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Anyone in PA have any goslings? Raising one lone gosling and looking for a companion for her. She’s 1 week old today.

Hello, looking for anyone in PA that may have goslings. I don’t care what breed, I hatched only one 6 days ago and I don’t want her to be alone. No one is selling them online or locally that I can find. Willing to travel several hours if needed. Thank you, Kelly

Hello, I have a goose egg that internally pipped almost 24hrs ago and there’s been just a pushed out crack of an external pip since about 11am. The egg still wiggles, I’m just afraid that if there’s no actual hole that it will suffocate. I don’t want to intervene if I shouldn’t. Can anyone...

It has a fan. Unfortunately, I think it will be too late to do that with this batch. Hopefully I can get these to hatch this time around.

The eggs were shipped, I currently don’t have any geese, but not for lack of trying.

I have a Farm Innovations incubator, I’ve had them on auto turn, but a couple of days ago I decided to manually turn these last 2 eggs. I don’t have calibrated instruments. I also cannot set the humidity, it only reads the humidity, but it is adjusted by adding water or removing plug vents...

If you are talking about the ones that never hatched, yes, they appear to die either before internal pip and one died after internal pip. The 2 I have left that are still incubating that are developing different are still alive. I just flipped them and the one that has most of the egg is...

That doesn’t appear to be fertile to me

Hello, I am having trouble getting my goose eggs to hatch, I seem to be able to get them to day 27 and they are still alive, but never hatch? I had 3 eggs at first and none hatch, I had one lone egg and the same thing. I have 2 eggs right now that are about 10 days out from being due. I put...

Not something I’ve ever tried, would you do that if they haven’t pipped internally?

Humidity prior to lockdown was anywhere between 50-58%. I’d say they are right at 20% of the egg volume, they air sacs are definitely not small.

Humidity prior to lockdown was anywhere between 50-58%. I’d say they are right at 20% of the egg volume, they air sacs are definitely not small.

Everything I read about goose eggs said they needed a minimum of 70% humidity once on lockdown, most recommending 85%. So I tried to keep the humidity between those 2 numbers. I read probably 7 different articles of people who raise geese saying they need a very high humidity. There’s not a...

I have one of those foam incubator, they basically rolled to one side then rolled back, they didn’t crash, but they definitely rolled a good bit. They still felt warm when I was candling them.

I just checked all 3, they are all full except the air sac, no internal pips in any of them and I couldn’t see any movement in the filled part of the egg. I don’t know how much room they have to move in the area out the air sac as it was mostly filled. So I’m not sure if that means they are dead...