Here we go again - I'm hatching more goslings!!

[Marty1876]

I havn't seen any rocking ever on an egg except after pip. (sigh)

Here is todays pic, I have the egg upright for the photo.

 

[Marty1876]

 

[JulieNKC]

It was the calm before the storm, so to speak...because IT PIPPED!!!!

Yay!!! Look at it now!

I havn't seen any rocking ever on an egg except after pip. (sigh)

Here is todays pic, I have the egg upright for the photo.

Are yours in a turner? My turkeys rocked for over a week, my ducks usually start it up on day 21. Maybe the one's I incubate are just jerks and like rocking because it makes me more impatient.

 

[Iain Utah]

Weird, Marty.... I'm with Julie. I usually start seeing rocking about a week before hatch. When you candle the egg horizontally, do you see shadows like in the pic I showed you before?

 

[Marty1876]

Are yours in a turner? My turkeys rocked for over a week, my ducks usually start it up on day 21. Maybe the one's I incubate are just jerks and like rocking because it makes me more impatient.

No, not the goose eggs. Even in all this time hatching ducks (which are in turners) i've never seen one rock. Maybe they just don't like me.

Weird, Marty.... I'm with Julie. I usually start seeing rocking about a week before hatch. When you candle the egg horizontally, do you see shadows like in the pic I showed you before?

No shadows that I can see. Nada. When I hold the egg, I sorta feel some of them moving a bit. Now, to be fair, I never stand and stare at them. They probobly just wait until I turn my back. I knows it and others are alive, for I can still see veins at the pointy end, and occasional motion, but like I said, I don't just wait around.

Darn it Darn it Darn it! Cooperate, eggs! Agh!

 

[JulieNKC]

No, not the goose eggs. Even in all this time hatching ducks (which are in turners) i've never seen one rock. Maybe they just don't like me.

No shadows that I can see. Nada. When I hold the egg, I sorta feel some of them moving a bit. Now, to be fair, I never stand and stare at them. They probobly just wait until I turn my back. I knows it and others are alive, for I can still see veins at the pointy end, and occasional motion, but like I said, I don't just wait around.

Darn it Darn it Darn it! Cooperate, eggs! Agh!

Well, there's your problem. I'll catch one moving out of the corner of my eye when I'm turning them (no turner, so takes me awhile). Then I sit there and stare at them until I see a few more wobbles so I know I'm not seeing things, lol.

 

[Marty1876]

Well, there's your problem. I'll catch one moving out of the corner of my eye when I'm turning them (no turner, so takes me awhile). Then I sit there and stare at them until I see a few more wobbles so I know I'm not seeing things, lol.

I've only got 6 (oh, 5 now) goose eggs, and 6 muscovies I'm hand turning. I'm done in under a minute. 3x daily. I just hope they get here. I'll be so bummed if they died on me yesterday when the bator was off a few hours.

 

[Chikn-Chik]

Update! Ok, so I had to moisten the baby againand now he's opening and closing his mouth. The yolk still hasn't fully absorbed and he is also moving around and pushing against the shell.

 

[Marty1876]

Do you think my baby isn't going to hatch? I mean, it is my first goose egg, but what could I have done wrong here?

 

[JulieNKC]

I've only got 6 (oh, 5 now) goose eggs, and 6 muscovies I'm hand turning. I'm done in under a minute. 3x daily. I just hope they get here. I'll be so bummed if they died on me yesterday when the bator was off a few hours.

I've had broodies get off the nest for hours, or sit on the wrong one overnight even, and they've all hatched 100% under them from non shipped eggs. I don't think the 4 hours killed them, just maybe set them back a little.