- Jun 6, 2011
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I'm monitoring a wild Canada Goose nest. Unfortunately, the other day something disturbed her so that there was an interruption in her incubation.
I checked on her in the morning, all was well, then came back 4.5 hours later to find her standing over her eggs. Something disturbed her that I was able to fix and she sat back on the eggs immediately.
She was into the 17th day of incubation. The air temp was 77 degrees, breezy, but the nest is in a planter, so it's recessed in the planter and probably sheltered from the breeze. The longest she could've been standing there was 4.5 hours, but it was probably less.
I touched the eggs and they were warm, but not super warm. I touched them later that night when she had been sitting for hours and they felt warmer than the first time, but the air temp at night was only 55 and my hands were exposed to the cold air for a couple of minutes before touching them, so the eggs could've felt warmer due to this temperature differential.
Any chance these eggs are still viable? I watch an owl cam where the owl left the eggs totally exposed in her owl box (no nesting materials around them) in 50-55 degrees for almost 2 hours about a week away from hatching and the babies hatched OK. I'm hoping the same could be true here, too.
Thanks for any feedback.
I checked on her in the morning, all was well, then came back 4.5 hours later to find her standing over her eggs. Something disturbed her that I was able to fix and she sat back on the eggs immediately.
She was into the 17th day of incubation. The air temp was 77 degrees, breezy, but the nest is in a planter, so it's recessed in the planter and probably sheltered from the breeze. The longest she could've been standing there was 4.5 hours, but it was probably less.
I touched the eggs and they were warm, but not super warm. I touched them later that night when she had been sitting for hours and they felt warmer than the first time, but the air temp at night was only 55 and my hands were exposed to the cold air for a couple of minutes before touching them, so the eggs could've felt warmer due to this temperature differential.
Any chance these eggs are still viable? I watch an owl cam where the owl left the eggs totally exposed in her owl box (no nesting materials around them) in 50-55 degrees for almost 2 hours about a week away from hatching and the babies hatched OK. I'm hoping the same could be true here, too.
Thanks for any feedback.