Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[psue]

Ok tomorrow is day nine for two eggs in the incubator ,and day nine is important because thats the day i soak the eggs in luke warm water

I wet the eggs every other day how do ye all soak yer goose eggs

I mist mine everyday. I also cool them as Pete55 suggested.

My "Red spiders"

I call them that because that's EXACTLY what it looks like at this stage. It has the big red dot, which represents a spider's body, and the "legs" coming out from the red dot in several directions. This is day 5. They are due on March 30th.

I have VERY little hope in the final outcome of these eggs, as all THREE of them have detached air cells. But my next set of eggs will be ready REALLY soon, and those probably won't have detached air cells at all (unless I get into a wreck...).

But we'll go with it and see what happens to these three. Maybe they'll be successful. Maybe they won't. But at least I have red spiders right now!

Nice spiders

I have no doubt that they will continue to grow. My fear is that with the detached air cells, they may not pip correctly when it comes time to hatch. They might make an internal pip on the wrong end, or make a good internal pip, and not actually be able to reach the shell for the external, because the detached air cell made their body shift. Just glad I have all the tools to do what I can. And I've successfully used Pete's "external pip assist" hole with chickens, so I'm confident I can do it for goslings, too. Although unlike him, I don't make it with a drill bit, I do it with a dulled-tip 22G needle, with just enough of a point left to get in without cracking the shell, and allow fresh air.

I found this maybe it'll help https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...t-of-damaged-and-mal-positioned-egg-air-cells

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

My "Red spiders" I call them that because that's EXACTLY what it looks like at this stage. It has the big red dot, which represents a spider's body, and the "legs" coming out from the red dot in several directions. This is day 5. They are due on March 30th. I have VERY little hope in the final outcome of these eggs, as all THREE of them have detached air cells. But my next set of eggs will be ready REALLY soon, and those probably won't have detached air cells at all (unless I get into a wreck...). But we'll go with it and see what happens to these three. Maybe they'll be successful. Maybe they won't. But at least I have red spiders right now!

Hey! Mine are due on the 30th too!! :

 

[livininbrazil]

I mist mine everyday. I also cool them as Pete55 suggested.

I always wondered if you guys did that, because sometimes the goose stays off her nest a very long time, and the eggs do lose a lot of heat, although they never get really cold, just cool. I would think that´s a good point, letting the eggs cool at times, as it´s natural.

 

[bargain]

I mist our eggs two times a day after first letting them cool down. I literally open the incubator up for aboiut 15 mminutes. Now I ONLY do this system if there are ALL waterfowl in the incubator (stryofoam) ....If they are in the cabinet, I pull the tray out. This has really helped our eggs and I mist heavily, as momma goose will often go to the pool and come back very wet. I used to worry about misting with warm water and I just use tap now BUT what I do differently is Cool off first and then mist because that's momma goose's pattern. When hubby hatches geese eggs, mine are always a better hatch because he's not a big mister. Well lol, he is actually because he's 6 feet talk

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[Miss Lydia]

Ooh I love geese eggs. I am going to try to store up at least 100 in a refrigerator for my personal use after our short geese egg season. Finally today signs of them starting laying 2 eggs....wahoo. Soon we should be getting at least 6 to 8 eggs or so daily if the weather will be consistent. I will incubate probably in about a week. I want to get with a customer who wants eggs very badly. I'll probably let her go first.

We have white chinese geese - purebred and they are my hubbie's favorite geese as they are such good gardeners and weeders for him. Here are just a few of their pictures! Here are just a few of our white chinese flock. They will soon be let free in the garlic field to do some weeding. I think it is tall enough now to be a good project for them !

Lovely geese, what all do you do with your geese you are saving?

 

[servpolice]

Hey! Mine are due on the 30th too!! :

what kind of goose breeds do ye have?!
Mine are due 27th this month ! Mine will be first! XD

 

[LTygress]

what kind of goose breeds do ye have?!
Mine are due 27th this month ! Mine will be first!

XD

I don't think this was directed at me, but all of mine will be Sebastopols.

Hey! Mine are due on the 30th too!!

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SWEET!

 

[bargain]

Lovely geese, what all do you do with your geese you are saving?

We will be baking and making noodles and I also eat them in quiches, custards, scrambled eggs, etc etc. and then we also sell art eggs and hatching eggs and We need to hatch about 20 goslings this season too, so Sooo many purposes I find that chicken eggs cause my arthritis to flair but duck and goose eggs do not! So I'm always delighted to see goose eggs

 

[servpolice]

LTgress actually if i think of it now its for everyone in this trend i like to know what breeds people have i find it very interesting Are your geese laying ?!

 

[Miss Lydia]

We will be baking and making noodles and I also eat them in quiches, custards, scrambled eggs, etc etc. and then we also sell art eggs and hatching eggs and We need to hatch about 20 goslings this season too, so Sooo many purposes I find that chicken eggs cause my arthritis to flair but duck and goose eggs do not! So I'm always delighted to see goose eggs

Sounds awesome, today I made cornbread muffins with my gooses Un fertile egg it called for 2 large chickens egg so it worked perfect, of course I would have much preferred it would have been fertile.