Hi, guys! 
I'm still very new to BYC, so if you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it!
So let me just paint this picture. I have only hatched one egg before in my life and that one in itself was a miracle. We had a real incubator back then and he was a rescued egg from parents that were killed, so he was an emergency, thrown-together sort of hatching. But he turned out to be a beautiful, healthy gosling!
Well, four years later, it's happened again.
My parents were not too happy when I found the egg abandoned next to the murder site of two parents and their nest and I feigned like I didn't have interest, but when my mom grew soft and said "We can't just leave it out here to die, let's try and save the poor thing if we can," I was secretly like:
My parents don't want to pay money for another incubator (the first one was borrowed and never returned by a neighbor that moved away not that long ago), but they said they would possibly consider it. But for now, I've been left to try and experiment with making my own incubator. I should have just started storing the egg instead of going ahead and "incubating" it, but when I candled it, I thought for sure it was like 1/3 of the way through embryonic development, but further research has definitely indicated that this egg had not even started its incubation yet. Now I'm too scared to store it because I'm afraid I might have already started, but I'm not entirely sure.
I don't have a thermometer or hydrometer, so I'm just sort of hoping I'm accurate, but I would love some advice!
So what I did was take a shoebox and I padded it down with one of my oldest swim towels. Then, I used a desk lamp and replaced the bulb with one that was 60 watts. Then I pointed it over the box and placed a wet towel beneath it for the humidity. I placed plastic wrap over the other half of the box to contain the heat and humidity and I put the egg in there. I followed those instructions from google and I've done it for about 48 hours now, but I have no idea if it's working. The egg's warm, just not sure how warm, if you know what I'm saying.
So please let me know what I'm doing wrong or right. If you have any other common household items that can be used to improve this, I would greatly appreciate it! Oh! And if you could give me tips about candling and what to look for, that would be great! I know it's still way too early to tell, but I'm afraid I'm doing this all in vain but I really hope I can have another gosling experience! Because if this guy doesn't make it, that's it, unless I find another abandoned egg and chances of that are very low. Please share your expertise!! Thanks! 
Also, this is last night's candling, but it basically looks the same from what I can tell with my amateurish eyes. I know that it's way early, but if you could give me a walkthrough or something that would be great! Thank you!!
I'm still very new to BYC, so if you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it! So let me just paint this picture. I have only hatched one egg before in my life and that one in itself was a miracle. We had a real incubator back then and he was a rescued egg from parents that were killed, so he was an emergency, thrown-together sort of hatching. But he turned out to be a beautiful, healthy gosling!
Well, four years later, it's happened again.
My parents don't want to pay money for another incubator (the first one was borrowed and never returned by a neighbor that moved away not that long ago), but they said they would possibly consider it. But for now, I've been left to try and experiment with making my own incubator. I should have just started storing the egg instead of going ahead and "incubating" it, but when I candled it, I thought for sure it was like 1/3 of the way through embryonic development, but further research has definitely indicated that this egg had not even started its incubation yet. Now I'm too scared to store it because I'm afraid I might have already started, but I'm not entirely sure.
I don't have a thermometer or hydrometer, so I'm just sort of hoping I'm accurate, but I would love some advice!
So what I did was take a shoebox and I padded it down with one of my oldest swim towels. Then, I used a desk lamp and replaced the bulb with one that was 60 watts. Then I pointed it over the box and placed a wet towel beneath it for the humidity. I placed plastic wrap over the other half of the box to contain the heat and humidity and I put the egg in there. I followed those instructions from google and I've done it for about 48 hours now, but I have no idea if it's working. The egg's warm, just not sure how warm, if you know what I'm saying.
So please let me know what I'm doing wrong or right. If you have any other common household items that can be used to improve this, I would greatly appreciate it!
Oh! And if you could give me tips about candling and what to look for, that would be great! I know it's still way too early to tell, but I'm afraid I'm doing this all in vain but I really hope I can have another gosling experience! Because if this guy doesn't make it, that's it, unless I find another abandoned egg and chances of that are very low. Please share your expertise!! Thanks! Also, this is last night's candling, but it basically looks the same from what I can tell with my amateurish eyes.
I know that it's way early, but if you could give me a walkthrough or something that would be great! Thank you!!
It's clear except for one dark mass that moves when I rotate the egg, but I'm pretty sure that it's just the yolk. 
