June Hatch A Long

[Kris5902]

Yes! I have one gosling that hatched last night! I'll have to run out to meet someone and I'll post pictures as soon as I'm back!

So cute! I really wanted to hatch out a neighbors goose eggs from an abandoned nest, which sort of prompted my latest hatch. Turns out two female geese can’t make goslings! Oops...

Here's another pic of orphan Spitzhauben chick hatched on heating pad. What do you all know about how to introduce to the hen and the other 3 chicks, now 2 days old? I plan to wait until it's fluffed out, and very active....it's calling out for mama.....
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Congratulations on the chick! It’s adorable, I’m sure you’ll be able to get it under and accepted by mom...clearly she’s been working on getting to be a mama for this long, she really wants those babies! Chickens can’t count

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So I didn't wait very long because I just had to know about egg #4 and it's probably a good thing I decided to step in because eggs #2 & #3 both pipped but the hole in the external membrane was VERY small. I enlarged it a bit and see now that it's pretty dry in there too so I'm going to monitor for a while because I don't think they're ready yet, as chick #1 took a loooong time to hatch after external pip. But! I feel better now that I know they're getting plenty of oxygen.
Egg #4 was no good, not sure when it happened because the chick was in position for hatching but breakdown had already begun probably a couple days ago at least.
On a more positive note, I'm in LOVE with chick #1 , I don't know how I'm going to give these goslings to my friend. lol!

 

[jolenesdad]

I don't know if I can manage getting in there at night. Last night they were in a back corner which I wouldn't be able to reach very well. Their pen, a partitioned off part of coop, is long and narrow and door is at one end.
Today is chilly. It's rainy and 60º, so there's a lot of huddle time happening. I'm thinking I really want to monitor the reactions. Moonshine is a dedicated mama, and she trusts me with her babies, I think I may risk doing it in daytime. Maybe behind her back. Baby will know what to do, and will slip right in.
For 2 yrs, this hen has gone broody every month in warm weather. I got so tired of going thru broody breaking, I thought it would be easier to let her hatch babies, lol. Little did I know!
Of course adding the 4th egg late was my own fault. But I was afraid that at least one of the others might have been sitting on the counter too long to hatch. #4 was laid that day that I popped it under the broody, still warm.

I have faith in moonshine. As long as you’re monitoring, I think I would go ahead and try it in the day if night will be difficult.

So cute! I really wanted to hatch out a neighbors goose eggs from an abandoned nest, which sort of prompted my latest hatch. Turns out two female geese can’t make goslings! Oops...



Congratulations on the chick! It’s adorable, I’m sure you’ll be able to get it under and accepted by mom...clearly she’s been working on getting to be a mama for this long, she really wants those babies! Chickens can’t count

Two female geese.

 

[Kris5902]

I have faith in moonshine. As long as you’re monitoring, I think I would go ahead and try it in the day if night will be difficult.


Two female geese.

Well we still aren’t 100% certain about their genders... I’m an optimist, but after a week of trying to run my incubator and heat plates off my limited solar, with no clear candling results, I opened them up and saw no signs of fertility.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Well, even though I almost never candle other than day 17, curiosity got the better of me again with these shipped eggs and I candled them again last night. Today is day 21, and they look more like day 15 embryos. Is it common for shipped eggs to be delayed? Rather worried here. Some did move, at least.

Oh wow! I’m incubating shipped eggs also so anxious to hear what others say!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Goosie number 1 hatched in the middle of the night last night and 2 of the other eggs still have small pips. I'm going to step in if I don't see any changes in the next couple of hours but that 4th egg has been unsettlingly still through all of lockdown. It was so dark in the eggs on my final candling that it's possible that one had passed before I actually put them on lockdown. As long as I get 2 so they're not lonely I'll be happy for a first-time goose hatch...but I don't like late development losses so I would prefer all 4 hatch!

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OMG, how darling is that gosling???!!! What breed are they?

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Y'all I'm so excited! My mystery chick has just hatched. I bought some guinea fowl hatching eggs from a guy and didn't carefully inspect each egg until I got home and discovered one egg was clearly a bantam egg. Pretty cream colored egg that was medium sized. Today is Day 19, and mystery chick just busted out of its shell. The little guy is pure black, with the exception of a thin white patch along the edge of the wing. Four toes, with feathering extending all the way down the toes. The little one is drying out and fluffing up in the incubator. I'll take a picture when s/he's dried off more

Wow! Your bantam will be quite the odd flockmate for your guineas!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I don't know if I can manage getting in there at night. Last night they were in a back corner which I wouldn't be able to reach very well. Their pen, a partitioned off part of coop, is long and narrow and door is at one end.
Today is chilly. It's rainy and 60º, so there's a lot of huddle time happening. I'm thinking I really want to monitor the reactions. Moonshine is a dedicated mama, and she trusts me with her babies, I think I may risk doing it in daytime. Maybe behind her back. Baby will know what to do, and will slip right in.
For 2 yrs, this hen has gone broody every month in warm weather. I got so tired of going thru broody breaking, I thought it would be easier to let her hatch babies, lol. Little did I know!
Of course adding the 4th egg late was my own fault. But I was afraid that at least one of the others might have been sitting on the counter too long to hatch. #4 was laid that day that I popped it under the broody, still warm.

I feel ya. We bred for olive eggers and I wanted to set at least 6. When the shipped eggs came, I didn’t want to hold onto them so I incubated them with the five OE eggs that I’d collected. The next day, 15 hours later, I got one more OE egg and set it warm - and it ended up with a displaced air cell! If it hatches, it will be a day behind the others... Debating whether to keep that one in the incubator...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

OMG, how darling is that gosling???!!! What breed are they?

They're Toulouse/Crested/Chinese mixes. Hatching them for a friend...or that's the plan...I mean, how am I supposed to give up something that looks at me like this?! lol

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

So I didn't wait very long because I just had to know about egg #4 and it's probably a good thing I decided to step in because eggs #2 & #3 both pipped but the hole in the external membrane was VERY small. I enlarged it a bit and see now that it's pretty dry in there too so I'm going to monitor for a while because I don't think they're ready yet, as chick #1 took a loooong time to hatch after external pip. But! I feel better now that I know they're getting plenty of oxygen.
Egg #4 was no good, not sure when it happened because the chick was in position for hatching but breakdown had already begun probably a couple days ago at least.
On a more positive note, I'm in LOVE with chick #1 , I don't know how I'm going to give these goslings to my friend. lol!

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Cuteness overload!