Poor Birds.... ***UPDATED WITH PICTURES***

Right now our yard is so dead from the heat that my girls are pigging out at the feeders again. If we had more land, and especially some trees and such where there would be bugs despite the heat I doubt they would need much feed in the spring/summer, but right now our yard is parched.
Perhaps the quality if their "range" wasn't very good at all, or perhaps they were penned like someone else suggested.
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Poor kids.

Could just be the heat too. I've noticed my big RIR roo looking slimmer lately, and it's NOT from lack of food or from mites, but the roo pen hasn't been emptying their feeders as fast as they used to. The girls eat coz they have to lay, but the boys seem like they just aren't eating as much in the heat.
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Yeah, let's go with the quality of their range being poor. I don't think that's the case, but I feel better thinking that than suspecting that they just didn't have food available. They're out freeranging today. They sure didn't take long to leave the shed when I opened the door for them. One other thing I noticed. When I first got them, their feces was pretty much water. It's getting more solid now. That must be a good sign....
 
Since you are planning on butchering them, I would put them on full feed. It really looks as if they were borderline starving. That's way too thin for an adult bird "slow maturing" or not.
 

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