When will my goslings feather?

[featheredplanets]

My chubby babies are nearly two weeks old now. I’m just wondering when they start to feather out?

 

[Miss Lydia]

You should begin to see feathers sprouting on the end of their tails soon. They won’t be completely feathered in till around 6 weeks old.

 

[springvalley123]

I only raised goslings once, but my observations/memory, and my memory of Damerows' book is that full feathering takes much longer than with ducks, so around 13-14 weeks for the goslings. Of course they got very big much more quickly than that.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well you can tell it’s been a while for me too. My oldest is 12 I was thinking it was the same as ducklings I need go read my book of geese over again.

 

[featheredplanets]

Thank you both! It’s just I’m wanting to shift them outside in about 3/4 weeks. I only have experience with chickens and quail, who, by now, would be drowning in feathers lol.

 

[Miss Lydia]

They may not be ready with out heat if your still experiencing cold weather.

 

[featheredplanets]

It will be end of May when they go out so it should be quite hot by then, a couple of cold spells but shouldn’t be anything below 5c.