Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[Pyxis]

Put my new eggs in the incubator yesterday! Ordered five but two were cracked. One was way too bad to even try to hatch so I tossed it. The other I couldn't tell if the goop on it was from the other cracked egg or it so I patched it with a candle and tossed it in to see what happens. They should have been insured so I'm trying to get the PO to pay for them. We'll see. In the meantime I ordered two more eggs to try to up my odds of having more than one hatchling and the person I'm ordering from said they're gonna try to add in some extras this time to make up for the broken ones, which is really nice.

 

[Pyxis]

My gooses egg hasn't pipped yet and now its day 32 how long til the air sac is out of oxygen it's been in the air sac for 3 days and its still alive but i want this one to live do u think its building up its energy for pipping

I don't have too much hatcing experience with goslings yet, this is my first year doing it, but I had something like what you're describing happen to me. All my healthy goslings were externally pipping within a day of internally pipping, but I had one that didn't pip for three days. I got worried and very carefully pipped for him. Then he didn't zip, so after a few days I carefully did that too. Well, it turns out he had a terrible yolk infection and he didn't make it. It smelled really awful in there. If I hadn't pipped for him, I often wonder if he would just have never pipped and quit. That might have been the kinder thing for him. Anyway, like I said, I don't have too much experience, this is just what happened to me, and your gosling could be perfectly fine in there. Hopefully a more experience hatcher will chime in

 

[servpolice]

Nate just make a little hole where the beak is located in the aircell and make it big enough so that you can see the beak move and so it can have oxygen

 

[servpolice]

Your goose breed is chinese and they take about 32-34 so dont worry but do make that small hole (it doesnt effect anything with the hatching so thats why i most of the time make a hole in the egg so i can see that they are moving and so that they have oxygen and a lot of goslings die in the egg because they can't externel pip so they die of lack of oxygen!)
So thats why i and i assume more people make little hole so they can have oxygen and relax
hoped it helped

 

[servpolice]

I do this with my African goslings because i hate to see a baby die of lack of O2 (And here the African breed isnt common so i get paranoided if i dont see the egg move so i make a hole so i can see the beak move :/ )

 

[Nyssa03]

I do this with my African goslings because i hate to see a baby die of lack of O2 (And here the African breed isnt common so i get paranoided if i dont see the egg move so i make a hole so i can see the beak move

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Are you able to make the hole very small and therefore not worry about the "shrink-wrap" thing -- or can that happen anyway???

 

[servpolice]

I never ever had shrink wrap when i make a breathing hole.
And i make the hole as big as the goslings beak so that the gosling can kinda poke its beak out a bit

 

[servpolice]

In fact i never had shrink wrap in general

 

[ChickDancer]

Are you able to make the hole very small and therefore not worry about the "shrink-wrap" thing -- or can that happen anyway???

When I make "safety holes" like this, I use a 22-gauge needle that I got from Tractor Supply. But when you do it, be warned that it WILL make the needle's tip bend, so it will be unusable for injections after that. However, it will still be strong enough to continue to make small holes, and the bent end can later be used as a "hook" to gently remove more shell, or the membrane if needed. So just keep that 22-Gauge needle around, and keep using it for this purpose. If you use it to help a sick chick and want to sterilize it afterwards, just boil it for 3 minutes, then cool it in a mug of rubbing alcohol. Let it dry completely before using it again.

 

[Pyxis]

I just have to say, the seller I got my eggs from is awesome. I ordered two more eggs and her geese laid one egg today and stopped laying. So she offered to refund me for the two eggs and send just the one for free! Very pleased with her, she has been so great.

Also, I hatched two ducklings with feathered legs! They both have leg feathers, the male more than the female. I'm gonna hang on to them. I'm sure it's considered a fault, but I think it's interesting.