hatching geese eggs

[gofasterstripe]

Dont you just love baby geese, they are like those squidgy things you roll round in your hand, a bit like a stress ball. Ducklings arent as squidgy but geese stress balls, nothing better

 

[Balbinka]

Yes... stress balls... that create stress LOL
I love them! They are definitely more smooshy than ducklings and chickens.

 

[gofasterstripe]

smooshy, thats the word I was looking for. As for stress...You wouldnt have it any other way tho would you

 

[Balbinka]

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Nope! Haha

 

[pete55]

Hi All

Had a surprise last night to find 3 Dewlap eggs had drop-down on their air cells and started back shadowing (day 25). These are from a new 2010 Canadian female mated to our Holderread male

Hoping to find the shadows are increased when I check tonight and approaching internal pipping.

These 3 have played it by the text book and had excellent air cell develoment so Im hoping for a result but there's a little way to go yet

Pete

 

[gofasterstripe]

Good Luck Pete. We are all rooting for you.

 

[bookerdog]

pete55 Good luck I hope everything turns out well.

I just put 22 pilgrims in lockdown this morning.

I found something interesting on my egg 7 in the last lockdown. When I pulled it the other day and candled nothing was moving. So anyway cracked it open and there was 2 goslings in the egg dead. They were pretty well developed.

 

[gofasterstripe]

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Oh wow they made it so far. Now that would of been a nice surprise to get up to in the morning. 7 egg shells and 8 babies. Mother Nature doing her best by the sounds of it.

 

[mimisgoose]

Can anyone help me? I am new to the forum but am very concerned about my goose eggs. Mother goose died recently and was sitting on 8 eggs. I am down to 6 now. I have them in incubator, but two days ago I heard one peeping, and it was actually rolling around. Since then NOTHING. I am soooooo worried!!!!!!!!!! I have had them in the incubator for 24 days, but dont know how long she had them in the nest. She had just started laying them, and was not on the nest much. Any advise????????

 

[cracking up]

You should look at the Post by pete55 called 'exhibition Toulouse" but in the meantime candle and bump up the humidity a bunch. Put them in the incubator with the large side of the air cell facing up and try to angle them so the big end is raised.

Pete has so much information it's really a great thread.

Good luck - I hope someone else comes along with more experience (I've hatched about ten but this is my first year hatching them)