Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[animaladdictions]

Oh my gosssshhhh peeps! They're all gorgeous...I think my personal fave is Gary! His curls look SO soft and delicate...they are absolutely stunning Sebbies! I WANT!

 

[kimberly35042]

I have 2 goslings with their head looking out and one more pipped. I do not think the 4th one is going to make it. Just waiting now for them to totally hatch they have until tomorrow which is 30 days.

Gosh Barb...you're a hatching machine, aren't you?? Congrats on 3 out of 4. Who are the proud parents?

 

[RURU]

Hi Kim,
How are you my friend?? So far I've I have had 15 live hatches on the ground. Sold the first 4 and then had 8 and sold all them to one person they drove from Ohio to pick them up.
Now I have 3 going on a week old and they are mine! 2 saddleback daughter of Gloria! YES! Gloria I have never had goslings before from her. So these two girls are mine. Plus I have a Blue saddleback gosling from Hanna grey SB bred to Nikki lavender both curly. This little one can be bred back to Nikki if a female and will produce lavender saddlebacks....

The 3 in the incubator are from Hanna (grey sb curly) and Nikki (solid lavender carries sb).
But with my luck watch it be a gander.

Wanted to let you know Kim that Nesie has produced goslings and they were in the 8 I sold. Most of them will be smooth breasted or totally smooth because my husband did not have the pens ready and had all in one pen so Nesie decided to be Miss slut goose and breed with Lance (grey sb smooth breasted), Berry (blue smooth breasted) and Indie (lavender smooth breasted). NOt sure if she even bred with Dillan the white curly from you. He is not a splash because he turned out all white and just had some colored feathers in the tail. But Nesie sure made the rounds with the boys...
We had blues, grey saddlebacks, blue saddlebacks. It was a variety of colors. NO buffs that I know of. The people who got the goslings from Nesie and I am not sure if Vanessa laid any in the same nest? Vanessa is white curly from Vicky.

Right now Nesie is sitting on eggs and I think one might have exploded in there so that might kill of the goslings that are growing in their eggs.

I did much better this year on hatching eggs in the incubators... Plus followed Pete's incubation methods and have had great results.

I have several girls sitting on eggs but do not expect them to hatch with the way this weather has been going... Plus there might have been old eggs hidden in the nest somewhere that will or did explode and you know that just does the other in..

Did you get any Buff saddlebacks this year???

 

[RURU]

First one that pipped is out of the egg now and I took the gosling into my bed on a towel and got the hair dryer out and laid there and blew the gosling fluffy. Boy did the gosling enjoy that and woke up great. This is why I like to use my hair dryer on low warm it really wakes them goslings or ducks or peachick when I had ducks and peachick, up! The peachicks seem to love it the most though.

We have a Blue saddleback sebbie baby. The next is almost out of the shell but I assume still absorbing up the yolk sach.
The 3rd one has just pipped the egg shell.

 

[animaladdictions]

First one that pipped is out of the egg now and I took the gosling into my bed on a towel and got the hair dryer out and laid there and blew the gosling fluffy. Boy did the gosling enjoy that and woke up great. This is why I like to use my hair dryer on low warm it really wakes them goslings or ducks or peachick when I had ducks and peachick, up! The peachicks seem to love it the most though.

We have a Blue saddleback sebbie baby. The next is almost out of the shell but I assume still absorbing up the yolk sach.
The 3rd one has just pipped the egg shell.

can't wait for pics! my goslings LOVE the hair dryer too!

 

[flockman]

can't wait for pics! my goslings LOVE the hair dryer too!

X2!

 

[Iain Utah]

Good morning, hatching friends. My latest dewlap egg is almost done zipping. From what I can tell from the beak poking out, guess what color the baby is.....

The other dewlap egg is not looking good. It must have hit a vein when turning as I see staining in aircell. I can detect some movement in it, but it has not internally pipped. I am not optimistic about it hatching but since it is only start of day 29, I am going to leave it alone for now. The 3rd egg (white African) has not externally pipped yet, but was looking good when I was watching bator last night, and I feel good that it should hatch ok by tomorrow. It looks like I will be putting my hopes into next weekend's pair of dewlap eggs to hatch the elusive buff girl. Sigh.

 

[Iain Utah]

Well.... my latest grey dewlap boy is hatched out and looks great. I noticed my white African was not moving so I opened it up since it had internally pipped almost 2 days ago. It had internally pipped perfect but the shell was too hard to externally pip, so it had passed. I then opened the last egg up. It had more fluid in it than I had ever seen before. It obviously drowned trying to internally pip.... and it was a buff girl. All and all, it was a miserable hatch.

Hope next week's pair of eggs from my dewlap trio hatch ok and one is a girl. I also have 5 production Toulouse, 2 white Africans, 2 grey dewlaps and 5 chicken eggs headed for lockdown, so it should be a more interesting hatch than my previous ones.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well.... my latest grey dewlap boy is hatched out and looks great. I noticed my white African was not moving so I opened it up since it had internally pipped almost 2 days ago. It had internally pipped perfect but the shell was too hard to externally pip, so it had passed. I then opened the last egg up. It had more fluid in it than I had ever seen before. It obviously drowned trying to internally pip.... and it was a buff girl. All and all, it was a miserable hatch.

Hope next week's pair of eggs from my dewlap trio hatch ok and one is a girl. I also have 5 production Toulouse, 2 white Africans, 2 grey dewlaps and 5 chicken eggs headed for lockdown, so it should be a more interesting hatch than my previous ones.

So sorry J, so hard to lose them no matter the gender but you are trying so hard for a girl. Hope your next hatch gives you one or 2. and Congrats on the grey dewlap boy glad to hear he is healthy.

 

[kimberly35042]