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I have a little 3 day old gosling that we are all very attached to. Could this "splayed leg" problem happen to geese too? It seems to scoot, almost as if it is trying to swim in its box, instead of walking. It will get up on its legs for a few seconds, but it is very wobbly, and it usually...

We are looking for some information on how to care for our 3 day old gosling. This is our first time incubating/hatching eggs, and we are unsure of the needs of our little gosling. We also hatched 4 chicks and 2 turkey poults that we are keeping in a separate brooder. Our little gosling is so...

We have one egg left in our incubator - a goose egg. We have been hatching eggs since last week. First it was chicks, then it was poults, and today our first gosling hatched. Now we have one goose egg left. We are on day 29. How do we know if it is/isn't going to hatch? We are new to all...

There are no squiggly things that I can see hanging out - nothing that looks like intestines. Thank goodness! This was our first attempt at incubating anything - we did it for a science project for my son. We borrowed the incubator and got some eggs from a friend. No one told us that we...

I have a newly hatched gosling with a weird protrusion or swelling on its belly. I think it is getting smaller, but I am not sure what it is. I am going to try to include a couple of pictures, one from a couple of hours ago, and one I just took. If someone knows what it is, please let me know...

Is our gosling better off in a brooder with the chicks and poults (1 week old) or in a box by itself? And we are really concerned about the distended/swollen red lump around the navel area. What is it, and what do we do about it? Help!

It has now managed to get the bottom part of the shell off. There is a thin strand of something still connected to the shell, and its belly area appears distended. I saw this in one of the turkeys we recently hatched, and it went away. What is the distended area? The "belly button"? How...

Our little gosling hatched a few minutes ago (we assisted a bit, but it did most of it on its own). We are concerned because it can't seem to get the bottom part of the egg off, and when I peeked, it looked like something (the yolk perhaps) is still attached to its tummy almost between its...

I am afraid to go to bed tonight - I don't want to wake up tomorrow morning to a dead gosling. How long before we should intervene? Thanks!

Help please - we have a goose egg trying to hatch, and we don't quite know what to do. It appears from this post, that there are several people online right now that might have some advice. The goose egg started pipping this morning, but hasn't made any real progress all day. There is a small...

My son has been incubating eggs as a science project. This is our first hatch, and we are pretty clueless. We got eggs from a friend - chickens, turkeys and geese. I now realize we probably shouldn't have done all of these together, but we didn't have anyone tell us any differently. Only 4...

My son has been incubating eggs as a science project. This is our first hatch, and we are pretty clueless. We got eggs from a friend - chickens, turkeys and geese. I now realize we probably shouldn't have done all of these together, but we didn't have anyone tell us any differently. Only 4...