Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[Miss Lydia]

Cant wait to see what they look like and turn out to be. Pekin x brown runner crosses. Probably look like fat bowling pins walking around lol

I bet they'll be cute fat bowling pins

 

[Miss Lydia]

Two of my Sebastopol eggs have external pips ! This is my first time with geese

 

[Iain Utah]

I am surprised and extremely pleased to have come home from work to find my hard hatchling running around box with his hatchmates. He is doing so much better that I almost want to declare him out of the woods! I am also amazed to have found my last African hatchling alive and sitting up in the incubator. Goslings can be the most resilient and tough little things. It's inspiring to behold.

Here's the little guy (laying down in front). You can see the fluid swelling has receded.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

 I bet they'll be cute fat bowling pins 

Cute for sure!

 

[RURU]

How sweet J. So glad to see the baby doing well for you.....

 

[kimberly35042]

I am surprised and extremely pleased to have come home from work to find my hard hatchling running around box with his hatchmates. He is doing so much better that I almost want to declare him out of the woods! I am also amazed to have found my last African hatchling alive and sitting up in the incubator. Goslings can be the most resilient and tough little things. It's inspiring to behold.

Here's the little guy (laying down in front). You can see the fluid swelling has receded.

Awww...beautiful!

I love a grey bill. We had some sneaky canadians hatch some babies on the pond and show up with five of the little boogers over the weekend.
I never even knew she was nesting! But that's the only color I have so far.....

 

[RURU]

Hi Kim!!

How has the breeding for your Buff saddlebacks been coming along??? I know you were looking forward to getting some maybe curly Buff saddlebacks this year.
Sometime what we plan as the human is not the same plans the geese have huh!

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks!

Kim, I bet they are so cute! I have a Canadian pair with a nest somewhere on my property. The goose has been sitting for at least a couple of weeks now, so I hope to see babies very soon from them.

 

[pete55]

Hi All

Thanks for the good wishes as I was really fed up yesterday (yes - even me)! Gone back to basic with the remaining eggs which is 37.3C, incubators running dry around 25% humidity and daily cooling according to original regime of about 20 minutes. I've switched off the auto cooling on the new incubator as the period is 1 to 3 hours in 30 minute intervals (cant set it under 60 minutes) so its back to standard cooling by hand. (Alarm set on my mobile phone).

Hope everyone's hatches go well and for the weekend as I'm away visiting family so wont be online so much.

Iain
Congratulations on the babies and sounds like the weaker Dewlap is just getting stringer and stronger. Great news and a reward for your efforts

RuRU
Lovely to see your goslings progressing too and I think the weaker SB will gradually recover its strength. I'll bet you're over the moon to get babies from Gloria at last and a Blue SB

On the plus side our newly re-formed pair of Dewlaps go from strength to strength with breeding behaviour and again mating this morning. So strange that neither bothered when with other partners and had been with them since late Autumn. These two have been back together just 5 days!!! Very late in the season to be starting but I do think it'll happen. In the absence of some goslings pics I had hoped to be taking here's some pics in the garden.

Oh and I'm also another keen photographer

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am surprised and extremely pleased to have come home from work to find my hard hatchling running around box with his hatchmates. He is doing so much better that I almost want to declare him out of the woods! I am also amazed to have found my last African hatchling alive and sitting up in the incubator. Goslings can be the most resilient and tough little things. It's inspiring to behold.

Here's the little guy (laying down in front). You can see the fluid swelling has receded.

Aww I love them.. Congrats !!