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I usually wait until they are about 6 days along to start misting and cooling :)

Yes :) If the egg is losing too much weight, the humidity needs to be increased. Too little, and you need to decrease the humidity.

I do around 30%, but what works best for each location will vary :) Your best bet is going to be tracking the weight loss so you can see what's working as far as humidity goes and make adjustments as needed.

Moving waterfowl seldom works well. I don't think you could really move a goose without her no longer sitting. I've never tried it, but I don't think it would go well. You'd probably have better luck just moving the feed bin, lol.

I do bi-yearly deworming for my birds. I use Safeguard, and the dose is .23 ml per pound given orally. If you're not seeing negative symptoms of worms, it's not something you absolutely have to do, I just like to do it as a preventative type thing :) Plus now that have emus I have to vaccinate...

Oh no, there's no fixing it with her, lol. She doesn't mind going into pet stores and looking at them in the tanks, but she said she'd always be worried it would get loose or something. She is deeply terrified of them. We have harmless little garter snakes around here that I caught all the time...

You divide by 4 since there are four weeks in 28 days, to get 7 grams a week :) Here's another way, take the 28.2 grams it's supposed to lose over all the days, and we'll round that to 28. That means it should lose 1 gram a day. So over 7 days, that's 7 grams. The numbers don't always come out...

Perfect! Yes, grams is the way to go :) Okay, so the formula is pretty easy. For geese, you like them to lose 15% of their weight over incubation. Incubation time can vary, since it can take longer for the larger breeds than the smaller breeds, but I use 28 days since that's a good ballpark...

You'll need to weigh the eggs before you put them in so we can calculate their correct weight loss :) Clutches can vary in size. My Tufted Roman has sat on as few as three before when I missed taking the eggs for a bit. You could let her build some up and see if she sits, but they might well...

Congrats on the eggs! I'm still waiting for mine to start, though I hope they hold off until March at least, since I don't want the eggs to freeze. Her not sitting on them is normal, they don't start to sit until they have a whole clutch. This time of year though that means the eggs can freeze...