I decided that I needed a goose or 5 to help alert me to issues with my Chickie-doos. My pyrs bark so much, and it’s never anything important, so I quit running to the window 8,000 times a day and night about 2 years ago. Geese should, from what I’ve read, be a more dependable alarm for issues.
So I ordered eggs, brown chinese geese, and of the 6, 2 weren’t fertile, 1 was scrambled inside, one only developed for a few days, and 1 stopped developing about 2 weeks ago, so only little Journey remains and should be hatching any day.
I’ve read and read and read, and I’ve watched every video I can find. I’ve got 4 more eggs in a different incubatorar as I type as well. (3 are developing - even a cracked one that I Frankensteined).
I’m at the “peel my own skin off” stage. <given my anxiety issues, all of this hatching was probably a very bad idea> It’s day 30 (He/she went in the incubator on the 1st after settling for 2 days), I’m terrified Journey will drown or smother. I literally sleep beside the incubators so I can monitor them like #1 Helicoptor Mom, and rigged up a constant candler so I can cheat/see him or her without opening the incubator. I AM NOT SURE IF MY NEW CHILD HAS INTERNALLY PIPPED <screaming and peeling skin>!!!! I am fairly certain he/she is still just pushing on the membrane, but if any of you would please help me make sure?!? There is a mark on the very tip of the shell, it is not a pip mark, Journey came to me with that mark, it’s been there since day one. Don’t laugh, I had to cover and tuck us into a huge heavy blanket to keep temps and humidity stable while I took this.
So I ordered eggs, brown chinese geese, and of the 6, 2 weren’t fertile, 1 was scrambled inside, one only developed for a few days, and 1 stopped developing about 2 weeks ago, so only little Journey remains and should be hatching any day.
I’ve read and read and read, and I’ve watched every video I can find. I’ve got 4 more eggs in a different incubatorar as I type as well. (3 are developing - even a cracked one that I Frankensteined).
I’m at the “peel my own skin off” stage. <given my anxiety issues, all of this hatching was probably a very bad idea> It’s day 30 (He/she went in the incubator on the 1st after settling for 2 days), I’m terrified Journey will drown or smother. I literally sleep beside the incubators so I can monitor them like #1 Helicoptor Mom, and rigged up a constant candler so I can cheat/see him or her without opening the incubator. I AM NOT SURE IF MY NEW CHILD HAS INTERNALLY PIPPED <screaming and peeling skin>!!!! I am fairly certain he/she is still just pushing on the membrane, but if any of you would please help me make sure?!? There is a mark on the very tip of the shell, it is not a pip mark, Journey came to me with that mark, it’s been there since day one. Don’t laugh, I had to cover and tuck us into a huge heavy blanket to keep temps and humidity stable while I took this.
