Huge size discrepancy

[Chandlerharris]

I got four chicks from TSC all hatched on the same day and now are 4 weeks old. Rhode Island Reds and some labeled Leghorns.. well.. the Leghorns are HUGE. Even their legs are like tree trunks! It’s hard to get a picture accurately showing it. Is this common with leghorns? Has something been mislabeled? Just really curious.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

The "leghorns" may very well be Cornish Cross meat birds... can you upload some more photos of the white chicks?

 

[Meg-in-MT]

It looks like you may have gotten a meat bird.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Sadly it looks to me that the white one is a Cornish x

 

[Chandlerharris]

The "leghorns" may very well be Cornish Cross meat birds... can you upload some more photos of the white chicks?

 

[Mamatomany123]

I agree that it may be a meat bird.

 

[Mamatomany123]

Oh yeah, that's a meat bird

 

[Chandlerharris]

Oh yeah, that's a meat bird

I’ve never in my life had a chick so large at 4 weeks!!! They are little monsters

 

[Mamatomany123]

I’ve never in my life had a chick so large at 4 weeks!!! They are little monsters

They're made for that. meat birds are butchered around 8 weeks. They grow fast and get butchered early. Down side is you have to butcher them.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Sigh. Somebody needs to tell her why she has to butcher them.