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

[Iain Utah]

Thanks, Marty!!! I am beyond relieved that it is done!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, did you candle the dewlaps??!?!?!

Oh... and fyi... I had another great talk with Jim this afternoon about my hatchlings, as one looks very different from the other two, and I was curious about that. He said that they run a flock of 30 buffs and collect the eggs from different geese for each package, to guarantee that the sets sent are unrelated.

I have 1 boy and 2 girls!!

We also talked about different bators for hatching, and he insisted I check out brinsea because it is far superior over hovabators (which is superior over LGs).

 

[igotgoosed]

Yay, Goose!!!! Congrats on another beautiful baby!!!!

Thanks!

 

[igotgoosed]

This is so off topic but I just have to vent for a sec! So, we have wood siding on our house, and about 3 weeks ago a squirrel construction crew started a new job chewing in to our wall. The work would commence at daylight and end in the afternoon. This must have been the lazy crew, always done early...Anyways, it appears as though they were building a nursery/daycare for the starling family that has recently moved in and is now raising a family in there. Peeps all day long! gahhhh

 

[Iain Utah]

LOL Goosed. Sorry about that.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Updates


All buff saddleback Pomeranians hatched unassisted and are outside in the brooder house full time

Erin- candled the eggs tonight, still pretty sloshy, no development. One looks like it could though. So will recheck Friday night to see if anything shows. Been thinking since you live where it snows and the grass does off, what do your geese eat both in off season, over the winter, prepping for breeding season and breeding season? Wondering if diet may effect fertility/mortality with shipping. Just thinking outloud, but I obcess over feed for ours so it made me think about these eggs we are testing.

Hubby picked up a box today for me. It was our Buff Dewlaps! Got 6 eggs total, 4 brand spankin new and so fresh the air cells were very small. 2 were 6 days old today. All packed with a heat pack, so no resting them over night since we are mid 80's here and they were warm on arrival.

We have 12-14 goose eggs for lockdown this weekend.

Baby is doing better, I am beyond sick thanks to the kids sharing the germs. Settled into my lungs so I am doing very little customer calls and lots of emails.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Iain you can never ever go wrong with a Brinsea. We had 4 running 24/7 before the cabinet. We still use two now. The Eco 20 advanced is a great unit. The turner is on the outside, you set the entire case on it to turn and can remove as needed without messing with the eggs. The 20's can hold 24 standard eggs at a time, maybe 8-9 goose eggs.

They have an auto pump for humidity as well. The advanced models have temp and humidity read outs on them also all digital.

There is also the Eco 40 (longer not wider) to set more eggs at a time. Has all the same features available.

They clean easier too since they are 100% molded plastic.

Brinsea makes wonderful cabinets as well, they are very pricey though.

I call the octagon models a set and forget fool proof bator because they make it so easy to have high hatch rates. I repeatedly had 90-100% call duck hatches using them.

We use a Dickey cabinet along with the Brinsea models. Highly reccomend both brands after much use.

 

[Marty1876]

This is so off topic but I just have to vent for a sec! So, we have wood siding on our house, and about 3 weeks ago a squirrel construction crew started a new job chewing in to our wall. The work would commence at daylight and end in the afternoon. This must have been the lazy crew, always done early...Anyways, it appears as though they were building a nursery/daycare for the starling family that has recently moved in and is now raising a family in there. Peeps all day long! gahhhh

Oh, I so understand!!! I live in an centrury (+) home, and its all wood siding. We spent the better part of last fall trying to figure out how the squirrels were getting into the attic, they had knock down squick and shout drag outs every night, late late late. AGH!

Oh, and on our honeymoon, we rented a cabin for a week at lake of the ozarks. It was a little thing, you know the honeymoon cabin thing, and after we were there for 2 days, some sparrows hatched babies on top of the AC unit. When it clicken on or off, they fussed. It was July, so they fussed a lot. It was kind of charming though, because the name of our cabin was the sparrows nest. Boy, I can see why!!

 

[erijn5]

Erin, all three look very fertile, in that it has the dark blood red ring in center of egg (which is tell tale sign of development in upright, damaged air cell eggs). Am looking to see if the veining will show up in the upper clear liquid area now. If it will happen, I'll see it within the next 48 hours.

I'm not sure why your air cells are still damaged when you packaged them so well!! I wonder if googling nutrition or something like that for producing eggs would shed some light? Also, if they are 1st/2nd year birds, that may explain some of the problems?

The buff is 4yrs, the rest are 5yrs. And then we kept 3 of the greys with buff genes, they are 1 1/2yr. They are broody this yr...

Those are the ones I don't want to scare off the nest... When I go out there they just hissssss...it makes me laugh...If they get off and I catch this wkend I'm going to sneak in there and do count!

 

[Marty1876]

I wouldn't mind having a brinsea, but they are kind of costly.