I just ordered a hova bator incubator and brooder kit.. Looking forward to getting this in the mail. In the past have hatched goose eggs in a borrowed stillair hovabator and 3 out of 4 hatched ..beautiful goslings. I turned those eggs three times a day and had them on their side. I did not have a device to measure humidity at the time but I kept water in the bottom and eneded up with three healthy goslings out of 4 eggs
Those were the first 4 eggs from my pilgrim goose. I let her set on the next 8 eggs and around the estimated hatch date, found a squashed gosling. poor thing
. The next day I found another squashed gosling. And she still sat on the eggs for like a week longer, and every time she left the nest she left for longer periods of time. In the end, after a week, I removed the eggs...they were rotten. I've had much better success with the incubator...but I've only used it once. I look forward to my own incubator and hatching little chicks
