Very little feather development.

[Dean126]

I am brooding 12 chicks right now of different breeds and all of them have almost fully feathered out wings at 16 days old.

This one particular chick is a partridge penedesenca. She has barely grown any wing feathers and is still mostly fuzzy like a younger chick. Is this a slow developing breed, or may something be wrong?

She is eating and drinking just as much as everybody else and is healthy. But just seems to be developing much slower.

The last picture is a welsummer hatched on the same day for reference.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Hello! What are you feeding them?

 

[Dean126]

Hello! What are you feeding them?

Here is a picture of the chick starter

 

[SmiYa0126]

Food looks good! She may be a slow developer. In my last batch of chicks I had one that was slow to develop. While the rest were almost fully feathered, she still didn't have her back feathers and only had partial wing feathers.

 

[Dean126]

Food looks good! She may be a slow developer. In my last batch of chicks I had one that was slow to develop. While the rest were almost fully feathered, she still didn't have her back feathers and only had partial wing feathers.

She ended up just fine then?

 

[SmiYa0126]

She should be fine