Pics of chickies!! How do you know they are healthy? Help!

[ZaneyMama]

Okay, I just weighed mine and they weigh between 9.5 ounces and 12 ounces!!! What the heck? I'll post pictures if my camera will ever upload to the computer.

 

[Berritt]

Hmmm, the farm I got them from had 2 different hatchings... I think mine might be from the later hatching, but that would make them 2 weeks old now? Could they be 2 weeks old?

And I suppose that would explain why they still like the light so much, they still lay under the light at 85 degrees!

 

[ZaneyMama]

I'm almost positive they're only 2 weeks old. That would make a lot more sense! After you see the pics of my 4 week olds, you'll see what I mean.

 

[Tala]

This fall I raised 4 Buff Orps and 4 Buff Orp x Barred Rock (sexlinks) and the sexlinks were faster growing. Call it "hybrid vigor" but I just think the BO's are slow.

In my limited experience, I find Buff Orpingtons to be slow-maturing as chicks and also slower to reach POL -- and that is comparing them to RIR, W.Leghorn, RSL, and BSL.
Many people on BYC have reported a "runt" chick (of any breed) that has been smaller than the rest for weeks, and then one day it just catches up almost overnight.

No biggie I wouldn't worry at all. So long as she's getting food/water aka making poops, she'll be Ok.

I definitely agree with the one who said "if it poops, it will grow"

 

[ZaneyMama]

Okay, here they are. I could only get pictures of 6 out of 8. The other two weren't cooperating.

Barred Plymouth Rock (Dora), the smallest

Easter Egger (Nelly)

Barred Plymouth Rock (Heddie)

Easter Egger (Polly)

Rhode Island Red (Ketchup)

Buff Orpington (Bot)

 

[NWChicks]

They're so cute! I have one who is the little runt and when I first got her she didn't want to eat. She'd do it here and there but the others seemed to be eating all the time. I didn't have any yogurt but I make my own kefir out of whole organic milk so I mixed some of that into the chick crumbles. Oh My Word! They all went nuts!! They're like little Velociraptors when I give it to them! She's definately eating now and while she's still much smaller than the other two she's gaining steadily, eating, pooping and drinking. I'm hoping she'll be one of those "overnight she's as big as the others" birds. She's definately feisty. Mine are also two weeks old and look very similar to yours (with the exception of the runt of course). I could do pics but it will have to be in a little bit as my timer just went off for my hair color and I need to wash it out before I'm bald!

 

[nanawendy]

Berritt The little black one sayin' "Talk to the butt"

It's been a few hours, How they doing after the milk bath??

 

[Berritt]

Sarah, yours DO look older than mine. I'm just going to count them as younger. They do not have feathers like that at all!! And I just can't imagine that I have 4 different breeds of chick that are all so much smaller than normal, so they HAVE to be younger, or so I'm hoping. I guess all I can do is wait and see.

 

[sloallie10]

Ya, they are definately younger. Oh and both or you to keep postin this pictures!!