Wee One

Well our youngest chicks are 3 weeks and one day old today. Although we are slightly concerned about our littlest one. She was the same size as her birthday counterpart days after birth, but while the other one has been growing rapidly and feathering out, this little one is pretty much the same size. In fact, the other chick born on the same day is now nearly 3x the littlest one's size! She does not seem sickly at all - in fact, she has the most spunk out of all of them! She is a fearless little girl and will keep up with anything the big girls do. We are not sure what the problem is...

So today we made a call into the feed store. They said that it sounds like she has stunted growth, and that there are two possibilities: #1- she will one day soon grow all of a sudden and catch up, or #2 - she will be a dwarf. We are hoping for possibility #1. I did a quick google search on the web, and didn't find much in the way of helpful or hopeful information. I will just have to wait and see what happens.