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Too early to say.

If she's made it this far, it's hopeful that she'll make it with some tlc. I'd also treat for vitamin deficiency.

Most birds come into lay between 20-26 weeks.

The gray one is male, the whitish one appears to be female.

He's still a big young for male specific feathers, but the night red wing feathers and comb/waddles say male. A word of warning, never allow chickens to ride on your person, especially your head or shoulders. if they want a ride and you aren't aware, that's an easy infected face wound or a way...

Cockerel

McMurray has them, availability is another question

Too early to say yet. They can go outside with heat, no need to stay in at this age

What is the tonic?

Just calcium deposits.

That's a horrible feed, the protein under the minimum threshold. It doesn't help that she's also getting scratch and mealworms, i.e junk food, to dilute her nutrition Switch to a chick feed or flock raiser feed with at least 18% protein, stop or drastically reduce the scratch and mealworms. The...

Nice pictures. What's her main feed?

Can you get closer pictures? It could be natural pigments or a fungus

What protein layer feed? Any ideas on ages? Did worm them? You could have been sold old hens

Diet? Where did you get them?