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Well I think we might have finally figured out the secret to hatching goose eggs, of the 4 eggs we had left this season, one egg was an early quiter, but 3 eggs went into lock down.
Two of those externally piped, and then hatched quickly within 24 hours on day 29, One piped externally but still did not hatch after 24 hours, so we helped that gossling out, unfortunately this gossling has a crooked neck, and we'll probably have to cull it eventually.
What I did different with this group of goose eggs was, I did not add any water to the incubator, other than I started spraying the eggs at day 7, and flipped the eggs 180 degrees
daily starting at day 7 in addition to the incubator turning the eggs. I saw this video on
you tube, and so followed that method of fipping & spraying the goose eggs and it seemed to help my hatch.
These gosslings are a-lot bigger now, since this photo was taken 2 weeks ago. These are lavander buff gosslings, but their
down color is so different, so I guess we'll see what color we end up with once their feathered. So for our first season we hatched out 4 gooslings, and our less than one year old adult sat on eggs, but did not hatch any themselves, probably next year the adults will be more prepared.
Two of those externally piped, and then hatched quickly within 24 hours on day 29, One piped externally but still did not hatch after 24 hours, so we helped that gossling out, unfortunately this gossling has a crooked neck, and we'll probably have to cull it eventually.
What I did different with this group of goose eggs was, I did not add any water to the incubator, other than I started spraying the eggs at day 7, and flipped the eggs 180 degrees
daily starting at day 7 in addition to the incubator turning the eggs. I saw this video on
you tube, and so followed that method of fipping & spraying the goose eggs and it seemed to help my hatch.
These gosslings are a-lot bigger now, since this photo was taken 2 weeks ago. These are lavander buff gosslings, but their
down color is so different, so I guess we'll see what color we end up with once their feathered. So for our first season we hatched out 4 gooslings, and our less than one year old adult sat on eggs, but did not hatch any themselves, probably next year the adults will be more prepared.
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