My goose egg adventure..Not turning out well.

[sheridangirl]

Okay everyone, I am new to this goose egg thing.
I purchased 5 sebbie eggs and let them sit for a day to settle before I put them in the bator. Four of the five grew but it is now day 30 and no internal pips or anything. I had to discard 1 of the four yesterday because it smelled rotten and none of the other 3 have pipped and I am not sure any are alive. I am not sure what I did wrong.
Here is how I handled them:
I bought an electronic humidty/temp guage and it has shown consistent at 99 inside the bator. However, the temp gauge that sits on the outside showed 98 and I have always used just the outside gauge to measure the temp for my chicken eggs. So I am thinking that perhaps my electronic temp gauge is wrong and I should have had my temp higher.
When I first started incubation I had the humidity at 70 percent. Then I was worried that the air sac would fill with fluid and the geese would drown when they pierce it, so I lowed the humidity to 50%. Then I raised the humidity back to 70% last week to prepare for hatch. Everyday I have removed the eggs and misted them and let them rest for 15 minutes. Any advice???

2 of the three eggs are about 2/3 full and one appears to be almost full. I checked the air sac this AM and it appears that there is fluid underneath the air sac on two of the eggs. Does this mean they are dead?
I have not completely given up hope on my eggs and will keep them in the bator until next week.

 

[88Haywood88]

I have never hatched goose eggs, but i have a sugestion if it doesn't turn out well. Get a pair of msture geese. You probably wouldn't be able to get sebastopol (unless you dropped a pretty penny), but if you would settle for toulouse geese, I'd highly reccomend them. Both of my pairs are going broody... I'd let geese make other geese... They seem to do better than us humans. Sometimes you can pick up toulouse geese for free on craigslist... at least that's how I got one of my pairs. Don't give up on geese, domestic geese account for three or four percent of domestic poultry in the US... good luck with that.

 

[JordanFamily]

I'm new to this but I think seeing fluid at hatch time is not good at all... Even 99 degrees is to low, if you had bumped it up to 100 that would have been better... Sounds like you have also opened the bator during lockdown which I'm sure you know is a big NONO... Well if it were me I would give them a couple of more days just to be on the safe side before you start to open them and find out what happened... Goodluck....