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chicken hawk 33 said:
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If you have a spray bottle next to the incubator that you should have put some warm water in the bottle and spray the eggs lightly is about the most you can do or put a wet hand towel warm of course this should bring up the humidity ...


60% humidity is low but your weather where you are will have a great impact on your hatch also for example where I am the temps are a low for this week of 68F to a high of 85F degrees so the hatches are working out great and a 60% humidity would still get a good hatch rate but if it were colder out side the hatch rate would be much lower and this is something to keep in mind ....





I took this photo on the 10 of March 2016 and see is sitting on 11 eggs and sitting in the sun not the shade and the week before I sat and watched her all day and she did not move even to get wet but she very well might have moved at night but not in the day time and there were times the geese would chase her off her nest and the eggs would be in the sun light for up to 20 minutes but she had not given up and in that time she did not take a dip into the water ...



Keep up the good work and keep us posted on your progress ......
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gander007 said:
If you have a spray bottle next to the incubator that you should have put some warm water in the bottle and spray the eggs lightly is about the most you can do or put a wet hand towel warm of course this should bring up the humidity ... 60% humidity is low but your weather where you are will have a great impact on your hatch also for example where I am the temps are a low for this week of 68F to a high of 85F degrees so the hatches are working out great and a 60% humidity would still get a good hatch rate but if it were colder out side the hatch rate would be much lower and this is something to keep in mind .... I took this photo on the 10 of March 2016 and see is sitting on 11 eggs and sitting in the sun not the shade and the week before I sat and watched her all day and she did not move even to get wet but she very well might have moved at night but not in the day time and there were times the geese would chase her off her nest and the eggs would be in the sun light for up to 20 minutes but she had not given up and in that time she did not take a dip into the water ... Keep up the good work and keep us posted on your progress ......
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it's 70_80 degrees outside
 
Hi Everyone,
I posted this under emergencies, but then I found this thread and thought someone here might be able to help me.
I had 4 goose eggs under a broody hen because my goose did not go broody. This hen did a reasonably good job except she pooped on the eggs in week 2. I very carefully cleaned the eggs but it was a big mess and I knew that this had compromised the eggs so I did not have high hopes for this clutch. I thought at one point a week ago that I saw something moving inside one of the eggs but the poop smears really made candeling difficult and I could not be sure.

Yesterday was day 32 with nothing happening. Nothing at all. My neighbor came over late in the day and advised me to throw the eggs away or risk them exploding (this happened to her on day 33 a few weeks ago and was a massive mess) so she and I proceeded to candle (we saw nothing), then open each egg carefully to check at what point they had stopped developing. Lo and behold one of them was alive. The other three were nothing but black goo. She carefully cracked at the air gap and saw the gosling move in the direction of the hole. It had been malpositioned and never would have been able to pip. It's head was folded under itself. There was no blood visible. She carefully pulled it's head out of the hole and for the most part it looks normal. It was peeping lightly but not energetic. So I put it back under the hen for the night in hopes it will get the strength to work itself out of the egg. Only it's head was sticking out of the shell.

This morning at first light I ran out to see if it had survived the night and it did. But it is not any further out of the egg and not much more energetic. Momma hen is being patient and keeping it warm and waiting.

I've read the above step-by-step about assisted hatch but I'm not feeling confident. Can anyone tell me the next steps I should take here? It's now day 33 and 18 hours after we opened the shell. I don't want to interfere too much but I'd like to do the right thing if I can save this little thing. It's peeping more and seems to be pushing without luck of breaking free.

Here is a picture:



Thank you all so much!
IronEagle
 
IronEagle said:
Hi Everyone,
I posted this under emergencies, but then I found this thread and thought someone here might be able to help me.
I had 4 goose eggs under a broody hen because my goose did not go broody. This hen did a reasonably good job except she pooped on the eggs in week 2. I very carefully cleaned the eggs but it was a big mess and I knew that this had compromised the eggs so I did not have high hopes for this clutch. I thought at one point a week ago that I saw something moving inside one of the eggs but the poop smears really made candeling difficult and I could not be sure.

Yesterday was day 32 with nothing happening. Nothing at all. My neighbor came over late in the day and advised me to throw the eggs away or risk them exploding (this happened to her on day 33 a few weeks ago and was a massive mess) so she and I proceeded to candle (we saw nothing), then open each egg carefully to check at what point they had stopped developing. Lo and behold one of them was alive. The other three were nothing but black goo. She carefully cracked at the air gap and saw the gosling move in the direction of the hole. It had been malpositioned and never would have been able to pip. It's head was folded under itself. There was no blood visible. She carefully pulled it's head out of the hole and for the most part it looks normal. It was peeping lightly but not energetic. So I put it back under the hen for the night in hopes it will get the strength to work itself out of the egg. Only it's head was sticking out of the shell.

This morning at first light I ran out to see if it had survived the night and it did. But it is not any further out of the egg and not much more energetic. Momma hen is being patient and keeping it warm and waiting.

I've read the above step-by-step about assisted hatch but I'm not feeling confident. Can anyone tell me the next steps I should take here? It's now day 33 and 18 hours after we opened the shell. I don't want to interfere too much but I'd like to do the right thing if I can save this little thing. It's peeping more and seems to be pushing without luck of breaking free.

Here is a picture:



Thank you all so much!
IronEagle
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If it were mine, I would go ahead and help it out of the shell. MAKING sure to stop at the sign of blood. Sorry to sound stupid, but is that the egg in the middle of the picture with the head to the right?
 
Ren2014 said:
If it were mine, I would go ahead and help it out of the shell. MAKING sure to stop at the sign of blood. Sorry to sound stupid, but is that the egg in the middle of the picture with the head to the right?
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Thank you Ren2014! I appreciate the response. Yes, it is the shell on the left and the head on the right. Sorry for the terrible picture but I did not want to disturb the hen currently keeping it warm!

After I assist it getting out should I put it back under the hen?

Thanks again,
IE
 

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