Candling/Discarding Goose Eggs

[Snakedoc]

Hello all,


I am incubating goose eggs for the first time and I have nine eggs in the 'bator. Last night was day 10 and I candled 2 eggs with excellent veins. The remaining 7 eggs have a reddish, cloudy haze in them. A couple have visible dots in the haze. I did candle on day 7 with the same results (the same 2 good ones had veins and the other 7 had red haze). At that point, I was kind of pretending/hoping that the haze was an embryo at an earlier stage of development, but at this point I think that's just wishful thinking and the haze is probably flocculent badness ....

I am inclined to say that I have 2 good eggs and 7 bad ones, but I am loathe to discard any prematurely. Do I run a major risk of contaminating the 2 good ones by waiting another few days to give the bad ones a chance to "come to life?" (I know, I know, wishful thinking ... But I was really hoping for a trio, ha ha!)


Thanks all!

 

[Snakedoc]

Candled again last night (day 11) -- looks pretty clear to me that all the eggs that aren't obviously good, are bad. :/ Will have to discard them tonight ... Hey, two is still better than none, right?

 

[Sarahs-zoo]

Hi,
I'm totally new to this so don't take my advice for granted. I have an incubator guru who has hatched out chicks and quails for 15+ yrs. he candled my goose eggs at day 15 ish. At that point we discarded 3 of the 6. They were just clear with a haze as you describe. I cracked one and sure enough it was bad.

I currently have 2 of the 3 left. One I'm not sure about. It has a strange air space. The other I'm not sure either but looks better. I'm on day 32 so not sure. Soon know either way

Good luck
Sarah

 

[Snakedoc]

Thanks for the reply, Sarah! (BTW, the woman who I got the eggs from is also named Sarah, so I had to look at your introduction post to see if you might be her -- but I can see that you are posting all the way from Scotland! )

The two eggs that I have that are good are most definitely good -- huge network of veins, just like you see in photos. The remaining 7 are hazy.

I was thinking of cracking one open to confirm, like you describe -- think I might do that before I toss all 7.

Good luck with your eggs!

 

[Sarahs-zoo]

Remember to crack it outside incase it stinks! I made that mistake once b4, not a happy hubby!!

Gd luck

 

[Snakedoc]

Ha ha, thank you That is exactly what I did (out in the woods, in fact), and the two I picked didn't stink at all, but they were definitely not fertile.

Because they weren't rotted yet, I think I may give the other 5 questionable eggs some time to "come to life," but I'm not holding out a lot of hope for them ...