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Ok thanks, I did put a smaller bowl in several days ago that they'd had when they were smaller, but it didn't seem to help. I should probably put it back in and see if they figure it out.Some chicks just don't thrive. I assist chicks that won't hatch of their own because of my son. These birds rarely if ever become top birds. High mortality rate on assisted hatch birds and typically are the runts of the flock. Pushed aside at the feed and so forth. So a weaker bird can't keep up with feed intake of brood mates and is not growing to it's genetic potential.
To give them a chance to gain on their brood mates you may want to provide better access to feed. Seems a deep dish for small chicks to climb into to eat. My belief is feed access is slowing their growth.
I remembered earlier today while talking with another farmer about it that I had the power go out a couple times while they were incubating so some of my problems could be from that.