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I'm from Romania and here there aren't that many geese breeders to exchange experience with, that's why I'm asking here as I'm not that experimented either 😄 But I can tell you some approaches we use on baby chicks, and we'll try to use on goslings too: - Primary food in the first days is...

I have another, maybe odd, question: Now at early stage, do you give your goslings a peppercorn, each? It's said it's beneficial to them 🧐

Well at the start ot the incubation, there were 17 but 1 was too fresh, did not develop and 3 quit along the way so in day 25 we went with 13 in lockdown, so it's still room for improvement. Yesterday was nice and warm outside so they got some vitamin D 😄

Yep. A very good guide with lots of useful advice, along with the one for assisted hatching. All of the 13 goslings made it rather easily. The one that was mispositioned came last. I removed a few pieces of the egg shell around his external pip but stopped when I saw veins still active. In the...

Ok, so the most impatient one hatched after 36 hours since the first pip. The zip was done rather quickly in less than an hour. Hopefully the rest will follow, now that they can hear him. 😄

Hello friends, We're heading to day 29 with our first batch of 13 Toulouse eggs. Most of them were wiggling since day 25 and some may have externally pipped (or could be some stronger internal pips that broke the shell, no beaks seen yet) Anyway, yesterday I made a safety hole of 2mm in the...