Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[pips&peeps]

I have a total of 10 goslings now. I have several more eggs in the incubator.

I have sanded a few of my larger eggs because they are out of a special pen that I really want to hatch from and have four eggs that were on day 24 yesterday that I put a hole in the top of.

I did notice the eggs that are further along in incubation seem to be chalky now. I hope that means the shell is breaking down so that evaporation can take place.

 

[RiverGoddess]

~ 10 Goslings!

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I am sooo excited about my hatch this weekend! I have my 1st 2 PEACOCKS hatching. Never hatched them before, have set many but never had any develop. They are 2 White Peacocks. I set 2 & both have developed.

I also have 2 Embdens, and 6 Utah, and 1 Roosevelt egg ! Fun Hatching
Hope for some BOYS from Utah eggs

REALLY want the lone african egg to be a boy !!!!

 

[lori stetson]

Hi Iain. Thanks for the info on your blind goose. Will get some good pictures this evening but I'm becoming less and less optimistic about those eyes opening. Starting trits 3rd day today and lids still sunken and sealed tight. Stevie ( or Stevia if he's a she) is eating and drinking well and starting to pick the grass a little when we go outside. Seems to be a little less balanced than the other 4 but at least some of that is likely due to not getting as much exercise in the big brooder box as they do with mom and dad. The pair of 2 week old Orphington chicks that he's sharing the brooder with have done a good job of teaching him to eat and drink and my orphs are very laid back so I'm probably going to raise the 3 kids together in a new yard and move the adult flock to them when they're old enough. Guess he'll have to figure out the swimming thing on his own unless my chicks grow waterwings. Lol

 

[pete55]

Jean - Congratulations on your 10 Goslings and best of luck with the next eggs. Those larger eggs can be so stubborn at losing moisture. When you sand your eggs do you lightly sand the entire surface or a limited area?

Sanding sounds a good idea which is also non-invasive

RG - Keeping track of your hatches and the Buff Dewlaps - how many is that? Poor Iain seems to be hatching all the males!!!

Pleased to hear of your Peafowl eggs and best of luck with them.

Lori - sorry to hear all about the blind gosling

 

[RiverGoddess]

RG - Keeping track of your hatches and the Buff Dewlaps - how many is that? Poor Iain seems to be hatching all the males!!!

Pleased to hear of your Peafowl eggs and best of luck with them.

I have
4 Buff Dewlap Girls from her Trio.
3 African Girls
A Pair of split Brown/White Africans

So far ..... SO SOME BOYS would be nice.

I have in my bator right now ~
12 more developing from her trio Grey/Buff Dewies (

her for selling me her Golem eggs)

3 White Africans

4 Fritter Eggs (the pics from her previous post)

1 lone African egg (BOY BOY BOY

)

And a BeeDub egg (gotta luv her Goose names!)

I am just hatching the peafowl for fun....

 

[RiverGoddess]

On a fun side....

My hubby is fabricating/building a wood cabinet in the same specs as my Bator. He is an amazing guy, and this should look like a old icebox & looking at making it hatch around 200-300 eggs. Same paddle, drum, motors, etc. The only thing we cannot recreate is the mercury thermometer settings, so we are going digital.

Maybe I could post our build somewhere? We were going to stain it ~ What color should I use Utah (want it to match your house

)
~ After all you are going to be the 1st to use our model ! You will get Model 1x1

 

[pips&peeps]

Jean - Congratulations on your 10 Goslings and best of luck with the next eggs. Those larger eggs can be so stubborn at losing moisture. When you sand your eggs do you lightly sand the entire surface or a limited area?

Sanding sounds a good idea which is also non-invasive

RG - Keeping track of your hatches and the Buff Dewlaps - how many is that? Poor Iain seems to be hatching all the males!!!

Pleased to hear of your Peafowl eggs and best of luck with them.

Lori - sorry to hear all about the blind gosling

Pete,

I went over the whole surface of the egg and especially the top.

I used a small screw to put a hole in the other eggs. It is smaller than the dremmel like tool you posted a picture of when you drilled holes last year.

I have been very diligent on cooling the eggs. I spray them, turn them and spray again then let set.

The incubator I just got is set up for emu eggs and I think the fan speed is a little higher than most. The hatch rate is going up and my most valued pens are still laying.

 

[mystil]

We now have 4 from the incubator. Hatched okay. The one pipped from the wrong side of the egg is doing well so far. Has a very sore looking area nears its navel this morning as I would expect.

I have not had a chance to check it tonight yet. Fingers crossed.

We heard such horror stories about incuabtion rates that we put extra eggs in the incubator just to get a good hatch rate. However, we have had such a sucessful hatch so far that we are getting over run with goslings! We started afew months ago with none and now we have 14!! and more to come. Lol. I think this is a new disease we have...

 

[Miss Lydia]

We now have 4 from the incubator. Hatched okay. The one pipped from the wrong side of the egg is doing well so far. Has a very sore looking area nears its navel this morning as I would expect.

I have not had a chance to check it tonight yet. Fingers crossed.

We heard such horror stories about incuabtion rates that we put extra eggs in the incubator just to get a good hatch rate. However, we have had such a sucessful hatch so far that we are getting over run with goslings! We started afew months ago with none and now we have 14!! and more to come. Lol. I think this is a new disease we have...

I believe it maybe Contagious too. Congrats on the new babies, are you keeping them all?

 

[kimberly35042]

Congratulations everybody! I have 6 sebbies starting to transform from little dinosaurs into their pretty big kid feathers complete with curly chests

The Canadian geese (wild) still have all 5 of their goslings. I'm so proud of them! And so fun watching somebody else raise goslings for a change!