Sebastopol Goose Incubation and Candeling

[JRies]

 

[Anessak47]

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

 

[JRies]

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Here comes your little scout getting ready to check the world out and engorge the rest to join in.

 

[JRies]

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Boy or girl you think? I’m thinking boy maybe? Kinda light kinda dark haha

If you want to know for sure you can save there shells dry them out and send them for genetic testing. I used these folks before https://iqbirdtesting.com/

 

[JRies]

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View attachment 3765504View attachment 3765505All three are out and alive. I did assist a shrink wrapped one, that was nerve racking, it’s the darker smaller one in the middle. The other two that hatched after the first one are definitely weaker, I hope they make it through the night lol.

There Beautiful. Great Job MaMa. Hard boiled egg yolk is a good supplement to there feed for there first few day's once they start eating. Nutritional yeast also will get there strength up.

 

[TacticalRandi]

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.

Oh my gosh, I got a gosling from her a couple days ago and she's collecting eggs for me this week! I'm SO excited about trying to hatch some eggs now since you were successful

 

[Anessak47]

Oh my gosh, I got a gosling from her a couple days ago and she's collecting eggs for me this week! I'm SO excited about trying to hatch some eggs now since you were successful

Nice!! Small world … Her eggs started hatching day 29. I manually hatched 2 of them because they were internally pipped for about 16 hours and one was already out so I created a safety hole being impaitent and scared I’d lose them, I think I shrink wrappped the membranes doing so even though my holes were tiny but I didn’t give up on them and slowly peeled the shell off the air pocket area and manipulated the veins to pull above the feet/heads made sure not to hit any big arteries. It was nerve racking but it worked out! Handel them a lot and they’ll be super protective of you whenever a person or animal runs up to me they get really loud and start chattering at whatever is coming towards me and they’re super jealous of my goats haha I love them and seeing them play in the pool haha photos of them today they just started getting a little more Curley but hers are smooth breasted so I think I got one without curls at all but that can change!