No, I bought the eggs for a project of imprinting. Yo can see the thread,https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/870801/mother-goose-project/10#post_13317573.
They are the grey domestic goose, like greylag.
My two babies!!! love them.
I think the imprint is done. When I'm not with him they tweet, they cand see me but he wants me over them jajaja. 2 babies of 4 have spraddle legs, I put him a wool yarn between his legs.
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Goslings hatched
One of the goslings who hatched yesterday was mishappen...dayed in hours...
Y lost two goslings, now I only have 2 completly hatched and 3 hatching.
I hope it goes well...
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I asked that because the second day of his live I would take a walk with him and go to a pool or the river to swim, the water is cold, because that I asked.
Another questin is: Why they move inside the egg?, I mean that the air cell was situated in the highest part and now the air...
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Goslings can swim the first day of live, when they are dry after the hatching?
I had ducklings, but I can't put him in the water because they don't make her own oil to proof themselves.
The first gosling had a internal pip. Tomorrow I'll be a mother goose :D
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servpolice, thank you for the answer.
Aboy the temperaute it's very high, at 40ºC the embryos starts to die, the best temperature is in 37,2-37,8ºC , and the humidity i have it at a 50% during the incubation and misting the eggs when I think it's appropiate and the final days I raise the...
Wow!!!! I wish all go well to you!!! Good luck
Mine are going to hatch in 4-5 days, I'm very impatient!!!!
How long it takes from the firs external pip to complete hatching?
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I lost one of my embryos, I think it's better because it had the air cell in the narrow part and it's 3 times more small than the other eggs. It could have problems to hatch
The other embryos are good, I can see very well the veins and in some of them can see the embryo moving.
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Here in spain we stop turning goose eggs at day 25, the parameters are very diferent. 50%humidity till day 25 and 70-80% the last days.
The temperature is the same, 37,5 and we let the eggs a few minutes a day to have fresh air, we open the incubators and when we go to close it, we spray some...
Jajajaja I'm making an experiment and and the final work of my studies. I'm going to imprint birds like geese, partridges, quails, peafowls and ducks, and make a documentary.
I wish that will hatch in day 29, because it's 4 of april and I can have more days.to stay with them. I'm very impatient...