Incubating Chicken eggs with Goose eggs.

[muscovy94]

Before everyone tells me that I shouldn't incubate them together, I have to. I only have one incubator. Ok so the story is... Right as we were about to leave for town our neighbor comes riding up our driveway on the four wheeler and we were thinking "crap! we need to leave" but right as i was about to tell him we needed to leave he shows me the goose eggs and explained to me that he was asked to get these from a lake and dispose of them, because the lake's goose population was too high, but instead he brought them to me!!!!! Yay!!! SO happy!! Don't know if they are wild goose eggs or domestic goose eggs (doubt he knows the difference, lol) Anyways... I have to incubate them in the only incubator I have. Its just right now they currenlty have silkie eggs in there. I have to incubate them together. there is no way getting around that, but I know that waterfowl eggs need a higher humidity than chicken eggs. My question is, do I set the humidity in the incubator to accomodate the goose eggs or the silkie eggs? Do I Need to make it higher for the goose eggs or regular for the chicken eggs?

Thanks.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Well I can tell you that I just hatched out 40 chicken eggs successfully with high humidity (65%) with goose eggs. I had 100% hatch rate with the chicken eggs.

I hatched out Polish, OEGB's, and bantam Cochin with my goose eggs. No drowning chicks at all. So it can be done.

Good luck!

Laurie

 

[kelseygirl707]

I've never hatched goose eggs (Yet

) but I do hatch chicken eggs with duck eggs all the time. I set the humidity for the duck eggs, and the chicken eggs have always been fine. Good Luck

 

[NapoleanGoose]

I've never done it so I don't know how well incubating chickens and goose eggs works, but it's hard to say how much humitidy the goose eggs need unless you know the breed? Some breed like Chinese and African need enormous amounts of water when hatched, where as some need less then what many places already have in the air this time of the year and others dont need any additional water to hatch. I, too, would love to try incuabating both and may end up doing it pretty quick here so I'm glad to know that other people have done it successfully. I have too many eggs and not enough incubators!

Good luck though!

-Sierra

 

[MrsCountryChick]

Don't forget to open the incubator for 10-15 min & mist spray the eggs each day, goose eggs require that.

 

[Lund121671]

I incubate Everything together and have no problems. I keep a humidity of around 55% then up towards 70% during hatch. I only pull out the eggs and mist every few days and really never let them cool. so far 2 years and no problems

 

[roboboy]

When you have an incubator the size of a small closet like ours, it would be absurd to only hatch one type of bird at a time or to have different incubators going. Every year, we incubate and hatch together chickens, pheasants, ducks, and geese. I don't actually pay attention to humidity, I just make sure the water tray is filled every morning and evening when we turn eggs, and we usually keep a jug of extra water on the bottom of the incubator. We normally have good hatches.

 

[roboboy]

When you have an incubator the size of a small closet like ours, it would be absurd to only hatch one type of bird at a time or to have different incubators going. Every year, we incubate and hatch together chickens, pheasants, ducks, and geese. I don't actually pay attention to humidity, I just make sure the water tray is filled every morning and evening when we turn eggs, and we usually keep a jug of extra water on the bottom of the incubator. We normally have good hatches.

Huh.. that's weird why did this post twice? Must have been a glitch in my internet or something... can this be deleted, please? Thank You.