APRIL HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[newduckie]

I have achieved lockdown. My humidity is 76% but the temp has dropped for the time being. Hope it goes back up without me messing with it. Is 76% enough for goose eggs? Also have a goose sitting on 5 eggs. Bator due Sat, and goose due sunday. Have a chicken sitting on NOTHING.... I have thrown her from the nest for three days and she keeps going back, so this morning I gave her three duck eggs. I had a pretty good size bowl of collected goose and duck eggs for a goose that I keep thinking would go broody... this morning I dropped the bowl and broke all but two of the goose eggs.. I was sooo mad. hope she holds off for a few days now so I can get a few eggs again.

 

[krstms]

Oh I cant wait to see pictures of the baby geese!! Good luck with your hatch.

 

[chickenmeadow]

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All right, the 1st chick is out! Congrats!

 

[chickenmeadow]

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Those duckies must be in bliss to have a pond of their own. Great pic of them!

 

[PandoraTaylor]

ok so nose stuck to the incubator, at 2:40 AM I decided I needed to set more eggs. lol
So I took 30 eggs from my flock, and placed in the Still Air, in the turner and watched the temp it is holding steady at 100.5 so here we go these should be due April 29th.
once this hatch is over I will switch the top of the incubators around (moving the forced air one to the new eggs). All are Light brahma or Light Brahma cross.

At 7:20 AM nose back on the hatching incubator, there is still just one black chick, and 23 eggs, no pips or zips can be seen.

So now we wait..........patience patience patience
ETA:
9:30 AM egg # 24 has a pip!

ETA: 2nd one has a pip, bigger than the first.

Come on chickies.......the one hatchling is lonely.....come on join in the fun..

 

[whitecra]

My broody had 8 eggs and she now has 6 baby chicks. I am so glad that they hatched. She was off the nest all night one night. She was on another nest. I didn't know if these would hatch or not but they did.
Chris

 

[chickenmeadow]

newduckie has another goose egg question about humidity on post #481. Someone please help her. I love geese but don't have a clue about how to hatch them in a bator. When we lived at our 1st home here in Oregon, we had a wonderful pair of Canadian geese that we got as babies. When they were able to fly, they would fly out of the barn & follow our old camero down the road. My hubby always laughs to remember that the 1st time they followed us, I was so nervous that they would get lost & not find their way home. A "very silly city gal" I was at the time, now I'm just very silly.

 

[chickenmeadow]

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Horray! Your nice "broody" came thru with 6 chickies. Good for you!

 

[Madcap621]

Progress report.

Bear in mind that I am running 5 incubators, all stuffed to the gills

WHAT was I thinking!

Incubator # 1 - King Suro 20. Temp holding perfectly but having humidity issues --- too high. 'Course the RH in the house is 55 - 65% 14 FBCMs & FBMs - too dark to see into.
Incubator # 2 - LG forced air, Holding temps fairly well w/added 'wheel' to adjustment knob [worn out wafers are the perfect size, wooden shish-ka-bob skewers glue them together nicely] -- 18 Golden Comets and 23 Australorps. 6 probable clears & 6 suspicious for blood rings. All others appear packed w/chick --- what I would expect to see at 14 days! [ Is the bator temp too high? ] RH 37 - 40%

Incubator #s 3, 4 & 5 -- 110 assorted LF & bantam [40 breeds + 20 mixed] Heritage &/or endangered: 4 cracked but early development - patched, 7 probable blood rings, 12 clear vs very early development [temps too low??

] One clear with a floating air cell. All remaining in various stages of development [Again, temps too high or too low?

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Left everything in, divided them up according to apparent developmental stage. Will continue to watch

wait

and do the best I can

. Hatch date 19 April. Gonna re-candle on the 16th, put them in lockdown hatchers and go to a RenFaire!

 

[chickenmeadow]

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Poor PandoraTaylor's stuck nose. How fun! Go pips, go!