Hello fellow BYC's! I bought chicks from TSC (last time ever I did this) and I did avoid the meaty bin as I wanted layers. Now, after about a week my 2 yellow ones with very light chipmunk like stripes on their backs are nearly double the size of the other ones. I did get 1 EE also and they are only slightly taller than him and I don't know if I ended up with Bantams that I didn't want and the yellow ones are just Buff orphingtons or something like that, OR did I get all standards and ended up with 2 meaties? I do not yet have a picture of them but maybe one of you has? Thank you so much!
My meaties were all yellow, no chipmunk stripes. How big are their legs? If some of your chicks are leghorns are breeds like that they are not bantams, but are quite a bit smaller than mose standards so they might make heavier breeds look big in comparison.
cx meaties don't have chipmunk stripes. However some of the "red broiler" "brown broiler" "Freedom Ranger" types do. If they really are that much bigger than your others, you probably wound up with some of those.
So I managed to get some pictures of those guys at noon. They are starting to feather out in a reddish brown. I also took a picture of the giant with the mini. His legs are big but not as big as the pictures from the lady that posted here ealier with the same problem.
I think your bigger ones are just older. There is also a wide variety of growth rates, even within the same breed. They're not cornish cross
Mine are 3 weeks old also purchased at TSC I was looking at your pictures it almost looks like you have Buff Orpingtons I could be wrong but thats what My buff orpingtons from my own hens look like when they are 2 weeks - 3 weeks old. The white ones Cornish x ? I believe
yours look like my ameraucana's from TSC (i'm also from SW mich, so yours are from the same place as mine - townline hatchery in zeeland) i've got the gamut of colors in my ameraucanas- 6 all together. 2 were yellowish, and 4 were the cute little chipmunky looking dudes (the striped eyes) the 2 yellowish ones are still mostly yellow with spashes of brown (they look exactly like the one you have pictured - but older - and the legs are greenish) (they're all around 4-5 weeks now), and the chipmunks have turned into 2 that look a lot like silver ameraucanas and 2 are a partridge-type pattern. they said they were ameraucanas, but i think they only have ameraucana in them. on a side note, all my black australorps are pretty black australorpy
I will go ahead and take some more pictures this weekend. They are slowly feathering out to be a bit brownish and don't look like the BO I raised from a day old chick earlier this year. They are the same size as the odd EE chick I got from the same bin. Starting to wonder about the little brown and black ones I got. Maybe my 2 yellow guys look so big because the other ones are so small.
