Posts by Puddle Foot Farm

Hello all,Haven't been on for a while, as I've been in Canada for the summer. I got home two days ago, and the next day, out popped a gosling from under my goose! My mom and I were shocked, and separated out the mother, father, and...

Hello guys!We will be testing out selling our cotton patch goose eggs. As you may know, cotton patch geese are extremely rare heritage geese that originated in America's deep south to weed cotton patch fields. We have both the saddleback...

Since you asked..The following one got stuck, but we helped him out of his shell and he lived. These are all toulouse and chinese crosses, from my first geese. We sold them as a flock to be an alarm system for a very large chicken farm....

My ducks drop off because of physical temperature change, not the availability of water, I believe.. Is the temperature in the pens different?What I really want to ask is.. What do you do with 3500 duck eggs?

Yes, we do. We used a small sized maglite LED in a very dark room, as goose eggs have pretty thick shells and can be hard to see through. You should definitely be able to tell if they are growing or not, as you will see veins in the...

Quote:Originally Posted by poultryfan73 Alright ill do what you do by just taking the eggs out. Where do you putt the eggs when you take them out?? And what is the point of misting? im just curious because there is humidity in the...

I had an incubator with a tray, so I could take the tray of eggs out. I think I left them up to 30 minutes, then put them back in the warm incubator. If you took off the lid, I suppose you could decrease the time to around 10 minutes or...

Geese naturally get off the nest for 10-30 minutes a day and to eat and take a quick bath. So, many goose hatchers replicate this by letting their eggs cool, and then misting them before putting them back in the incubator. I forgot how...

I hand turned with mine, but that just entailed moving the entire incubator. In either instance, you have to spray and cool the eggs, so that might be a case either way. You may remember to do that better with hand turning, or since you...

I used a Brinsea Eco to hatch goose eggs for the first time - out of 11 at lockdown, 8 hatched. I had to open it a few times to take out goslings and shells to make room for the rest, but no one was adversely affected, IMHO. I will be...