to me just feed crumbles as with no grit they cant digest other stuff very well