Slow (failure to thrive?) growing chick...

[AKMotherClucker]

Hi everyone, we currently have 15, 3 week old chicks. It's a mixed bag, but one of them is significantly smaller than the others. The chick in question is a small breed anyway, a Phoenix, however she is much smaller than any of the other chicks. She is feathering, but slower than the others. She eats, drinks, sleeps all normally, and doesn't seem to get picked on any more than anyone else, definitely flys under the radar.
So my question, could this girl be failure to thrive? Is there anything we can do to help her out, are we going to come home to a dead birdy someday? I'm willing to try whatever! (Or be reassured that she is just slow to feather and grow
Thanks!

The bottom chick here is the same breed and age as our runty girl, but much larger and more feathered.

Black chick is a black jersey giant.

 

[3riverschick]

If this chick were mine, I would add 2ml per gallon of Poultry Nutri-Dench or Goat Nutri-Drench to the water for the next 2 weeks. It may be this chick just doesn't digest as well as the others. In any case the Bovidr Labs products do not need to be digested. They mainline directly into the bloodstream, measureable in 30 minutes with 99% utilization. I have used them on my collies and poultry for over a decade. last year we raised 42 Light Sussex chicks on the Goat formula ( always using the Poultry directions). Tho the Bovidr Labs products are species specific, they also meet the scientific standard for a universal formula. I had robust chicks with no sickness or loss.
The point here is that this chick needs extra nutrition. For some reason it is not uptaking it. Whether it is because it just isn't eating enough or isn't uptaking the nutrition, it needs from the feeds you are providing. In any case, these emergency nutritional supplements from Bovidr Labs bypass that problem, rushing needed nutrition to the chick so it will have energy to live and grow. http://www.nutridrench.com I buy mine at Tractor Supply for lowest price. Or try your local feed store. I use either the Goat Nutri-Drench or Poultry Nutri-Drench...
The poultry instructions are : 1 drop only by mouth per chick , repeat as needed every 8-10 hours. 2 ml per gallon in the water for maintenance, 4 ml per gallon in the water for a stress situation. If the chicks don't like the taste of the 4ml solution, just back it down to 2ml and you can be successful at that dosage, according to the folks at Bovidr Labs. Picking up a 3ml syringe and safely disposing of the needle makes a neat measure for adding the Drench. I make mine the tint of very weak tea. I raise all my chicks on a Nutri-Drench formula for the 1st month to get them off to a strong start.
Best Success,
Karen

 

[AKMotherClucker]

Thank you so much. I will plan on ordering some, however I live in southeast Alaska, and don't have the option of just going down to the feed store. When I got the chicks, they came from mcmurrays hatchery, and I have some powdered nutrition stuff that came with them, would that be a comparable option in the interim?