Goose eggs set under broodies-Update & Pictures

[corancher]

I put my first set of goose eggs under three broodies yesterday. The Giant Dewlap Africans are now laying daily, Blue Sebastopol has layed a couple of eggs. Put a total of 12 eggs under three big broody Orpington hens and I am keeping my fingers crossed.

I got my first American Lavendar egg yesterday. Thankfully I had to forsight to separate the geese several weeks ago so all should be pure. The crazy weather has the geese laying a month before I thought they would.

Please send good hatching vibes. I will be trying to hatch a few in the incubator but to tell the truth I was a complete failure last year at my incubation attempts. I have done a lot of reading so I hope I will have better luck this year.

 

[austinhart123]

wow 12!!?!??! does she fit on all of them? after about 5 days of her setting on them candle her goose eggs and take all the inertile ones away to lighten her load! i would love to see pics of her and your geese... and as far incubating goes, what kinda incubator do use... did u have the temps at 99.5 for forced air or 101.0 for still air? were they bieng turned an odd number of times a day? did u have a hygrometer, the proper humidity shoud be 65% utill day 26 then put it up to 85% till they hatch... were you misting them? were you taking them out for 15 minutes a day for a cooldown?

 

[MissPrissy]

I am wondering how you are going to keep the high humidity and misting the eggs daily and the cool down period?

 

[banter]

You have a blue female Seb? Some of us with colored Sebs are trying to figure out their genetics. Do you know what color her parents were? Good luck with your broodies!

 

[austinhart123]

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someone here said that they incubated geese the same as chickens and they hatched...

 

[abluechipstock]

i put muscovy eggs under a large broody and they did fine without any intervention, i'm not sure if duck eggs need less humidity than goose eggs, good luck

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

When I was a kid, my Aunt hatched out goose eggs under her Japanese Bantam Hen. That was amazing. Big geese following around a little Japanese Bantam Hen. I think she only incubated 2 at a time, if I remember correctly.

 

[banter]

Dr. Chris Ashton of Great Britain swears by broodies, and devoted a few pages of her book to explain why she does. Apparently there's enough humidity under a chicken to work. She suggests no more than 3 per chicken
as corancher is doing. Hens get off their eggs for short periods I would guess. I don't own broody breeds, darn it!

 

[corancher]

The only goose egg that hatched last year was under a broody hen which was shipped seb egg from peeps&pips. I had two geese sitting and something either our dog or escaped pig got both nest of eggs.

The problem with the geese eggs under a hen was the eggs are so big that they have a hard time turning the eggs. I removed the hen once a day from the nest so she could eat, drink, and releave herself and turned the eggs for her. Did not have to mist the eggs at all.

Now just so I am clear. I have three hens sitting on four goose eggs each. These are nice big Orp hens so they don't have a problem covering the eggs.

My blue seb pair was purchased as an adult pair from Holderread's. I don't know how the blue was developed. Most of my geese are from Holderread's. This is only my second year with adult geese. Some of the geese I got three years ago as goslings. Geese are a learning project for me.

I will keep you posted on how this goes.

 

[austinhart123]

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oops i read wrong i thought u said that u had 12 under one hen which would be impossible lol