Hands on hatching and help

[jenniferlamar70]

Anyone here have experience with goose eggs?

 

[suebee]

Hello everyone! I wanted to share how things were going with the 23 shipped eggs from RubyNala97! Out of 23 sent, only one was a dud. I put 14 in my two Brinsea mini advance incubators and the remaining 8 under a silkie broody in my coop. She pooped on 4 eggs and even after cleaning them gently with a dry cloth she wouldn't sit on them so I traded her 4 clean eggs from the incubator. Two days ago i made her get off the nest to poop and eat and I found one egg flattened and demolished. I really think a roo or another hen got in the nest box and damaged the egg, not her. There was a chick in the remains and only 5 days before they were due to hatch. So that left 21 developing eggs. One of my incubators started smelling funky and found a poopy egg I had swapped from her was rotten and oozing so I threw it out. So 20 eggs left with 3 days left to go! Lockdown starts tomorrow evening so it's starting to get exciting now.

 

[Pyxis]

Anyone here have experience with goose eggs?

I do! You thinking of doing some? It's past the season so you're not likely to find any this year.

And happy birthday!

 

[WVduckchick]

Anyone here have experience with goose eggs?

@casportpony or @Pyxis come to mind first for me, but I'm not positive. I think geese hatch alot like ducks and peachicks though.

Hello everyone! I wanted to share how things were going with the 23 shipped eggs from RubyNala97! Out of 23 sent, only one was a dud. I put 14 in my two Brinsea mini advance incubators and the remaining 8 under a silkie broody in my coop. She pooped on 4 eggs and even after cleaning them gently with a dry cloth she wouldn't sit on them so I traded her 4 clean eggs from the incubator. Two days ago i made her get off the nest to poop and eat and I found one egg flattened and demolished. I really think a roo or another hen got in the nest box and damaged the egg, not her. There was a chick in the remains and only 5 days before they were due to hatch. So that left 21 developing eggs. One of my incubators started smelling funky and found a poopy egg I had swapped from her was rotten and oozing so I threw it out. So 20 eggs left with 3 days left to go! Lockdown starts tomorrow evening so it's starting to get exciting now.

Nice! Good luck

 

[Pyxis]

One of these days I'm really going to post pictures of the keets, lol. I'm going to try to get some tonight. They are so cute. I'm still torn on whether the royal purple one is royal purple or just pearl pied so hopefully someone will be able to help me there.

I also have to lock down two peafowl eggs and some WH eggs tonight. Two of the WH eggs will be going to my broody pekin whose eggs didn't hatch. I'm hoping she'll be a good mom. She's a super broody but as far as I know has never raised ducklings.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

I do! You thinking of doing some? It's past the season so you're not likely to find any this year.

And happy birthday!

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I stumbled across 2 Sebastopol eggs and purchased them from ebay. Like you said end of the season so their were only 4 left and they were asking 20 dollars an egg. I've wanted goose eggs all season but waited to long so I jumped on these. Now I'm worried knowing how shipped eggs are plus not having experience with them...

@casportpony or @Pyxis come to mind first for me, but I'm not positive. I think geese hatch alot like ducks and peachicks though.
Nice! Good luck

Ok thanks for the help.

 

[Pyxis]

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I stumbled across 2 Sebastopol eggs and purchased them from ebay. Like you said end of the season so their were only 4 left and they were asking 20 dollars an egg. I've wanted goose eggs all season but waited to long so I jumped on these. Now I'm worried knowing how shipped eggs are plus not having experience with them...

Good luck with them! I hope they both hatch for you and not just one - they are extremely social and it's going to be really hard to find another gosling this year to be a lone hatchling's friend - not even the hatcheries are selling them any longer

Let me know if you need any help, the waterfowl incubation guide in the goose section is extremely helpful, I would suggest following it. Weigh the eggs to assess weight loss and don't forget to mist and cool them each day once that starts up.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Good luck with them! I hope they both hatch for you and not just one - they are extremely social and it's going to be really hard to find another gosling this year to be a lone hatchling's friend - not even the hatcheries are selling them any longer

Let me know if you need any help, the waterfowl guide in the goose section is extremely helpful, I would suggest following it. Weigh the eggs to assess weight loss and don't forget to mist and cool them each day once that starts up.

Do you think they can keep company with the ducks if only one hatches? That's what I was hoping for. Of coarse I hope both hatch but want to have a plan if one doesn't.

 

[rossfam06]

@RubyNala97

So....what do streamers look like??

 

[Pyxis]

Do you think they can keep company with the ducks if only one hatches? That's what I was hoping for. Of coarse I hope both hatch but want to have a plan if one doesn't.

They can but they mature more slowly than ducks so you'd want to have a duckling hatch scheduled for the same time as the gosling hatch so they would at least be the same age. And then when you can get another goose, go ahead and do it because they are much happier with a companion of their own species