Why isn't my chicken peep growing?

Question

I have a six week old frizzle cochin peep who's the same size as his 2 week old brooder mates. He has a few wing feathers, but he's not getting any bigger and he isn't getting any feathers. Anyone know why?

Answer 1

Peeps are small marshmallow candies, sold in the United States, which are shaped into baby chickens, rabbits, and other animals. Peeps are primarily used to fill Easter baskets. They are made from marshmallow, sugar, gelatin, and carnauba.

Peeps are usually eaten in one of five ways:

plain, out of the box
dried (sometimes for years) and hardened.
microwaved (which makes the marshmallows softball-sized)
frozen
roasted over a flame, like a regular marshmallow.
Peeps are made by Just Born, a candy manufacturer based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Just Born claims Peeps were introduced in 1953, but most aficionados say that Peeps were originally manufactured by Rodda Candy Company starting in the 1920s. When Just Born acquired Rodda Candy Company in 1953, they automated the process and mass-marketed them. Peeps were first advertised on television in February of 1999.

Many lovers of Peeps refer to the period between February 15 and the Sunday after Easter as "Peep Season". In recent years, Just Born has expanded its line to include bats, cats and ghosts for Halloween; hearts for Valentine's Day; trees, gingerbread men, and snowmen for Christmas; and red, white, and blue chicks and stars for the 4th of July.

Rumors of Peeps' purported indestructibility have evolved into a veritable myth that has come to define the product's place in the lore of pop-culture ephemera. In an effort to establish this legend as fact or fiction, scientists at Emory University performed experiments on batches of Peeps to see whether they could be dissolved. They concluded that the candy is indeed difficult to destroy, CNN reported.

The messy and largely self-entertaining game, "Peep Jousting" is played with a microwave. One takes two Peeps, and licks the right-hand side of each until sticky. A toothpick is thereby adhered to each Peep, pointing forward like a jousting lance. The Peeps are then set in a microwave, squared off against one another, and heated up. As they expand, the toothpick lances thrust toward each opponent, and the winner is the one that does not pop and deflate. Ties (both fatal and harmless) are common. Both usually are eaten after the competition, however, regardless who the victor was, calling into question the nature of "winning" in such a circumstance.

Peeps have also been used by jewelery designer Jennifer Kellogg, though now her creations are only Peep-like and use other materials.

Cartoonist Jhonen Vasquez has written, "I love drawing and writing. I also love squeezing marshmallow Peeps in the store."

There also exists a line of Peeps stuffed animals in the form of bunnies and chicks.

A man from Sacramento, California ate 72 peeps in thirty minutes, which is a world record. [1]

Answer 2

Make sure it is warm enough in your brooder, and make sure there is enough feeder space for all your chicks to eat at once. It might also help to separate them into smaller groups, but not too small, they need eachother's body heat to keep warm.

Answer 3

He suffers from acute henhouse peepomania. In cases
such as these I usually suggest gettin down with a little more
frizzle and a little less drizzle if you catch my drift. Try not to be
coachin or poachin the peep unless you have blue bonnet on it.

In summation, WHY ask WHY?

Answer 4

have you been feeding him???

maybe the two are competing for food and the big one is winning.

Answer 5

how warm is it where the animal is? yea have you been feeding him? and what have you been feeding him? what quility feed you got? and maybe its a defect