18 days now and 314 grams...I'm amazed at how fast they develop. Bullet has begun flapping his wings and he hops while flapping trying to get airborne. I began introducing him to eating off of a carcass yesterday. By the end of the day he had mastered standing on top of it and pulling meat off the bone. I am supplementing the carcass feeding with cut up meat as well. Once he hops out of his box (my guess is within the next 3 days) I will begin lure intro and getting him ready to do his modified hack in the next couple of weeks.

Does anyone know at what age he will hit his top weight? When I imprinted my saker, she hit her heaviest weight around 37-39 days. She hit her flight weight at ~35 days. I'm interested to see the difference between a hawk and falcon in this respect. I'm also curious at approximately how many days it takes him to be hard penned. My saker was hard penned at 40-45 days, but developmentally Bullet is light years ahead of where my falcon was at this point. It appears that Bullet seems to be developing about a week ahead of where my falcon was developing.