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

[psue]

Best of luck hatching your gosling, Sue!!

lost it.. should have helped sooner or knew a whole lot more. It was good practice though.

Went outside to check the girls this morning, and low and behold one of the 1st yr brooders either 1. new the baby was dead and cracked it open cause the shell is missing or 2. someone stepped on it while shuffling the eggs and busted it ....but there right outside the nest was a poor dead gosling...the are not due yet not until the next wk or so...but the poor thing had its little webbed feet and feathers....

It was sad!!! It would have been a gray

That does make me feel better, celtic. But not about the baby.. Poor baby... She must be getting to hot in the barn because every day she is moving all of them closer to the door. Straw and all. Good looking nest, but man that has to be alot of work. They have to be getting close to hatch time with the development of that baby..

If anymore get broken though I will kidnap the remaining eggs and then ya'll will have to walk me through the hatching.....oh my!!! I would be like a toddler...keep you posted!!

poor goose.. that is alot of work!

 

[Marty1876]

PSue sorry you lost your baby, a weak one is hard to begin with.

Celtic - I guess by early may we'll plan on grass and I'm trying to get our purina guy to get that MZ.... food you use. Its not commen here yet. If I can't get it, I'll PM you to inquire about your ideas on suitable substitutes. You are much more thoughfull than many goose feed sights and ideas seem to be. Most folks seem to choose "their brand" and offer it and whatever the birds can scrounge. I think I'd like to do a little better for them than that. I suppose what works for your babies will work for the other goslings that hopefully hatch here, once they are feathered out. I currently use morman special blended feeds from a morman community not far from here. They customize for the right percentages based on your animals and their stage of growth. They maybe an option if I can't get the other.

 

[Serenitybirds]

I just started my first hatch of dewlap Toulouse geese yesterday. I will be following along closely since I am a newby to geese. I have incubated chickens,ducks and turkeys now this. I am becoming an addict to incubation.

 

[Iain Utah]

I'm sorry, Sue, but I agree 100% that it was good practice.

Serenity, congrats!!!! Where did you get your eggs?? Are they grey or buff?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi, would you mind looking at this post and see if you can advise please.. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/656837/help-please-gosling-peeping-in-shell-for-24-hours

 

[Marty1876]

Wow, a day without posts???

How is everyone? Did you close up the bators and toss the geese out into the fields or what?

Personally, I'm gonna be candling again soon. Some egg (goose or duck) in a bator is smelling like the north end of a southbound skunk.

 

[jerryford]

Wow, a day without posts???

How is everyone? Did you close up the bators and toss the geese out into the fields or what?

Personally, I'm gonna be candling again soon. Some egg (goose or duck) in a bator is smelling like the north end of a southbound skunk.

we just walk inside and Paulla is candling embden now so no need to feel alone any longer

 

[Marty1876]

Yay! I guess I'm halfway through now my current goose hatch! I've got still in the running 2 giant toulouse (probobly grey) from Erin, 7 buff giant toulouse dewlap (!!!) and 2 grey giant toulouse dewlap. Remember the six eggs a lady I bought eggs from accidentlally shipped me the day after shipping my order?(Ians friend Carolle?) Well, I ordered 4 buffs, and she sent an extra. The next day she shipped me (accidentally) 4 more buffs and 2 greys! LOL So I've got 11 goose eggs halfway there, and I'm as happy as a fat rat in a cheese factory. Oh, and I'm getting this weeks sebbie eggs from a lady here that Celtic got eggs from. I got myself on the end of the list a week or two ago, and she's still laying, so 3 more sebbies maybe!

 

[JulieNKC]

Yay! I guess I'm halfway through now my current goose hatch! I've got still in the running 2 giant toulouse (probobly grey) from Erin, 7 buff giant toulouse dewlap (!!!) and 2 grey giant toulouse dewlap. Remember the six eggs a lady I bought eggs from accidentlally shipped me the day after shipping my order?(Ians friend Carolle?) Well, I ordered 4 buffs, and she sent an extra. The next day she shipped me (accidentally) 4 more buffs and 2 greys! LOL So I've got 11 goose eggs halfway there, and I'm as happy as a fat rat in a cheese factory. Oh, and I'm getting this weeks sebbie eggs from a lady here that Celtic got eggs from. I got myself on the end of the list a week or two ago, and she's still laying, so 3 more sebbies maybe!

Tomorrow will be day 25 on mine. Starting to get more and more nervous the closer I get. I haven't had any problems incubating geese, but haven't had any hatch yet so I hope this guy(GIRL) doesn't have any problems.

 

[jerryford]

Yay! I guess I'm halfway through now my current goose hatch! I've got still in the running 2 giant toulouse (probobly grey) from Erin, 7 buff giant toulouse dewlap (!!!) and 2 grey giant toulouse dewlap. Remember the six eggs a lady I bought eggs from accidentlally shipped me the day after shipping my order?(Ians friend Carolle?) Well, I ordered 4 buffs, and she sent an extra. The next day she shipped me (accidentally) 4 more buffs and 2 greys! LOL So I've got 11 goose eggs halfway there, and I'm as happy as a fat rat in a cheese factory. Oh, and I'm getting this weeks sebbie eggs from a lady here that Celtic got eggs from. I got myself on the end of the list a week or two ago, and she's still laying, so 3 more sebbies maybe!

sound like yours is going great we may have lost one of 7 embden eggs Paulla will check it again in a bit