Huge chicks

[pgpoultry]

I have 4 Brahma x Naked Neck chicks which are just 3 weeks old. Admittedly, I am used to the rather long and slow size increase of Brahmas, but their growth rate seems to be extremely rapid.

At hatching they weighed between 50 and 55g and 2 of the 4 were very frail, needing help with hatching and glucose water etc for about 12 hours. However, they are now anything but. Tall, voracious appetites, feisty and HUGE. I weighed one today and s(he) was 210g....quadrupling the hatch weight at 3 weeks.

Maybe this prodigious weight gain is normal in this type of cross....or maybe this specific cross is leading to chicks growing like weeds.

Anyone got any thoughts?

 

[drdoolittle]

Well, I have 6 NN chicks that I got not even a week ago, and I can't believe how big they are already! Just Tues.,I went back and got 6 more chicks-----who were about the same size as the NNs when I got them (which was just Sat.), and the NNS are about twice the size of the new chicks! Also, they started feathering out a couple of days ago too!

 

[suzeqf]

My NN is getting big but it doesn't look likes she growing extremly fast