Goslings of 2015 Hatch-a-Long

[Thespoiledchicken]

I have been losing my eggs by day 30 , temp is 99.7 still air , try to get the humidity past 65%
day 25 babies are moving and I move them to lock down and by 29 they have been not pipped day 30-31 they have died
any idea what I am doing wrong

Your humidity is way to high for incubation and they are drowning before they internally pip.

Try to get your humidity down to about 25% for incubation and then only raise it after they have internally pipped.

I don't use still air so I'm not familiar with the right temp but I think you need to be slightly higher with still air temp verses forced air- unless that is an accurate reading @ the level of the egg.


Trish

 

[Iain Utah]

I have now collected 5 mini duck eggs and am super curious to see what may hatch from them, so hubby gave me his blessing to fire up my bator. I plan to set them this weekend, along with any additional mini eggs I may get the next few days.

 

[bekkanblue]

So apparently I have 24 Pilgrim eggs in a bator for fertility testing. And if the boys are doing their jobs.... That's going to be a lot of smiling fuzzies!

 

[randerson846]

Do u have to candle to check when they have internally pipped, is it when they all have, or just one, and what day should i start to candle to check , and how do i stop her from sitting on more than about 8 eggs? Wow! Lots of questions lol ahah

sorry bug can anybody answer these?

 

[randerson846]

Plus there is no water in my incubator, and I can't get it below 41% is this ok? It's staying at 41?

 

[Iain Utah]

Most people candle to see if internally pipped, but you can also listen for faint clicking sounds which means they have pipped. I wouldn't worry about getting humidity lower if your bator is dry and air vents are open. It is easy to control how many eggs a goose sits on. Simply remove extra eggs from under her. She will be upset at first, but will not stop sitting on the remaining eggs.

 

[randerson846]

Most people candle to see if internally pipped, but you can also listen for faint clicking sounds which means they have pipped.  I wouldn't worry about getting humidity lower if your bator is dry and air vents are open. It is easy to control how many eggs a goose sits on.  Simply remove extra eggs from under her.  She will be upset at first, but will not stop sitting on the remaining eggs.

Ok thank you very much

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

I'm putting my first ever 8 goose eggs in to the incubator tomorrow, never hatched them before, what temperature do they need to be at, what humidity, when do they stop being turned, I don't really know anything about hatching them, so any advice, would be really helpful, thanks

30 days,turn three times a day 99.5degrees, spritz with water daily, I do lockdown at 28 days (stop turning, keep spritzing) Good luck. There are lots of good info threads our there try the search engine, or maybe someonelse knows a link, haven't figured that out yet lol

 

[randerson846]

When u say daily is that every day, and what day do I start from

 

[Espresso]

I have goose eggs in with my ducks. So humidity is pretty high. (Like 60%) Is this likely to cause problems? I set them together so the ducks should be hatching a couple days before the geese.