Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

set 17 goose eggs, moved chicken eggs into the hatcher, marked the aircells on the week old ones. 8 ... I should have worded that better... How long does it stay on the butts?
 
Candled again tonight on the 8 eggs that were fertile out of 11 eggs. Also one stopped growing so down to 7 eggs and one in question again which may not make it until the end. We shall see. Were are into two weeks now.

Have a bunch more in the bottom of the repto that I can candle at the weekend...
Plus 10 more in the R-com... I know that there will be non fertile ones. But hope to have a nice amount that keep growing.
 
set 17 goose eggs, moved chicken eggs into the hatcher, marked the aircells on the week old ones.   8 ... I should have worded that better... How long does it stay on the butts?

Sorry! I apply it the night before i expect them to lay, just a little on the end of my finger(with rubber glove cause it stains skin) swirl it around the vent as close to it as possible without getting it inside of course. Since the feathers are waterproof it beads up and sticks to the tips and dries. I also only give them a bucket to drink from during the night so no bathing until after eggs are laid. As the egg comes out the moisture wets the dye again. Afterwards they get their pool or turned loose on the pond and thats the only time it colors the egg. If i dont reapply it, it takes less than a week to fade away. I have a white chinese that i thought was laying, who i painted purple a day ago and shes all clean now. Sorry for the long reply :)
 
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[COLOR=0000FF]Candled again tonight on the 8 eggs that were fertile out of 11 eggs. Also one stopped growing so down to 7 eggs and one in question again which may not make it until the end. We shall see. Were are into two weeks now.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=0000FF]Have a bunch more in the bottom of the repto that I can candle at the weekend...[/COLOR]
[COLOR=0000FF]Plus 10 more in the R-com... I know that there will be non fertile ones. But hope to have a nice amount that keep growing.[/COLOR]

I hope you get lots of gossies RuRu!
 

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