Goose Incubation & Hatching Guide - Completed!!!!

Hi, I've had my geese for a year or 2. I bought them when they were about a year old. So far the female goose has set on eggs, 3 and this will make the 4th time. No viable eggs yet (not sure about this time). I'm not educated on this breed. When do they start mating, and why would their be no baby's hatched yet?View attachment 3541047

Even in their first year they can have fertile eggs, so by now you should have them. Is it possible you have two females? Have you candled the eggs while she is sitting to check if they are developing at all? That would tell you if they are starting and then something is going wrong, or if they're nor fertile to begin with and something else might be going on.
 
Even in their first year they can have fertile eggs, so by now you should have them. Is it possible you have two females? Have you candled the eggs while she is sitting to check if they are developing at all? That would tell you if they are starting and then something is going wrong, or if they're nor fertile to begin with and something else might be going on.
No I haven't, I worry that she would stop sitting on them. I'm sure mine are male and female.
 
No I haven't, I worry that she would stop sitting on them. I'm sure mine are male and female.

I would crack an egg open and take a look at it to see if it's fertile - the male might not be getting the job done. Things like a penis injury can cause male geese to not be fertile, as well as things like mycoplasma, which geese can carry with no symptoms except infertility.

You'll be looking for the little dot on the egg yolk. In an unfertilized egg, it just looks like a white dot. In a fertilized egg, it looks like a little white bullseye. You can post pictures too and we can look at it if you want someone to double check it for you :)
 

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