Need help seeing if American Buff geese eggs are developing fine please?

[AliceCaelum]

Hi, I am hatching 4 American Buff geese eggs for the first time (first time hatching eggs ever) and I tried looking some of the resources here but some links seem to be broken and would appreciate any advice based on pics I've taken. I'm incredibly nervous and just want to make sure the eggs are doing fine. I heard larger geese breed like American Buff take a little longer to hatch right? But I could not find much information on incubating eggs for that breed.

Day 7 after I started incubating the eggs:

Eggs at Day 24, today:

It's a little hard to see in the last 3 pics but I noticed a slight formation of an air bubble forming at the end of the eggs.

 

[Pyxis]

Those have all been incubating for 24 days? If yes, they are clear, and probably weren't fertile to begin with

With candling it's easier to see things if you candle through the air cell at the fat end of the egg, instead of through the middle.

 

[AliceCaelum]

Oh no, really? I got them from ebay as fertile hatching eggs for American Buff... I don't know what went wrong then. I have been setting them in the incubator at 37.5 degrees and made sure to keep adding water for humidity. If they are really clear I'm going to be so bummed... been waiting ages for a pet geese. And sorry about the pics I didn't have a better flashlight on me at the time.

 

[yickenscarf23]

They don't look viable to me. When you have eggs developing normally, the veining & embryo will be super obvious. I just had my first hatching experience and I learned that if you have to look hard for it, it probably isn't there.

Good luck on future incubating! Maybe try locally sourced hatching eggs. I've heard the shipping is so hard on them.

 

[Pyxis]

Oh no, really? I got them from ebay as fertile hatching eggs for American Buff... I don't know what went wrong then. I have been setting them in the incubator at 37.5 degrees and made sure to keep adding water for humidity. If they are really clear I'm going to be so bummed... been waiting ages for a pet geese. And sorry about the pics I didn't have a better flashlight on me at the time.

I have some eggs incubating from my own flock that are around as far along as yours. At this stage, they would be mostly black. Here's a picture of mine right now, on day 21:

It may not be that they weren't fertile - shipping can be hard on eggs, and they might have been viable, but shipping could have ruined them for hatching.

 

[AliceCaelum]

Aw darn.. thank you both for weighing in. I guess I will have to try again with new eggs.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Oh no, really? I got them from ebay as fertile hatching eggs for American Buff... I don't know what went wrong then. I have been setting them in the incubator at 37.5 degrees and made sure to keep adding water for humidity. If they are really clear I'm going to be so bummed... been waiting ages for a pet geese. And sorry about the pics I didn't have a better flashlight on me at the time.

What state did you buy them from?

 

[AliceCaelum]

What state did you buy them from?

The eggs were from Tennessee. I am in Maryland.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

The eggs were from Tennessee. I am in Maryland.

Thank you for replying! I just bought some from Michigan they haven't shipped yet and frankly was hoping I didn't just waste my money buying infertile eggs. I've read that the American Buff Geese aren't the best at breeding so I suppose that its bound to happen sometimes.

 

[AliceCaelum]

Thank you for replying! I just bought some from Michigan they haven't shipped yet and frankly was hoping I didn't just waste my money buying infertile eggs. I've read that the American Buff Geese aren't the best at breeding so I suppose that its bound to happen sometimes.

Oh I didn't know that! I picked American Buffs because I heard of their calm and quiet temperament, didn't hear about how good they were at breeding. Now I am trying to find farms in Maryland that could sell hatching geese eggs to me to try again. I hope you have good luck with your new eggs!