Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[livininbrazil]

So I candled my eggs just now and one of the goose eggs in the incubator (scheduled to hatch in about a week) sloshed when I put it back down. It sounded sloshy and also felt sloshy. That's the best way I can describe it. Should I toss it? Is that an indication of anything in particular?

Sloshy egg is a bad egg to be tossed.

 

[ChickDancer]

So I candled my eggs just now and one of the goose eggs in the incubator (scheduled to hatch in about a week) sloshed when I put it back down. It sounded sloshy and also felt sloshy. That's the best way I can describe it. Should I toss it? Is that an indication of anything in particular?

If you candle it, and turn it while you candle it, does the air cell move? If so, toss it.

 

[Iain Utah]

I gave 5 white African eggs to my neighbor to set for me last night since he is using my bator this year. Not sure how much better my odds are of getting goslings this way vs giving them to my broodies as my neighbor is still learning how to incubate. He has had his temps too low and is getting very poor and late hatches. I had him adjust the temperature and gave him another short teaching session while at his place, so hopefully his hatch rate will improve.

At least he was able to hatch one of the three buff dewlap eggs he got from me and thankfully it is a healthy and happy gosling.

 

[Starfire669]

Ok, my goslings are 7 weeks old. One has a bad case of angel wing that I have been wrapping. I leave the wrap on for 3 days and take off because of their growth, I'm worried about cutting of circulation to his wings. His left wing is much improved but his right wing flops out as soon as the vet wrap is removed. None of the others show signs of angel wing. What am I doing wrong that his wing won't set right?
Also, when geese lay do you put them on laying feed like a chicken or just have a bucket of calcium available?

 

[psue]

Candled my 12 remaining eggs. Tonight they are on day 11. They are now responding to the light and when i looked at them most of them are wiggling

Although im not sure but one looked as if it may have quit.
Also i have had a memory lapse, the air cells seem to be increasing already, is this normal? I cant for the life of me remember if this happened with my 3 batches last year.

they do grow as time progresses but the big difference is when they dip

 

[DaisyMeadow]

If you candle it, and turn it while you candle it, does the air cell move? If so, toss it.

I have a couple of eggs that have moving air cells. So I should toss them, then? I can do that. Just having a bad hatching spring for incubation, for sure.

On the upside, I have 3 broodies on nests, all toulouse. Don't know what's up with that, that no Embdens have taken nests, but it seems that there are a few that want to lay where one toulouse has taken up residence. She didn't like that one bit this morning, though.

 

[servpolice]

RuRu hopefully the leg will get better ,and buff sebbies are the best colour on the breed for my opinion which is yours ?!

 

[servpolice]

today i caught one of my tuffed geese lay its first egg of the year! I saw it being layed and i thought what the ****! Look at the size of it! When she left i grabbed the egg and try to crack it but it was hard as a golf ball!when i cracked it the shell was extremly thick but its my first time seeing this

 

[Starfire669]

today i caught one of my tuffed geese lay its first egg of the year! I saw it being layed and i thought what the ****! Look at the size of it! When she left i grabbed the egg and try to crack it but it was hard as a golf ball!when i cracked it the shell was extremly thick but its my first time seeing this

Is that a grapefruit next to it? That is 1 large egg, poor goose!

 

[livininbrazil]

Ok, my goslings are 7 weeks old. One has a bad case of angel wing that I have been wrapping. I leave the wrap on for 3 days and take off because of their growth, I'm worried about cutting of circulation to his wings. His left wing is much improved but his right wing flops out as soon as the vet wrap is removed. None of the others show signs of angel wing. What am I doing wrong that his wing won't set right?
Also, when geese lay do you put them on laying feed like a chicken or just have a bucket of calcium available?

The wing flops out, or is it just the feathers growing funny?