Weird Chick

Mar 5, 2019
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I have 4 Lavender orpington chicks and two Lavender cuckoo chicks (all from same farm, all hatched on July 13th and 14th. The cuckoos are cockerels.) One of the Lavenders has it's wings kinda turned out and up. You can't really see it in the pictures but it's head is also kinda shaped differently than its sibling. None of the others are like this, what could be wrong with it?
The first four pictures are of the weird chick and that last two are of a normal one.
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I’ve seen some of my lavender Orpingtons have feathers come in looking like that. It seemed like those Orpingtons had excessive shredded feathers (caused or linked with the lavender gene). They end up fine though.

From the photo I couldn’t see anything particularly weird or wrong with the head.
 
I had a chick whose wing feathers grew in kind of like that and posted pics on a thread. People said it will fill in just fine, and also, that means it's a cockerel. Both were true...in fact it filled it the next day.
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