How old are chicks from feed store

[shelby_417]

i was just curious how old the chicks are from feed stores when you first get them. I feel like I may be calculating the age of my girls wrong because I don’t actually know how old they were when I got them. I am thinking they are about four weeks old now.

 

[kriz the farmer]

NO ! THEY SEEMS TO BE 5 WEEKS OR MORE BECAUSE THEY ARE ALMOST FULLY FEATHERED

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Chicks arrived at the store at 24-48 hours old, sometimes a shade more. By the end of their first week, they usually have the first signs of adult feathers, if that helps you gauge how old yours were when you purchased them. This photo is my five-week-old chicks the day they turned five weeks old. It seems likely that yours are 3.5-4 weeks as they do still have some feathering to do.

 

[shelby_417]

Chicks arrived at the store at 24-48 hours old, sometimes a shade more. By the end of their first week, they usually have the first signs of adult feathers, if that helps you gauge how old yours were when you purchased them. This photo is my five-week-old chicks the day they turned five weeks old. It seems likely that yours are 3.5-4 weeks as they do still have some feathering to do.
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Here is another picture.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

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It looks like they may range in age just a little. The oldest are probably just shy of five weeks, the youngest maybe up to a week younger.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Your chicks look about three and a half weeks,but may be four weeks.They look identical to the chicks I hatched out and they will be four weeks on the 26 if this month.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

I take that back,one of them looks about three weeks.