Goose sitting on eggs

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

So eggs under a broody animal is not like when we put them in an incubator and we start freakin if we lift the lid?

 

[ShannonR]

So eggs under a broody animal is not like when we put them in an incubator and we start freakin if we lift the lid?

What is the ambient temp in your area right now? Those eggs may actually be too hot. Mama knows best...

And, no, closer to hatch the eggs will not be as sensitive to heat fluctuations. Plenty of embryos have lived for a day or even more after a mother hen leads babies off of a nest and might even still hatch, although the egg was cold.

It's okay. Try not to stress, let nature do It's thing.

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

Well the temp here is somewhere between freakin HOT and OMG WE ARE GOING TO DIE hot. Coastal Georgia....

 

[ShannonR]

Well the temp here is somewhere between freakin HOT and OMG WE ARE GOING TO DIE hot. Coastal Georgia....

Come to think of it, it might be a humidity adjustment thing as far as your goose getting off the nest goes, too. I would just try to sit tight and relax, sounds like she is doing a great job!

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

Still nothing. She attacked my hen that tried to get in the nest with her and I only saw 2 eggs as I was rescuing my poor Bonita from her jaws of death. May have been more. I gave puds a few sips of my Gatorade (not with the fake sugar though) and she sat back down on them.

 

[ShannonR]

Be patient

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

This morning there was a busted egg and a dead baby. I am pretty sure it was a late quiter. My poor Puds was distraught though. I removed it fast but she was shaking and whimpering. It probably exploded. That would mean I think we are down to 2 eggs. I am scared we won't have a baby. I am DESPERATELY looking for a baby duck or goose to stick under her right now. If I order two from Metzer farm, I am scared of (for one thing) shipping babies PERIOD, and two...what if she does not stay broody by time they come? Is there anyone within a days drive of Coastal Georgia that has newborn ducks or geese for sale? I will make a new post for that....

 

[ShannonR]

This morning there was a busted egg and a dead baby. I am pretty sure it was a late quiter. My poor Puds was distraught though. I removed it fast but she was shaking and whimpering. It probably exploded. That would mean I think we are down to 2 eggs. I am scared we won't have a baby. I am DESPERATELY looking for a baby duck or goose to stick under her right now. If I order two from Metzer farm, I am scared of (for one thing) shipping babies PERIOD, and two...what if she does not stay broody by time they come? Is there anyone within a days drive of Coastal Georgia that has newborn ducks or geese for sale? I will make a new post for that....

A busted egg with a dead baby doesn't really sound like the egg rotted and exploded. If the hen was distressed there may well have been a predator (rat? Snake?) Coming into the nest, or another one of your birds. Keep your other birds away from her!

 

[ShannonR]

I forgot to add! Have the babies you want shipped, most times everything goes very well and if your goose hatches her own eggs or stops being broody, you can raise them yourself.

Sit tight and good luck, your babies aren't due for another couple of days. Now is the PERFECT time to order goslings if they can be shipped immediately.

One more afterthought, do you have any pictures of the baby that was in that broken egg? We could tell you a lot from seeing it if possible.

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

I didn't take a pic, it did not seem as far along as I would have thought it would be. How many days should I let her sit? She started sitting on June 7th and she is a Chinese goose. I checked her just before night yesterday and one egg had rolled out of her nest so I put it back. I didn't go looking thru, but I didn't see other eggs. So I have no idea if there are even more than the one under her now. Next year I will put her nest inside her night hutch in the bottom half of a large plastic kennel cab so nothing rolls away to the side again.