Fertile possibility?

[Excitednewbie]

Keeping track of all these different eggs and dates is definitely keeping me busy but theres only one way to learn right! its all a good learning experience. The geese are all a couple days shy of being 1 year old so yes i am not expecting much to come of this seasons eggs but hoping at the least it will encourage the girls to sit on eggs again next season before i got my geese i had heard alot about goslings being hard to hatch and chinese geese being hard to breed, when the girls started laying eggs and we cracked a few open and saw a couple of fertile eggs and then they started wanting to sit on eggs i figured well why not give it a go! plus its helping me learn a whole new range of things if i find that any of my goose eggs are developing i will update with an excited comment there is just something addictive about watching embryos develop and watching tiny life breaking out of its shell. I have found all of your comments to be helpful and i really appreciate it so thank you!!

 

[Excitednewbie]

I have another question that im hoping you may be able to giveme some insight about...... in regards to putting incubated eggs/ babies under the broody geese -
1.should they be taken from the incubator and put under the geese on the day of 'lockdown'?
2. Should they be taken from the incubator and put under the geese after there is an external pip?
3. Should they be left to hatch in the incubator an then be put under the geese once dry in the incubator?

 

[JRies]

Iv brought in the extra eggs (when mama was done sitting and needed to instruct the ones that already hatched) hatched them and then offered the babies back to the mama when they were almost a week old she took them all and added the 3 to the 4 she hatched... so its up to you how you decide to do it.... I wouldn't offer the new eggs to here nest just be ready to offer her the babies if you hatch them. She wouldn't give them back...

 

[Excitednewbie]

Awesome thank you! Ill hatch them out in the incubator and see how the offering goes means i get to actually watch the hatching process YAY as a side note i have my ducks with 100% fertility rate so far- every duck egg that has been incubated or sat on has development

 

[JRies]

Awesome thank you! Ill hatch them out in the incubator and see how the offering goes means i get to actually watch the hatching process YAY as a side note i have my ducks with 100% fertility rate so far- every duck egg that has been incubated or sat on has development

Gosling hatching is so much more fun. than ducks. If your hatching ducks in your incubator geese aren't much different. But they are more interactive before they hatch. During lock down even before they pip they will wiggle there egg for you when you talk to them... They here your voice very early mine even react to the ganders doing there calls outside. I water candle before lock down with all of mine and talk to them to see how strong they are.. This is me talking to a egg

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=329070105198288

 

[Excitednewbie]

That is pretty cool!! some of my duck eggs on around day 12 are moving not like rocking and wiggling like they do when they are pipping and hatching but just like a tilt in one direction or the other like the embryo is heavy enough to tilt the egg depending on how/where the embryo moves! I 100% thought i was seeing things but i have sat there watching them intently for 15+ minutes making sure nothing was influencing movement and sure enough a bunch of them tilted different directions during those 15 minutes unfortunately i still think none of the goose eggs that are cooking are fertile, thinking of removing the aged eggs from the girls, leaving the freshest egg with them an seeing if they will lay some more

 

[Excitednewbie]

Small update so far 2 of my pretend goose baby duckies have made their appearance getting everything ready to offer them to my ladies

 

[Excitednewbie]

Is it normal for dead eggs to be full of grey liquid and a chunk of grey stuff? i cracked open an egg that the geese had been sitting on and sure enough out came a whole bunch of grey liquid and a chunky bit, just curious if that might indicate that an embryo started to develop but didnt make it ? Or if infertile eggs that have been sat on would still do that anyway?

 

[JRies]

Is it normal for dead eggs to be full of grey liquid and a chunk of grey stuff? i cracked open an egg that the geese had been sitting on and sure enough out came a whole bunch of grey liquid and a chunky bit, just curious if that might indicate that an embryo started to develop but didnt make it ? Or if infertile eggs that have been sat on would still do that anyway?

I dont have a good answer for you. Had some runner eggs like that 2 years ago but they had been sitting them outside. Im going to suggest you post the question on the Tread Im going to attach at the bottom. I know you are just trying to figgure out if the eggs are actually fertile and if they are what is happening. This group should be able to help. I had allot of first year babies last year laying and very low hatch rate. My boys just weren't ready and the girls eggs were just to small for a healthy hatch. Only 2 boys were producing out of 6.
Try posting here since I hatch and candle all I can tell when the egg goes bad or just never got fertilized.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/incubating-hatching-eggs.5/