My trio was hatched on June 17th, which is the same day my granddaughter was born this year so really easy to remember... so they are shy of 5months.
It's been in the mid-upper 80's lately. Around 70-75 for the low at night. It's 11:45 and a sticky/humid 78 right now. Can't even open the darn windows. Ugh.
Right not they are almost completely off their feed.
At the peak of their growth I was feeding 6 pans (large stainless steel pan, same size I use to feed my 2 100lb GSDs) a day to them of FF, divided, B/L/D. And they were pretty much pigs just scarfing it all down. They also had constant access to good, fresh, grazing 24/7, even when penned. Suddenly at about 4 months that cut in half, then only 2 pans a day. Now they will hardly clean up one pan. And then ONLY when penned up with it in the evening. I was putting it out early in the day, and they would follow me into the pen, nibble at it, then leave it to go graze and just let it sit there all day.
For a couple of weeks I have been out of the seed mix that I was adding to my feed, so today I added more, and doubled up on it hoping that would encourage them a bit to clean up the feed as they like the BOSS quite a bit. Also, I figure with them maturing the protein can come down some more.
They look great though...
Their feathers have come in nicely and their moult into adult plumage has about stopped.
The geese are getting the lovely split in their breasts. And the gander is being VERY teenager-y. LOL Likes me still... men, not so much!
I walked them out to the back pasture today for the first time. (At sundown I walked them back to the yard and their mobile sleeping pen.)
I'm not really sure they appreciated the change of scenery even though I moved one of their swimming pools back there for them.
The grass back there is taller... they were not impressed, so I think I may have to mow.
Since they have matured... they have taken to digging holes around their water bucket. Yay.
I just fill it back in with the sand, and any manure/grass pluckings around the area... and consider that an "improved" spot in my sandy FL lawn. LOL