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Yes, they are both in a fenced in area close to my house, and the one is in a dog house in that area. I am in Hawaii so not many predators, but the first nest that was made was outside of the fenced area so I relocated them so they would be safer. I do have a gander and I have seen them mating. I did have a few eggs in my incubator, 2/3 showed veining, then one stopped about a week or two in. The other stopped a week before hatch. Huge bummer. It is SO hard to get birds besides chickens here, because of shipping, costs and laws too. Since we are off grid I cannot always run my incubator so I am going to finish hatching out some chickens and then the incubator retires for a while. It's a disappointment because this is literally my ONLY window of opportunity to grow my flock... The other girl is finally ON TOP of her eggs. I removed two and gave them to the other goose after I marked them. She is in the zone! I thought maybe the clutch was just too big for the other girl. I added some nesting material and tried to make the nest deeper but the next day she had pushed stuff around and cracked at least one egg. The shell was all the was left. At that point she was on the remaining eggs- 4 to 5 I think, except one that she was halfway on. I think next time around I will build some little a frames with no floor because I feel like the wooden floor is difficult as everything rolls around. When I had tons of hay in there the eggs would just get lost somewhere under it all so I ended up removing most of it.The one that has her nest outside is she safe from predators? My goose made her nest inside her house in deep bedding which was pine shavings I'd give the one inside more bedding so she can make her nest. She may never go broody though. Another question do you have a gander? But if there is no gander I'd take up the eggs. Letting them sit for 28 days is hard on them especially if nothing is going to hatch.