Sebastopol hatching conflicting advice

[Saraalexis17]

Hello! I’ve scanned some threads here but no one has seemed to address this particular question.
I have 5 Sebastopol goose eggs that I just placed in an incubator. Some sources say to turn the first 4 to 6 days, some say TO NOT. Specifically sources geared toward Sebastopol's not just any goose. There’s also tons of mixed info for the cooling and misting duration. Is there any official or trusted guide? As of right now mine are on day one and I am not turning them.

Additionally I have the brinsea ovation and the turners go side to side. I’m concerned that this won’t be the 180 turn the goose eggs need. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Pumperkinz]

Hello! I’ve scanned some threads here but no one has seemed to address this particular question.
I have 5 Sebastopol goose eggs that I just placed in an incubator. Some sources say to turn the first 4 to 6 days, some say TO NOT. Specifically sources geared toward Sebastopol's not just any goose. There’s also tons of mixed info for the cooling and misting duration. Is there any official or trusted guide? As of right now mine are on day one and I am not turning them.

Additionally I have the brinsea ovation and the turners go side to side. I’m concerned that this won’t be the 180 turn the goose eggs need. Any advice is appreciated.

Hi if you look up pete's hatching guide under waterfowl here it's pretty good. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed.491013/

I hatch sebbies myself, and they are DIFFICULT.

I personally lay them on their side in my GQF and start turning them 180 degrees 2x late on day 2. I also cool down twice a day 10-15 mins. The first few days are the most important for the eggs to develop is why most say don't touch for 6 days etc. I turn on the auto tilter/turners and always do two turns a day so they get a full turn and don't get deformed/stuck on an egg shell or early out/die.

 

[ashdiz]

I had this same question also. I too am trying to hatch Sebastopol eggs. The first set I ordered and had shipped never developed at all (probably not fertile) the second set were developing on track but were supposed to pip 2 days ago and have not. And on my third set one never developed and the other started to develop on day 5 and by day 9 the spider veining was gone and all that remained was a dot.

 

[ashdiz]

Hello! I’ve scanned some threads here but no one has seemed to address this particular question.
I have 5 Sebastopol goose eggs that I just placed in an incubator. Some sources say to turn the first 4 to 6 days, some say TO NOT. Specifically sources geared toward Sebastopol's not just any goose. There’s also tons of mixed info for the cooling and misting duration. Is there any official or trusted guide? As of right now mine are on day one and I am not turning them.

Additionally I have the brinsea ovation and the turners go side to side. I’m concerned that this won’t be the 180 turn the goose eggs need. Any advice is appreciated.

I was conflicted also, however on my set of eggs that did develop I only went 24 hours before turning and they almost made it to the end. The shipped eggs I received I waited 4 days before starting to turn them. They never developed but that was a fertility issue. How are your eggs doing?

 

[Pumperkinz]

I had this same question also. I too am trying to hatch Sebastopol eggs. The first set I ordered and had shipped never developed at all (probably not fertile) the second set were developing on track but were supposed to pip 2 days ago and have not. And on my third set one never developed and the other started to develop on day 5 and by day 9 the spider veining was gone and all that remained was a dot.

That would be an early death, fertile but dead cause of either random bacteria or handling can cause this.

 

[Pumperkinz]

I was conflicted also, however on my set of eggs that did develop I only went 24 hours before turning and they almost made it to the end. The shipped eggs I received I waited 4 days before starting to turn them. They never developed but that was a fertility issue. How are your eggs doing?

I personally start rotating on day one.
I had 3/5 hatch, and rotated end to end as well had it on auto turn in my GQF cabinet.

If you watch hens they move the eggs from day one till they get ready to hatch out.

It also is bad to not rotate them because the embryos can die if they get attached to the wall, and the veins get ruptured some how. I know people always have opinions, and incubating isn't always exact either. Late stage dies (last week) are generally temperature or moisture dependent.

 

[OhShelby]

I started rotating on day 4 and at day 14 I have 7 out of 10 eggs still in the incubator with veins and a visible moving embryo. My question is all about the humidity. I have been running at 55% but I am in Virginia and it is starting to get hard to keep it there without a dehumidifier in the same room. Some are telling me 55 is too high. Its a hard breed to learn and everyone does it different.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I hatched mislabeled Sebastopol goose eggs last year. Hatched two out of 5.
3 eggs were duds. They were supposed to be Toulouse Geese. A fox got one Gosling one night last year, cuz my aunt let the ducks, & Geese wander all night instead of closing them in.

 

[Pumperkinz]

I started rotating on day 4 and at day 14 I have 7 out of 10 eggs still in the incubator with veins and a visible moving embryo. My question is all about the humidity. I have been running at 55% but I am in Virginia and it is starting to get hard to keep it there without a dehumidifier in the same room. Some are telling me 55 is too high. Its a hard breed to learn and everyone does it different.

The humidity people have said 40-50%, I personally go on how the air cell is looking. If it's not losing enough water I do not mind letting it go down to 20% to let it lose weight. Pete said in one his posts he suggested anywhere from 13-15% weight loss from initial egg lay to lockdown. If they haven't lost enough weight they will almost always drown in that final week.

 

[OhShelby]

The humidity people have said 40-50%, I personally go on how the air cell is looking. If it's not losing enough water I do not mind letting it go down to 20% to let it lose weight. Pete said in one his posts he suggested anywhere from 13-15% weight loss from initial egg lay to lockdown. If they haven't lost enough weight they will almost always drown in that final week.

My air cell seems to be on track for day 14 from the images I have found representing the same time frame. This IS MY FIRST RODEO, so I didn't start with weighing each egg. I will be watching closely and try to bring it down to 50. The nights are easy, its the day time that gets harder to keep low. Hopefully the lows and highs are averaging where it needs to be.