Sebastopol Goose Incubation and Candeling

[JRies]

Tried to get a good photo day 15 but were all so active floating around.

 

[Anessak47]

Tried to get a good photo day 15 but were all so active floating around.

So cool when you can see them swimming around! Looks like you’ll have some babies soon hopefully. I’m on day 20 and I have some crazy good videos I will try and get some better pictures of day 20! I’ve been weighing meticulously, and watching a chick called Albert YouTube. I think the weighing gives me encouragement that they’re growing, seeing them all lose about the same weight each day now always between .8g and 1.5g every 24 hours. They’re only 5g from 10% weight loss then I’ll feel good about them making it to hatch!

 

[Anessak47]

Egg weights on day 15: egg 1: 181.1 egg 2: 190.9 egg 3: 178.7
One of the eggs has a dark ring like vein im keeping an eye on Ive read that might be from not turning my eggs enough.

Egg weights day 20: egg 1-174.3 egg 2- 184.6 egg 3-172.1
Goal weights for these eggs are roughly: 166, 174, and 164. If the eggs eg within 3 grams of these weight on day 28 I should have optimal exchange of gasses and air cell size. With 7 days until lockdown and final weigh in if they lose 1g a day I’ll hit that goal. All eggs still have movement. There is one egg with a very dark red chorioallantoic membrane, Pete’s guide said this may not be good for gosling respiration inside the membrane, so keeping an eye on that. My turning has been lazier last 5 days but I always hit at least 3 turns a day. I also forgot about my eggs twice when cooling once for an hour and another time for 40 min, but maybe that just simulates a mother goose not having a sense of time in the wild? Idk my house is usually 72 so it didn’t kill them.

 

[Anessak47]

Looks like your doing good. as they get older they do make there own heat so Im sure your doing good. Mama goose will leave her nest for longer times latter in the hatch. They will be hard to candle soon. mine are presently filling about 1/3 of the egg but next week will begin to fill it so wouldn't be able to see much. Looking forward to seeing your goslings. Mine hatch around day 31 so my hatch date should be around the 11th. But could come earlier. They are small eggs from a first year hen who still has a bit of white chinese in her genetics.

That is so good to know my incubator is tiny and couldn’t fit more that 4 goose eggs I think and the last three days for whatever reason my incubator it set to 99.5 but the thermometer I have in there has been reading 98.4 on average I think now the chicks are bigger it’s impacting my incubators ability to get over 99 degrees. When I keep it wrapped up in a fuzzy blanket it gets to 99 degrees, o saw another post where someone was like just close the vent hole a little more and then I was like oh duh lol

 

[JRies]

That is so good to know my incubator is tiny and couldn’t fit more that 4 goose eggs I think and the last three days for whatever reason my incubator it set to 99.5 but the thermometer I have in there has been reading 98.4 on average I think now the chicks are bigger it’s impacting my incubators ability to get over 99 degrees. When I keep it wrapped up in a fuzzy blanket it gets to 99 degrees, o saw another post where someone was like just close the vent hole a little more and then I was like oh duh lol

At this point you don't want to block vent holes there starting to expel gasses C20 and need oxygen. What type of incubator are you using?

 

[Anessak47]

At this point you don't want to block vent holes there starting to expel gasses C20 and need oxygen. What type of incubator are you using?

Kebonix from amazon it has been decent for the price so far I did get my temp back up to 99 degrees, for whatever reason that day was having a hard time. Two of the three have a very nice dipped AirCell and have lost 10% of their weight so they've hit my minimum weight loss goal at day 25. The largest weight egg is behind and needs to lose 2 more grams to hit 10% and the aircell isn't really dipped yet. I've started up a second smaller incubator for this egg. I may end up removing it from the bigger incubator Sunday, since it will probably be later to hatch and if the air cell is smaller has higher chance of needing intervention.

 

[Anessak47]

Your air cell will drop when they turn all of a sudden it will look huge. You’re doing great. Im excited to see your baby's. The larger one may hatch a day latter just because of its size. When I used my table top I just used a hot sopping wet bath towel draped over the incubator to sneak the hatched baby out. Things you can do to up humidity during hatch is put hot water in your reservoir when humidity drops. But 98 is a good temp for lock down. Goose hatches normally take 2 days from start to finish. When I set eggs I set my larger eggs 12 hours earlier than my small ones. I ship day olds and need to have them all hatch as close together as I cay

Your air cell will drop when they turn all of a sudden it will look huge. Your doing great. Im excited to see your baby's. The larger one may hatch a day latter just because of its size. When I used my table top I just used a hot sopping wet bath towel draped over the incubator to sneak the hatched baby out. Things you can do to up humidity during hatch is put hot water in your reservoir when humidity drops. But 98 is a good temp for lock down. Goose hatches normally take 2 days from start to finish. When I set eggs I set my larger eggs 12 hours earlier than my small ones. I ship day olds and need to have them all hatch as close together as I can.

You’re about right I woke up the next morning and the large egg caught up nicely and has a nice air cell now. They went into lockdown tonight (day 26), I can see them all three wiggling around in the shadow when I cancel and I can visibly see the eggs rocking in the incubator. I wasn’t planning to lockdown until day 27 but I just don’t see a reason to turn them anymore, and they’ve all achieved 12-13% weight loss so I’m not worried about upping the humidity to 40-60%, when I see an external pip I think I’ll try to get the humidity to stay between 60-80%

 

[Anessak47]

My goose Dandelion laid her first egg of the year Saturday, so I'm going to leave her eggs to get her broody and then buy her some fertile eggs. I have lambs on the way they are due soon! Good luck with your goslings!

The lady I got my eggs from is selling more Sebastopol fertile eggs in Sacramento on Craigslist $30 an egg and I’m sure she’ll ship for an additional fee. She gave me 3 and all 3 alive day 28. She had a really nice set up. She had the biggest ostriches too I’ve ever seen she sells fertile ostrich eggs too. Her sebbies were pretty too she had greys mixed in so I don’t expect them all to be super pure white.

 

[Barbours]

Hi everyone, I am on day 7 of incubation my Sebastopol geese eggs. This thread is for others to post their candeling pictures I’ll be posting mine every few days. I have never incubated eggs before and decided to start with the expensive Sebastopol goose eggs because I am impatient and didn’t want to lose this breeding season to practice on cheaper eggs. I went on eBay and saw that someone selling these eggs lived 15 minutes from me so I got very luck and got fresh unshipped eggs. My eggs were put in incubator day 3 after laying. But I am a little lost my Candeling looks different then I usually see there pictures are of 7 day incubation. Are my babies alive? I think so but now doubt is creeping in. Egg weights on day 7 were Egg 1: 187.5 G Egg 2: 197.3 Egg 3: 185.7 G

Looks and sounds good to me!

 

[JRies]

Yesss I got my first PIP this morning on day 29. I made the tiniest pinhole in my unresponsive egg, 2 of 3 of my eggs have been rocking and wiggling for 2-3 days. The 3rd also my lightest one wasn’t active so I pulled it out today real quick and checked on it under the brooder and it was internally pipped, I put a thumbtack hole in it and it started chirping loudly after then I pat it with a warm wet towel and put it back in, lots of movement now.View attachment 3764148

Perfect great way to assist just a little air hole. Your doing great bet I see baby pictures tomorrow morning.