Setting eggs on FEB 10

[my sunwolf]

Ugh! I have 28 eggs for lockdown tomorrow...and I hear thunder. PLEASE let the power stay on!!!

All of my chicks are doing well. I sold all of my extra roos. I hope my 4 seramas are pullets!

My 7 Mutts from the first hatch and 7 EE's/bantams from the second hatch are all doing well. My expensive eggs are in the bator and, though the humidity's a little high, I'm really hoping for good things this time around.

I am definitely hoping for your power to stay on! We've had really good luck with power outages--just two this winter, and the longest was only for 4 days. I'm hoping none of us have any outages this spring.

How do you sell your extra roos?! No one around here will pay anything for a rooster, and even a purebred bantam will only fetch a very small price if it's that young.

 

[bugglesmommy]

Do you ever have any poultry swaps near you? It's a good way to sell, trade, or buy birds and other small livestock.

Out of my first two hatches I only have 4 since so many were roos.

 

[bugglesmommy]

Hey guys. Me and CowgirlHC are about to take on goose eggs. Feel free to grab a goose egg and join us!

Found a guide:
Prepare the incubator. Be sure that it's clean and sterilized. Keep it at a steady temperature of 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 50-55 percent relative humidity, using a hatching thermometer and a hydrometer or a wet bulb. The wet bulb conversion for this relative humidity is 81 to 83 degrees.

Set the eggs. Place them in the incubator on their sides with the date side up. The temperature in the incubator will drop after you have placed the eggs. Don't adjust the temperature at this point; let it catch up as it warms the cool eggs.

Cool the eggs for 15 minutes each day and spray them with room-temperature water from day 4 to day 27.

Turn the eggs at least three times daily. Additional turns may increase hatchability, but be sure that you turn the eggs an odd number of times each day so that they aren't left on the same side every night. Use the date marking to remember which eggs have been turned; they should all be face up or face down.

Stop cooling, spraying and turning the eggs on day 27, and increase the humidity in the incubator to 75 percent. The goslings are beginning to position themselves for hatching now, and turning them will confuse them. Let the baby geese hatch on their own unless they go for more than 12 hours without making any progress.

 

[bugglesmommy]

Double posted. Sorry! I will just use this already existing accidental post to say all of my babies are well. Sal is starting to try to crow. It's so squeaky and cute.

 

[CowgirlHC]

Is anyone going to join us in our gosling hatch? Mine will probably be here tomorrow and Ill be out of town til Saturday eve. good thing the hubs will be here. What day we setting Buggles?

 

[bugglesmommy]

My eggs didn't get here today. Grrr. If they arrive tomorrow then I will set them the day after.

....WORST DAY EVER!!!!

I couldn't sleep last night then..

Today I had a chick hatch too soon. It's yolk sac was still a little out. Then it flailed and pulled it out all of the way. I put it by itself in a container in the bator.

Then I find out my mom is in the hospital. She might have to have her colon removed!

Come home... the chick pulled its intestines out and I had to euthanize it.

Just now... I found a snake got 2 of my silkies! Including my gorgeous splash. Couldn't eat them, only tried to eat Rosie. I hate snakes. My no kill to nonvenomous snakes policy has now changed.

 

[CowgirlHC]

Oh my goodness you have NOT have a good day at all :-( I am so sorry, I pray things get better.

 

[my sunwolf]

Oh no I'm sorry

How is your mom doing? Did your eggs ever arrive?

My dog tends to keep most snakes off the property as he hates them and will go after even the poisonous ones (which may get him into trouble some day).

We've been having some awful farm luck as well. My eggs are on Day 10 and still have a lot of rolling air cells, a bunch of saddle air cells, some undeveloped... hoping for any chicks at this point.

What are your statuses on setting?

 

[CowgirlHC]

I'm on day 4 of my geese eggs now. 2 seem perfect, 1 seems to have a loose air cell as well, but I'm holding out it'll be fine. I start the misting and cool down process for 15 mins per day this evening. I hope I'm doing this right lol

 

[bugglesmommy]

Sorry about the delay in responding.

My goose eggs are of course set by now. My duckling hatch went poorly. I only got 3/9 full-term ducklings. Most were positioned wrong. I had the air cells up. I don't know what happened.

My mom went through surgery okay but they did let her suffer for an hour after she woke up, which I was not happy about. You figure that they would have anticipated pain from cutting her open and slicing out a chunk of her intestines and had the medicine on hand. Common sense was not on the chart obviously.