my silkies at five months old

[onthespot]

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Here is the Peanut! At a week old, the difference in size is still about the same, proportionately as when they hatched. I would think it was a serama mix or something, but the toes are black, there are five, pointing the right way, nothing other than scrawniness and size that puzzles me. It is now very vigorous and sort of hard to catch because it is quick and can just walk under the other chicks.

Anyone know about dwarfism in silkies? Would this be it?

 

[jerseygirl1]

Wow..............I hope my one itsy bitsy silkie looks like that when she grows up.............I doubt it, though. Wishful thinking. Your birds are absolutely gorgeous

 

[ShysCreations]

I think you're on to the dwarfism in silkies. I hatched a group and one white was normal size at hatch but stayed teeny. She was nearly a quarter of the other chicks size at 3 weeks (and they all hatched the same day!)