Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[kimberly35042]

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???

Not yet -- I have 2 more hatches to go, so maybe I can get some color out of Paige and Alex. All is not lost however as I hatched a cute "round" headed guy that hopefully will provide a foundation for better form, and it looks like chest curls are coming in REALLY high up the neck

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So much of what hatched last year was just so small bodied that I just kept them out on the pond. I didn't use Blueberry Nugget either, but hopefully can cross her color and fat body in at some point in the future.
Congratulations on your awesome hatches!

 

[animaladdictions]

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.

Sounds like you and I are having some of the same issues....I had two eggs in..today being day 30 for both. I noticed early this morning that one wasn't moving so I went in and sure enough..DIS...it was an enormous baby and couldn't get turned for internal pipping. The other one was still alive but I knew right away I had a problem in there because there was fluid in the shell..I went in because I worried it would drown in it's own goo. I wiped it's little face free from the insane amount of gooey yellow fluid (what IS that stuff anyway?), spiked the humidity way up in the hatcher to try my best to keep it moist (if that stuff dries it's a nightmare) and now it's just a waiting game to see if it pulls through or not. Past experience tells me not to get my hopes too high on this one. The saddest part for me is, I have a single egg left in the bator (not due for a couple weeks) but it's my Gabby's egg and so far, this being her first year to lay, every fertile egg she's given me has had an early death. I'm happy for the two buffs and four greys that I managed to hatch, but 6 out of, I'd say near 40 eggs, just doesn't feel too successful...especially when a few of those actually did hatch and then died post hatch. I can't for the life of me figure out HOW there can be that much fluid in the egg when my humidity is kept at around 25%!!!

You're lucky you're still getting eggs from yours! I sure do hope you get at least one buff before it's all said and done! If nothing else, maybe River can sell you one back? Seems she got all the girls from your eggs! I think she puts some sort of spell on her bator or something...or does some crazy happy hatch dance around the eggs before she puts them in there!!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks, everyone.

At least I have 7 more from my trio developing in bator and 4 new eggs to set this evening.

Animaladdictions, sorry to hear of your recent loss. Hope the other one pulls through!!

 

[animaladdictions]

So far it's still alive but I don't know for how long... I wish Pete would get on here and explain what all this fluid is from and what it is exactly...I guess it's like amniotic fluid but it's really weird and it makes the yolk sac take forever to absorb (if you can get it to before the little one dies). It's almost like it's a premature hatch or something but it's not...it's day 30. Weird...

 

[pips&peeps]

The two Adonis eggs hatched, one was breech and came out on it's own! Two of three Gary eggs have hatched and only one of the Valentino eggs made it.

So, waiting on one more Gary egg. All of the eggs that made it to the hatcher dried down very nicely.

Make sure you are cooling your eggs every day!!!!! Some of my bigger eggs are not drying down, so I am going to get a dremmel and put a tiny hole in the top of the egg sometime after two weeks. I may be consulting Pete to get his opinion.

 

[animaladdictions]

The two Adonis eggs hatched, one was breech and came out on it's own! Two of three Gary eggs have hatched and only one of the Valentino eggs made it.

So, waiting on one more Gary egg. All of the eggs that made it to the hatcher dried down very nicely.

Make sure you are cooling your eggs every day!!!!! Some of my bigger eggs are not drying down, so I am going to get a dremmel and put a tiny hole in the top of the egg sometime after two weeks. I may be consulting Pete to get his opinion.

I too had thought about this...I've never heard of anyone doing it before but it sure makes sense that if you're eggs aren't losing enough moisture even at 25% humidity, there's got to be something worth trying out there. I actually started cooling my eggs twice a day for the last week in hopes it would help...no such luck.

 

[RURU]

We have 2 new goslings which hatched out Sunday and Monday. So here are my Hanna and Nikki goslings the looks to be Blue saddleback. Now there is a grey gosling and I am not sure if I can get grey gosling from grey saddleback female and a solid lavender gander? If you can then this grey is their gosling as well. If not I know it would be Ginger and Sammie goslings, Ginger grey saddleback and Sammie white.
Anyway here are the two babies.

 

[Miss Lydia]

We have 2 new goslings which hatched out Sunday and Monday. So here are my Hanna and Nikki goslings the looks to be Blue saddleback. Now there is a grey gosling and I am not sure if I can get grey gosling from grey saddleback female and a solid lavender gander? If you can then this grey is their gosling as well. If not I know it would be Ginger and Sammie goslings, Ginger grey saddleback and Sammie white.
Anyway here are the two babies.

Their adorable RURU, Congrats!!

 

[RURU]

Thank you Miss Lydia.

 

[Iain Utah]

So far it's still alive but I don't know for how long... I wish Pete would get on here and explain what all this fluid is from and what it is exactly...I guess it's like amniotic fluid but it's really weird and it makes the yolk sac take forever to absorb (if you can get it to before the little one dies). It's almost like it's a premature hatch or something but it's not...it's day 30. Weird...

Any updates?

The two Adonis eggs hatched, one was breech and came out on it's own! Two of three Gary eggs have hatched and only one of the Valentino eggs made it.

So, waiting on one more Gary egg. All of the eggs that made it to the hatcher dried down very nicely.

Make sure you are cooling your eggs every day!!!!! Some of my bigger eggs are not drying down, so I am going to get a dremmel and put a tiny hole in the top of the egg sometime after two weeks. I may be consulting Pete to get his opinion.

Congrats on babies and getting at least one from Valentino!

We have 2 new goslings which hatched out Sunday and Monday. So here are my Hanna and Nikki goslings the looks to be Blue saddleback. Now there is a grey gosling and I am not sure if I can get grey gosling from grey saddleback female and a solid lavender gander? If you can then this grey is their gosling as well. If not I know it would be Ginger and Sammie goslings, Ginger grey saddleback and Sammie white.
Anyway here are the two babies.

Beautiful!