Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[zooweemama]

Zooweemama you and i will have goslings around the same day

NO way!! Yay! I CAN play! This is my first ever hatch in a bator of ANYThing. A new to me hovabator. Trying not to stress. I have 6 Brown African eggs in there and 12 of my own barnyard mix duck eggs. I am hatching them only because I want to learn how to properly candle, need to test the bator and in case only 1 gosling hatches- it can have a buddy. I candled today and it was amazing to see veins!!

 

[zooweemama]

8geese, not sure... but probably 4-5 per egg?

Congrats and welcome to everyone joining in with newly set eggs. I have my dewlap girls' eggs only newly set myself.

In the meantime, I hear tapping sounds from my bator with my first African girls' eggs.

Aww Africans! That's what I am attempting to hatch. Hoping for 1 but would love for them all to hatch.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

8geese, not sure... but probably 4-5 per egg?

Congrats and welcome to everyone joining in with newly set eggs.  I have my dewlap girls'
eggs only newly set myself.

In the meantime, I hear tapping sounds from my bator with my first African girls' eggs.

Thank you lain! And congrats on the tapping. Cant wait to see baby pics.

NO way!! Yay! I CAN play! This is my first ever hatch in a bator of ANYThing. A new to me hovabator.
Trying not to stress. I have 6 Brown African eggs in there and 12 of my own barnyard mix duck eggs. I am hatching them only because I want to learn how to properly candle, need
to test the bator and in case only 1 gosling hatches- it can have a buddy. I candled today and it was amazing to see veins!!

My first 6 brown chinese has been in about 7 days now. Then yesterday i added 3 more with 19 chicken eggs. The chicks will be
hatching with the first 6. The other 3 wil be a week later. If everything goes well i should have my hands full with babies. This is only my second time/year trying goose eggs and ive lost count for hatching chicks.

 

[Iain Utah]

zooweema, did you get eggs from Jen?

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Im stressing more over this batch then i did with the first 14 eggs i had last year. I think its because ive been reading all the horror stories about goslings hatching with problems. Plus im attached to my new pair i bought a few weeks ago, the chinese. I love both pairs but the chinese are so much different than my toulouse, they are like little feathered comedians.

 

[zooweemama]

zooweema, did you get eggs from Jen?

No. If this hatch is a bust- I am though. I have already contacted her. I will be getting some bantam BLRW chicken eggs though for sure! I already have a pair of her bantams BLRW chickens and we simply adore them. Shoot I might eventually getting some goose eggs anyway. This hatch is a big test for me. I didn't want to buy eggs from her and then slay them in the bator. I would be horrified. I figured...test on my own eggs first. So I can learn.

 

[zooweemama]

Im stressing more over this batch then i did with the first 14 eggs i had last year. I think its because ive been reading all the horror stories about goslings hatching with problems. Plus im attached to my new pair i bought a few weeks ago, the chinese. I love both pairs but the chinese are so much different than my toulouse, they are like little feathered comedians.

I think the Africans are similar. A lot of personality (imho) and really fun to watch. Loud but so are the ducks...and my family lol! Good thing we live in the country. I hear other peoples roosters crowing and lambs baaing alllllll day long. I think they can handle some goose honks.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

They are loud for sure. I live in the country too but still have neighbors that complained about my bottle goats crying. Even though i could not hear them while standing outside the barn and having hubby tell me when they were crying. So with that complaint i went on a mission to get the most obnoxious sounding animals i could find, im not a mean person but i will not tolerate someone that just moved to the country from the city and trys tell me what i can and cannot raise on my farm that has been an active farm for my family for over 100 yrs. So i got geese lmbo next will be a donkey. Then some peacocks i love them anyways but their loud cries is a plus. Hehe

 

[Dwen]

NO way!! Yay! I CAN play! This is my first ever hatch in a bator of ANYThing. A new to me hovabator. Trying not to stress. I have 6 Brown African eggs in there and 12 of my own barnyard mix duck eggs. I am hatching them only because I want to learn how to properly candle, need to test the bator and in case only 1 gosling hatches- it can have a buddy. I candled today and it was amazing to see veins!!

My eggs (ok, the ones my goose is sitting on) are the same age! They are Dewlap ToulousexShetland.

 

[zooweemama]

They are loud for sure. I live in the country too but still have neighbors that complained about my bottle goats crying. Even though i could not hear them while standing outside the barn and having hubby tell me when they were crying. So with that complaint i went on a mission to get the most obnoxious sounding animals i could find, im not a mean person but i will not tolerate someone that just moved to the country from the city and trys tell me what i can and cannot raise on my farm that has been an active farm for my family for over 100 yrs. So i got geese lmbo next will be a donkey. Then some peacocks i love them anyways but their loud cries is a plus. Hehe

haha!! We share a property with my mil, though who can only half hear me at times...somehow she can hear highway noise and the birds? LOL I would love to have a couple guinea hens. Just for fun. But she gets that look in her eyes if I mention guineas or peacocks/peahens. Maybe one day. She doesn't mind the roosters and geese so I think we're getting somewhere. haha!