incubating african eggs - detached air cell (day 30 - they are hatching!!)

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Iain Utah said:
Thanks Lydia! By the way, Twist is 100% recovered and as darling as ever.
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Thanks Sue! I have pete's guide and personal help on this thread to thank for my success. Best of luck that you hatch beautiful babies too!
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So happy to hear about Twist, and to see those sweet faces on those goslings. I bet your other 2 adult geese are going to be beside themselves when they hear the goslings..
 
Pete, you are very sweet, patient, and attentive to your students! Many thanks! I am very happy with my new babies. They are so CALM and SWEET! I have a pair of adults that I believe are toulouse african crosses that came with the property that I am hoping will adopt the babies. They have been coming to the brooder room window every day since we hatched our first duckings (3 weeks ago) and cooing to them.

Here they are at the window:



Your gander is gorgeous! Also, toulouse is actually my favorite breed and I drool over the pics of yours!
 
Thank you. They do look like African crosses but I do find geese the most attentive parents. We incubate our eggs but once pairs hear youngsters they are drawn to them. I let our old pair of Toulouse adopt 2 sets of youngsters last year and they were amazing foster parents. Im sure yours might adopt the goslings when they're older.

The Toulouse are our favourites too and Im hoping this year we finally breed some Buff Dewlaps - better keep my fingers crossed
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I start to introduce ours by putting the youngsters in a run with the adults which gives them time to get use to them. In the first week they're only out short periods to avoid chilling. From about three weeks old I'll let them them run with the foster parents but they're closely supervised for the first few hours.

Yours are an early hatch so they're going to need quite a bit of extra warmth to support them in the early days.
 

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