Somebody PLEASE tell me how to incubate Sebastopol geese eggs!!!!

[dvdml]

Help - I have a pair of Sebastopol geese and they just laid an egg on the bank of my pond. They seem to be ignoring it - what should I do? I am afraid the rain this weekend will raise the water level - it is very close to the water. Should I move it? If they do not sit on it what should I do? thank you!

 

[dvdml]

Help - I have a pair of Sebastopol geese and they just laid an egg on the bank of my pond. They seem to be ignoring it - what should I do? I am afraid the rain this weekend will raise the water level - it is very close to the water. Should I move it? If they do not sit on it what should I do? thank you!

 

[HerbGir1972]

We're rehoming Sebastopol goose eggs tomorrow, got a styro cooler and some hot hands ready for transport. Testing our new digital incubator tonight.
Were so egg cited.

 

[Brash]

I love my sebies

 

[TomOnlyone]

A week ago today i bought 5 Sebastapol geese. 1 gander and 4 geese.
One goose has 4 eggs already - fortunately she laid in the nest I made for them. She leaves the eggs for a couple of hours at a time to go out on the pond with the others but she does sit on them at night. Is this normal?
I am more used to other fowl that lay and then leave the nest until the next day but once they start setting rarely leave the nest.
Any info would be appreciated. Normally how many eggs do they lay before setting?

 

[EdenCamp]

Celsius not Fahrenheit....

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you only keep the eggs at 37 degrees???

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[Angeladukes40]

This is from my website.

Hatching Preparation

Before incubation, I make sure that all of my incubation equiptment is properly disinfected. I use a solution of water and Brinsea Incubation Disinfectant to disinfect my equiptment. I put the solution into a spray bottle and mist down my incubator, thermometers, the slats that hold the eggs, and my new sponge for humidity. I also dip the eggs in the disinfectant before I put them into the incubator.

To order the Brinsea Incubation Disinfectant you can go to http://www.brinsea.com/default.aspx That is the offical Brinsea website.



Temperature
When hatching goose eggs the temperature needs be at 37.4-37.6 degrees celsius.



Humidity

The humidity should be 50-55% during days 1-26. On day 27 when the eggs are 3 days away from hatching the humidity needs to be around 75%. A hint to keep the humidty up for hatching is to take a brand new clean sponge and soak it with warm-hot water, then put that in the incubator. The sponge keeps the humidity high.



Turning

The goose eggs need to be turned and odd number of times a day from day 1 to day 26. On day 27 of incubation you must stop turning the eggs. The goslings are moving around in the egg getting in the position to hatch. Rotating the egg during this time will confuse the gosling.



Misting and cooling the egg

Starting on day 4 and ending on day 26 you must take the top off the incubator and let the egg cool for 10 miniutes. Sometime during that cool down the egg must be sprayed with warm water.


Hatching

Around day 28-30 when the gosling begins to hatch you must not open the incubator. Opening the incubator lets out the humidity and the gosling can become stuck in the shell. Let the gosling stay in the incubator for 24 hours until it fluffs up before moving it to the brooder.

So I’m doing everything that you mentioned but I have had the humidity rite around 60-65% and I’m on day 16 and the temperature at 100.5 is that to high ? The baby is doing great so far and I have it in with my black Cayuga duck eggs.

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC!. Are you sure you want the humidity that high?

 

[Angeladukes40]

Welcome to BYC!. Are you sure you want the humidity that high?

It’s what the lady told me I got the eggs from. I was trying to check around to be sure. I’m and it is a Sabastopol goose.

 

[casportpony]

Hopefully, we can get @Pyxis to comment.