Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[psue]

Well I jumped in ... 9 goose eggs in the bator. 6 Dewlap Toulouse and 3 Embden, fingers crossed on the Dewlaps however I'm pretty sure the Embden will be good as Squishy had great fertility last year and he's 2 this year.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well I jumped in ... 9 goose eggs in the bator. 6 Dewlap Toulouse and 3 Embden, fingers crossed on the Dewlaps however I'm pretty sure the Embden will be good as Squishy had great fertility last year and he's 2 this year.

All the best to you this year hatching psue.

 

[Iain Utah]

Well I jumped in ... 9 goose eggs in the bator. 6 Dewlap Toulouse and 3 Embden, fingers crossed on the Dewlaps however I'm pretty sure the Embden will be good as Squishy had great fertility last year and he's 2 this year.

It's going to be a long 5 days until the eggs can be candled.

 

[psue]

All the best to you this year hatching psue.

Thanks

It's going to be a long 5 days until the eggs can be candled.

I know thats right!

You know how I love to candle.... poor chicken eggs get candled once a week,lol

 

[LTygress]

Thanks

I know thats right!

You know how I love to candle.... poor chicken eggs get candled once a week,lol

That's it? Lol!

My chicken eggs get candled *almost* every day. Usually every other day. But I do a constant in, constant out type of hatch. I have an incubator and a hatcher. But the eggs get moved from one to the other as room opens up - not on any particular day of incubation. And as room opens up in the "incubator" I add more. I've even got them backing up right now because there is no room. So each day when the sun sets (so I don't have to hide in a closet to candle them) I am checking to see if any eggs have gone bad to make room for more. Then I move eggs up into the open spots (closest to the front in the incubator means about to move to the hatcher while closest to the front in the hatcher means about to hatch), and fill the spots in the back with more eggs.

Clearly, I don't do a lockdown with chicken eggs. I'm hands-on the whole way. Just as the temperature will return to what it was set at when the lid is closed, so too will the humidity. Since both of them are only "temporary" drops when I open the incubator, it really isn't affecting the eggs.

To make it more interesting, I have the frizzle pen with two laying hens and a young roo. He's due to start breeding with them *any* day now. And I incubate those eggs to check for fertilization. So those eggs get candled A LOT, and re-checked very often as well.

But some days I think I'm just using the re-arranging excuse to candle the eggs more... lol!

 

[psue]

That's it? Lol!

My chicken eggs get candled *almost* every day. Usually every other day. But I do a constant in, constant out type of hatch. I have an incubator and a hatcher. But the eggs get moved from one to the other as room opens up - not on any particular day of incubation. And as room opens up in the "incubator" I add more. I've even got them backing up right now because there is no room. So each day when the sun sets (so I don't have to hide in a closet to candle them) I am checking to see if any eggs have gone bad to make room for more. Then I move eggs up into the open spots (closest to the front in the incubator means about to move to the hatcher while closest to the front in the hatcher means about to hatch), and fill the spots in the back with more eggs.

Clearly, I don't do a lockdown with chicken eggs. I'm hands-on the whole way. Just as the temperature will return to what it was set at when the lid is closed, so too will the humidity. Since both of them are only "temporary" drops when I open the incubator, it really isn't affecting the eggs.

To make it more interesting, I have the frizzle pen with two laying hens and a young roo. He's due to start breeding with them *any* day now. And I incubate those eggs to check for fertilization. So those eggs get candled A LOT, and re-checked very often as well.

But some days I think I'm just using the re-arranging excuse to candle the eggs more... lol!

I said chicken eggs. My babies are my geese. they get weighed, candled, aircells marked, hand turned....

The pictures are last year. i also have a hatcher. I set goose eggs every week. They start on the top shelf and move down as the weeks progress. I keep track of how many each goose lays, if I set them, if the hatched... and how many have hatched this season of all the birds.

 

[livininbrazil]

A donkey would take care of the dogs, thats why i got this one, for a gaurdian donkey to protect the animals from coyotes and dogs. They are in the horse family but from what i have seen with the one my dad had and now this one, they arent really a social animal like horses or geese. She was with other donkeys where i bought her but all of them where by themselves, in the same pasture but just in different areas. They seem to be happy with what ever they are with or not with. When i unloaded this one from the trailer the horses were really interested in her, "talking" to her and squealing. Like a bunch of men seeing a pretty girl. She didnt even acknowledge them just gave them a look like "eww you are soo out of my league" lol she was more interested in staying with the geese. Im sure some would disagree because they are herd animals but they do fine with being the only one as a gaurdian and will gaurd better by themselves.
Pet wise i would compare them to a goose, they are a very unique animal comical but smart.

Thanks for that. I´ll do more research now, that sounds good. I had a friend years ago that had an old male donkey she´d rescued. He lived on his own in a field near the house,but quite happy.
How exciting, a little donkey foal.

 

[servpolice]

ok she laid a 2nd egg today and its a bit bigger well 4 more eggs till i put them in the bator! Oh and yesterday i candled a egg i taught was infertile because i saw no growth but i give a egg at least 10 days and then yesterday i saw little blood vains! Only developing on day 10! Am i happy i didnt toss that egg out ! Its due April 5th

 

[servpolice]

Im still waiting for my buff african to lay! At the moment she has two husbands a brown african and a buff african so i when her eggs hatch i will know who the papas are

 

[Pyxis]

So there's life in at least one of my sebbie eggs e