Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[ChickDancer]

Anyone know officially how long for a sebastopol gosling to hatch? 

Mine all hatched right on day 30.

 

[livininbrazil]

I can't wait for those pics *8*.....lavender....I don't have access to any. Look forward to watching them grow.
I am excited with my Sebbies....They LOVE playing in the water, and my Pilgrims were indifferent to it.

I candled today and I think at least two are soup and two look like they are developing fine. (ducklings)

Has anyone tried to candle an americana green egg and found NO light coming through? I have no CLUE if they are viable, soupy, rotten...and I don't want to float test them for obvious reasons.....

I will have to look back to see when my goose started to sit, I think it was 3 and half weeks...waiting....

Strange your Pilgrims not liking the water so much. Mine love it. There was something else you posted about your Pilgrims that mine are different to. Can´t remember now, though. Maybe just the strain. Curious birds, eh? Sounds like you´re having great fun with your Sebs now.

 

[Starfire669]

Good luck to all who have pips! Hope you get beautiful healthy goslings!
I am getting my kids ready for school, feeding and watering the chickens, geese, and dogs so they will be ok for the next 5/6 hours I am gone. And loading my car with dog crates and supplies to go pick up my ducks. It's 2 hours there, 2 hours back, and probably take an extra hour to catch the ducks or maybe I'll hit traffic. So planning to be gone 5/6 hours tops.

I have been informed that the lady who has the ducks has been getting an egg a day for 2 weeks and started getting 2 eggs every other day the last couple days. She doesn't believe her chickens are old enough to lay, so I may end up with laying ducks. What kind of nest do ducks like? She found her eggs on the ground and a couple were stepped on. Also, the food coloring trick to identity the layer, just put a drop on your finger and paint around the vent? On the skin or the feathers?

Thanks and good luck again! I hope to see beautiful goslings when I get back with my new Quakers!

 

[bibkel]

Good luck to all who have pips! Hope you get beautiful healthy goslings!
I am getting my kids ready for school, feeding and watering the chickens, geese, and dogs so they will be ok for the next 5/6 hours I am gone. And loading my car with dog crates and supplies to go pick up my ducks. It's 2 hours there, 2 hours back, and probably take an extra hour to catch the ducks or maybe I'll hit traffic. So planning to be gone 5/6 hours tops.

I have been informed that the lady who has the ducks has been getting an egg a day for 2 weeks and started getting 2 eggs every other day the last couple days. She doesn't believe her chickens are old enough to lay, so I may end up with laying ducks. What kind of nest do ducks like? She found her eggs on the ground and a couple were stepped on. Also, the food coloring trick to identity the layer, just put a drop on your finger and paint around the vent? On the skin or the feathers?

Thanks and good luck again! I hope to see beautiful goslings when I get back with my new Quakers!

My ducks live in the same coop as my chickens. I have one duck that lays in a corner, and now she is sitting. Every once in a while, I will find one either in the pool or in the field.

I overflow with duck eggs, my girls are great layers. most will lay in the boxes I have provided, and I have to make a couple more boxes....I get quite the variety of eggs in one box. Chicken, bantam, duck....mostly duck...I have to discard every once in a while. Imagine that, I get too many. LOL and the way they "frolic" in the baby pool......I am betting all of them are fertile. I have three drakes, one is limpy and gets too much attention from the other two drakes. I will be culling one drake,

just need to decide which. Both are mutts, one is a very light grey (blue swed and something else, I have NO white ducks and he looked white in the beginning ) or the one that LOOKS full on Rouen, but has to be a mutt.

LIvin' yes I thought that strange as well. Gander likes to stand in the pool during sentry duty, and he used to make sure he was the only one in the pool, no ducks allowed. Sebbies, LOOOOOVVVEEE water. Seem obsessed by it, actually.

Thank you chickdancer, 30 days. So May 8-11th. I hope they hatch on the weekend.

 

[bibkel]

That is the main breed I work with, so yes, I get that a lot.

Near hatching, you should see one of two things: either a shadow in the air cell from the internal pip, or blood vessels along the edge of the air cell. If you can't see either of those, its a bad egg.

I see absolutely nothing....at all! I mean, I know how to candle, duck eggs are super easy to see, and chickens are hard but I can see the air sack. The green eggs are solid. Every time. Which is irritating because I don't want to leave a rotten egg, and I don't want to toss a half formed chick!

I will have to wait until mama is no longer sitting, **sigh**.

I use a flashlight to candle. Dark coop, and hand cupped over the light, rotating to see every angle.....any ideas what else I might try?

 

[ChickDancer]

I see absolutely nothing....at all! I mean, I know how to candle, duck eggs are super easy to see, and chickens are hard but I can see the air sack. The green eggs are solid. Every time. Which is irritating because I don't want to leave a rotten egg, and I don't want to toss a half formed chick!

I will have to wait until mama is no longer sitting, **sigh**. 

I use a flashlight to candle. Dark coop, and hand cupped over the light, rotating to see every angle.....any ideas what else I might try?

Get one of those little LED flashlights that is only about 3.5 inches long. Then either bring them inside to a walk-in closet with little or no light "leakage", or wait until after dark outside to candle them. Whichever you choose, give your eyes several minutes to adjust to the darkness. Then position the flashlight before you even turn it on.

 

[psue]

Hope it hatches quick for you. Crossing fingers that your others pip.
I have 3 more internal pips now that leaves one left to internally pip. I have two external pips hoping the others are pipped by tomorrow.
This first one is dark with light points as far as i can tell hes still wet, hes not a Halloween.

awe hope you get a Halloween this season. I woke to all 5 pipped

and the first has been working on it's egg but not in a hurry yet. I lost a Dewlap overnight due to failure to thrive. It's only the second one I've lost to that... disappointing, but I knew it was a possibility as the baby was too sleepy from hatch.

I can't wait for those pics *8*.....lavender....I don't have access to any. Look forward to watching them grow.
I am excited with my Sebbies....They LOVE playing in the water, and my Pilgrims were indifferent to it.

I candled today and I think at least two are soup and two look like they are developing fine. (ducklings)

Has anyone tried to candle an americana green egg and found NO light coming through? I have no CLUE if they are viable, soupy, rotten...and I don't want to float test them for obvious reasons.....

I will have to look back to see when my goose started to sit, I think it was 3 and half weeks...waiting....

It takes a super bright light to see in those.

Get one of those little LED flashlights that is only about 3.5 inches long. Then either bring them inside to a walk-in closet with little or no light "leakage", or wait until after dark outside to candle them. Whichever you choose, give your eyes several minutes to adjust to the darkness. Then position the flashlight before you even turn it on.

x2

 

[servpolice]

8 yessss! And psue yessss! And 8 cant wait to see the pic of the baby to see if its lavender or not

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good luck to all who have pips! Hope you get beautiful healthy goslings!
I am getting my kids ready for school, feeding and watering the chickens, geese, and dogs so they will be ok for the next 5/6 hours I am gone. And loading my car with dog crates and supplies to go pick up my ducks. It's 2 hours there, 2 hours back, and probably take an extra hour to catch the ducks or maybe I'll hit traffic. So planning to be gone 5/6 hours tops.

I have been informed that the lady who has the ducks has been getting an egg a day for 2 weeks and started getting 2 eggs every other day the last couple days. She doesn't believe her chickens are old enough to lay, so I may end up with laying ducks. What kind of nest do ducks like? She found her eggs on the ground and a couple were stepped on. Also, the food coloring trick to identity the layer, just put a drop on your finger and paint around the vent? On the skin or the feathers?

Thanks and good luck again! I hope to see beautiful goslings when I get back with my new Quakers!

My ducks lay their eggs in the house in the shaving, a few will use the chickens nest box but most prefer the floor in the shaving.. safe travels and look forward to seeing your new ducks!

 

[servpolice]

ok all the eggs are fine and healthy but one gosling i helped to open the egg with because it wasent moving and it was moving thank goodness! But heres my question when i helped it the membrane wasent white but transparent and the gosling is very very sticky! :/ wonder whats wrong