Rural Gardening: Introduction and a question, 1 by K9MomTo6

K9MomTo6 wrote:
Hello...... My name is Laura...... And I have a chicken addiction.
My friends and family told me I needed to find a twelve step program.
But instead I found this forum.
Now I'm happy to be amongst others that are as crazy about there chickens as I am.
And of course I intro with a question.
I can't seam to go to our local feed store without buying some baby chicks, on one of these trips I noticed some cute little balls of yellow fluff, The sigh on the cage said ?
Apparently these babies had come in with there other order's and no one knew what they were. So I got a few and took them home to grow them up. I called them my surprise birds. They are about 3 1/2 months old now and while reading and trying to figure out what they could be, I read about different kinds of meat birds, and that when some of them grow up there legs can't support there own weight. There were horrible pictures. How do I no if this is what they are?
There size isn't much greater then any of my others. (Barred Rocks, RIR, that type size) They hang out with the rest of the crew, not always at the food bowl, They spend no more time laying down then any of the others, but there are some things that are different, They have thick yellow legs, and very little comb, and they are not as friendly.
I hope you guys can help me figure out what they are.