GOOSE BREEDING THREAD - for breeding, incubating, hatching and rearing.

[elsfieldchickens]

I am getting my goslings today so excited!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am getting my goslings today so excited!

 

[seminolewind]

I am getting my goslings today so excited!

It's exciting isn't it?

 

[elsfieldchickens]

Yes it is!

 

[KWSRetMSgt]

3 of the 4 I was expecting to hatch popped out this morning their still not looking real bouncy yet but their getting there. The fourth egg still in the bator I'm figuring something happened to it and most likely won't hatch. But I'm gonna give it another day. Besides today is only day 30.

 

[Miss Lydia]

3 of the 4 I was expecting to hatch popped out this morning their still not looking real bouncy yet but their getting there. The fourth egg still in the bator I'm figuring something happened to it and most likely won't hatch. But I'm gonna give it another day. Besides today is only day 30.

How precious, hoping they all get their legs under them real soon

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[gander007]

3 of the 4 I was expecting to hatch popped out this morning their still not looking real bouncy yet but their getting there. The fourth egg still in the bator I'm figuring something happened to it and most likely won't hatch. But I'm gonna give it another day. Besides today is only day 30.

Easy on the quick toss as I have had them hatch out a week late ....

 

[livininbrazil]

3 of the 4 I was expecting to hatch popped out this morning their still not looking real bouncy yet but their getting there. The fourth egg still in the bator I'm figuring something happened to it and most likely won't hatch. But I'm gonna give it another day. Besides today is only day 30.

Great, congrats!

 

[EeyoreD]

Geese just love baby ones!

They do! And, though this may just be mine, not just baby geese but baby EVERY bird! Mine snakeneck any adult bird that comes near them with their goslings but they will just gently nudge other species babies out of the way. And while they're focused on their own young, they're aware of others'. They don't step on them, they acknowledge them, and they want to know who they are. They have zero curiosity or interest in the adults (unless other birds are mating near them but that's a completely different subject).

Not only that, but if other species' hatchlings seem distressed, every single goose and gander in my yard that's not on a nest, yes even the ones with goslings, will perk up and come over to make sure those kids are OK (assuming it's not too far of a walk - they love babies and are protective but they're also fat and lazy - in other words... geese). I've been confronted by much of my flock of geese when I was handling new-hatched poults.

 

[EeyoreD]

3 of the 4 I was expecting to hatch popped out this morning their still not looking real bouncy yet but their getting there. The fourth egg still in the bator I'm figuring something happened to it and most likely won't hatch. But I'm gonna give it another day. Besides today is only day 30.

Awww! Floppy babies! Congrats!

I admit, I don't know how incubators work so I don't know if this would screw up the environment, but: Can you reach in and touch the egg? As someone else said, some hatch late. But when they're getting close, I want to say that last week or so, if you touch the egg you can feel the tapping inside. It's faint and only occasional at first but as things get closer it gets firmer and more frequent. If you can hold your hand on it for 10-20 seconds you should feel at least one tap on the shell if it's close. But again, I have NO IDEA if that's viable with an incubator.

But this brings up a question I just thought of - Do eggs rot/burst in incubators like they do under birds? Well not under all birds, my turkeys are absolutely fastidious about getting rid of those things - like 100 yards away - and many they catch before they burst. The ducks will just shove unviables off to the side to roll down the side of the nest (without the heat from the bird it slows the rotting/bursting). The geese are a mixed bag of just continuing to sit on them before and after (leaving me to clean up the nest and remaining eggs while they eat) or rolling them away. Do incubators have this issue or no?