Goose Incubation & Hatching Guide - Completed!!!!

[Laurie Y]

Pete isn’t going to respond, because he hasn’t been on BYC in almost 10 years. But did your last two eggs end up hatching?

Usually it’s just a matter of patience. Sometimes whatever causes them to be delayed, also causes them to not be viable. But in your case, they were set later, so they just needed more time.

As for putting some of the hatched siblings back into the incubator, I feel that that would cause more harm than benefit. Getting kicked around and pooped on could tip the scale the wrong way. But, many many eggs get kicked around and pooped on and hatch just fine, so who knows?

It would be interesting to know what you did and what the outcome was.

I wish there was some way to let Pete know how much he is still helping. I just went from 100% fail rate with my Toulouse eggs to 100% success thanks to his instructions. I currently have 9 healthy goslings.

 

[jshardy]

Thanks, Pete, this is great!

I've got 11 toulouse eggs in the incubator now that the sebbies have hatched. I got them cheap from a hobby farmer who had no idea how to handle them, so I'm hoping for the best. Worst case scenerio- I'm out $7.00 and a small amount of time...but's it's so much fun to try.

Happy hatching!

A truly great, professional, scientific approach and article! Your experience and knowledge conveyed in understandable language will be appreciated by all who are serious about self-hatching.

 

[Ladybrook Farm]

Hello,

Just wanted to thank you for putting this together. It is incredibly helpful and still being used almost 15 years after you published it!

Vince

 

[Jenbirdee]

I have a question for anyone who might be reading this. I have six pilgrim goose eggs on day seven I weighed them on day one and I just weighed them today. I find it strange that they are losing weight at different rates. For example, two of them are right on target two of them have not lost enough and two of them have lost more than enough. What’s going on? They are all in the same Hovabator 2360 with three extra thermometers and hygrometers. The temp has been around 99.3 and humidity 35 percent most of the time however it did go up to 60% humidity one day when I added water, but I was able to get most of the water out, so it went back down to around 35. I’ve also been moving them around to different spaces in the incubator- Every time I turn them. (I’ve been turning by hand five times a day.) I candled them last night and they all look good but what’s up with the different rate of weight loss speed?