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

[Marty1876]

Oh, I hope you can save pretzel baby!

Glad to hear otheres are proceeding, with or without assistance. Luna hatched from pip to freedom in under 5 hours. The others are looking to be taking much longer

 

[psue]

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.

you have some doing all the work for you this time!

for pretzel baby

 

[Iain Utah]

Egg #2 is out! He rotated the full way on his own, but could not push the cap off as the outer membrane was very tough. Also had some sticky inner membrane, So, with a teeny amount of help, he is hatched.

Opened eggs 3 and 4 and both had sticky crap so I swabbed them up and got them unstuck. Pretzel passed before I opened egg up. But the other 3 should hatch ok in the next few hours.

 

[bayyjayy]

I am so excited for you, Iain!!!! This is so fun watching your post, though I was sad about Pretzel......was hoping for a better outcome. I am still lurking here watching this post!!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks to all for following my final goose hatch of the year. Of course it has to be an assisted hatch, but at least the first baby pretty much made it out on it's own. It is now in post hatch brooder in bator room waiting for buddies.

egg #3, the one with wonky air cell and weird fluid on point shown in candling at lockdown, is out. Had to actually bathe it while hatching it. It has a teeny bulge at abdomen and is pretty kinked up. Hope it resolves itself.

Egg #1 is next. I expect I will also be giving this one a bathe while I hatch it as it too had a lot of fluid in pointy end when candling at lockdown. But otherwise should hatch out with no problem.

Egg #4 is chilling for now. It has a few hours before I start to hatch it out.

 

[Iain Utah]

My first grey dewlap baby:

 

[Iain Utah]

Babies 3 & 4 are out, and they both look like they will be fine. Baby #2's feet worry me, but it is full of spirit and try. Hope it is like duck hatchlings and the curled feet will work itself out over the next 12-24 hours. It is in brooder pen with the 1st baby and seems good otherwise.

It's over. Thank God!

 

[psue]

Babies 3 & 4 are out, and they both look like they will be fine. Baby #2's feet worry me, but it is full of spirit and try. Hope it is like duck hatchlings and the curled feet will work itself out over the next 12-24 hours. It is in brooder pen with the 1st baby and seems good otherwise.

It's over. Thank God!

Congrads!!!

What a learning year...Let's hope next year is more "hands off then hands on"

 

[Iain Utah]

Here's the first 2. You can sort of see the curled feet in it on baby #2. I have noticed over the last 8 hours, they have uncurled a little. He is otherwise very strong and will thrive if I can get him to uncurl his feet, which would be amazing considering how messed up the egg was from day 1.

Here are the last two. Big babies and doing well.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Morning all.

Happy mothers day

Iain congrats on the newest hatch. The gooey kinda rubber cement looking ooze (for lack of a better description) is usually a sign of too high of humidity. It's basically the opposit of shrink wrap for when you assess your incubating and make adjustments for the future.

Curled toes on goslings is sometimes very similar to ducks and they uncurl. However if they aren't flat by the next day you need to help correct the feet so the gosling is still young when the correction is being made.


Three more goslings halfway through hatching here. Had 3 of the last 4 hatch uneventfully, the fourth pipped, externally pipped, punched a hole then turned downward and suffocated.

Gonna set guinea fowl this next week in chocolate and Lavendar just because we haven't ever hatched them before.