Welsummer chick question.......with PICS

[SeaChick]

Attack of the MONSTER WELSUMMERS!!!

I just weighed the babies, and at 15 days old here is the breakdown:
RIR Ida 2.5 oz
EE#1 Lillith 2.25 oz
EE#2 Fatima 1.9 oz
Welsummer#1 Ophelia 4.5 oz
Welsummer#2 Beatrix 4.75 oz

Yikes!!!!!

 

[Chickchix]

Hi Stacey,

When were your pics taken? My chicks look so much bigger! Except for the SLW- she's tiny. Our Welsummer has about as many tail feathers and other feathers as the EE's and the Australorp. BTW, the Australorp stands just like a roo, but she's the friendliest. The Welsummer is friendlier than the EE's, and she's the most curious. If any of them as roos, my kids will be crushed!!!

 

[SeaChick]

Alisa, that is so interesting!!

Our Welsummers are much more scaredy-cat than the others, and the EEs are little love-bugs.

The pics are from Saturday, so they're definitely older now. The Wels are catching up to the others in wing/tail development now. But our EEs and RIR are seriously HALF the size of the Welsummers, look at the weights I posted today. It is really weird. I keep worrying about the little EEs, giving them warm mash and stuff..... but they seem perfectly alert and fine (except that Fatima often has clear/watery poop; Olivia claims that our hen Phoebe had the same thing as a chick so I am trying not to worry about THAT!).

I cannot figure out why the Wels are so much bigger! They are all eating the same food, for goodness sakes!

FWIW, our Australorp Olympia was also very roo-like. We were pretty sure she was a he at about 6 weeks old, but of course she's a girl.

I'm not so concerned about the Wels being roos since Vicki and horsewishr posted thier pics, but I am definitely puzzled about the size difference!

 

[horsewishr]

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Ditto with ours. I think Australorps just have a presence. When mine is free-ranging, her tail is curled up and over her back. I call her my scorpion!