What’s an ideal 6 week old silkie chick weight?

[agold23]

I wasn’t able to find anywhere on the internet how much a silkie chick at 6 weeks should weigh so I decided to ask here. I am battling a case of coccidiosis with the chick’s mom and I am treating them all currently with corid to end it. My silkie hen has lost a ton of weight, she’s at 540g (525g a week ago today at the vet)
right now and we’ve made it a point to track her weight gain. I wanted to know how much should a 6 week old silkie chick weigh so we could bring if it was affected by the coccidia what its goal weight should be.

Here they are in the hospital pen

 

[Swbertrand1]

I weighed our two Silkie chicks at thirteen (13) weeks (3 months) and they were at 1# - 8oz and 1# - 8.5oz, or about 680 and 690 grams.

If working backwards, that would have made them about 1/2 of those numbers at six (6) weeks of age...

 

[agold23]

Makes sense, chick’s about 205g this morning. I’m assuming it was affected by the coccidiosis like mom so we’ll track the weight gain but I also think that they put on more weight the older they get.

 

[Swbertrand1]

Makes sense, chick’s about 205g this morning. I’m assuming it was affected by the coccidiosis like mom so we’ll track the weight gain but I also think that they put on more weight the older they get.

Probably, and an exponential increase in weight as they age makes sense...