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

[Marty1876]

I have 6 buffs and 2 gray dewlaps due yesterday-sunday, if you allow the variable hatch day count. Looks like 2 buffs and 1 gray have failed to tip at all, and I see no movement. Everyone else, including wonky cell, are cruising toward hatch, working beaks withen, but no internal pips yet.

Luna is sitting here with me (in my shirt) while I try to remember what I was doing when I last paid any attention to my babies. I moved the poor khakis who were all crammed into a tiny box into a bigger brooder today. The remaining two americanas and one single BCM are well and healthy too, but I lost all of my blue quail belgian d'anvers and the button quails. They were little, and needed special attention, which I simply failed to give them, the poor little things. I'm glad the goslings are just now starting.

Its good to see everyone again.

 

[Iain Utah]

Good morning.... none of my dewlaps have hatched yet. Wonky air cell is looking the best in terms of textbook pipping and working on shell. I have been waiting for egg #1 to finish hatching, playing the wait and see if he can do it on his own. Hubby woke me at 3am thinking it needed help, so I opened a small cradle to swap membrane. Not stuck... no shrink wrap (YAY!)... the membrane is gunky but the veins were almost completely gone. Since he did not appear in trouble, I put him back into bator to wait for zipping signals. Eggs #2 & #4 are also tracking the same pip pattern as egg #1, but I have not touched them yet.

I plan to give it another couple of hours and if no progress, then I will finish hatching them out by hand, seeing that it has been 36 hours since eggs 1 & 2 externally pipped.

Egg #5 never externally pipped.

 

[Marty1876]

Hi Iain, glad your babies are coming along, and hopefully they hurry and wrap it up before long.

I have my first external pip on a buff dewlap now, and the other from batch one is internally pipped. Batch two was set the next day, and 3 appear to be working on internally pipping now.

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, at this rate, your dewlaps will hatch before mine!

 

[psue]

Marty, at this rate, your dewlaps will hatch before mine!

Hatch Racing

Gotta love it!

 

[Hatty1]

How exciting, I wish you all the best for your hatch. I shall be watching this thread for your news :0).

 

[Iain Utah]

Well, I have begun helping egg #1. His head and wing were glued to the inside of inner membrane by this weird gunk that reminds me of rubber cement. He seems happier now.

Eggs #2 & 3 are moving along on their own. Egg #4 who is a bit behind is working away on its own too. I have not check on egg #5 as I am not willing to waste precious steam to open bator for it.

 

[Marty1876]

I have two external pips from buffs right now, and the others havn't done anything that I know of yet.

Come on Iains babies! Go go go!

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, I am pretty sure that the early external pippers here were actually internally pipping. It has been 48 hours since my 1st 2 externally pipped and they are only now beginning zipping mode. I also noticed that the 1st egg that had lost 14% had sticky gunk. But egg #2 that had lost 16% does not. Cannot see well enough yet into the other 2 eggs yet to see if they have sticky problems, but as they are in no hurry, neither am I.

 

[Iain Utah]

FINALLY.... egg #2 is 1/4 rotated, zipping away. All unassisted! Egg #3 looks to be trying to rotate, also unassisted. Egg #1 is doing well, but may continue to need help. I'm not sure yet if Egg #4 will need help as it is a few hours behind the others.

I checked out egg #5 and it was a pretzel. Think I was too late, but at least having seen it before, I knew exactly how to pull head out without damaging yolk or removing too much shell. It was not stiff, so I put it back into bator in case it springs to life.