It's good to candle the eggs before placing them in the incubator, especially shipped eggs. Look for detached air cells, hairline cracks, and scrambled eggs.
I kind of journaled my hatch on here on another thread, it was my first time with goose eggs and they are Sebastopol, I’m on day 28 with 3/3 alive still. I started weighing on day 7 same time I started cooling and misting and stopped cooling and misting on day 26 and weighing helped me so much during the hatch I did it everyday after cooling before I misted everyday when their weight went down a little it encouraged me that they were still developing. I kept my humidity low since research showed that curly feathers on these geese actually make it harder for these birds to hold humidity so I was trying to replicate the bird, so I did dryer incubation but put a little water in the reservoir at night to replicate it getting wetter/dewey at night So like 25% humidity daytime and 35-40% night. I’m no expert by far but that’s just kind of my two cents.
The farmer across the road is incubating some kind of Chinese geese eggs. She has to take the lid off three times a day to turn them, so she would do the misting when she's doing that, whenever she's supposed to. I know she's not taking the eggs out.
