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[gooseegg]

Thank you. My air cell is nothing like this. I think the baby inside is not doing well because there is very little movement. Seems like its slowly dying. or real weak. I guess I will know soon. Thank you again.

Silver there are basics and the more you leave well enough alone the better the eggs are in most cases. Rare occasions humidity will be too high and end up with sticky gooey hatchlings. Too dry and they can become shrink wrapped. Everyone's homes and environment effect the incubation. So sometimes it takes a few failed or mostly failed hatches to figure it out.
Goose here are a few pictures for you to refer to. We do indeed have ducklings hatching and some internally pipped so was able to get a picture of that for you.
Internally pipped duckling

Starting to push

Some of the currently set goose eggs

Showing the air cell lines.

This is a shipped egg and has more progress in air cell than others. This is typical when setting multiple eggs to have one have more rapid moisture loss and some be farther behind. This is one of many reasons we use multiple incubators including a 400 egg cabinet. This allows to rotate eggs into lockdown while others are still progressing to internally pip.

 

[gooseegg]

I just candled. Air cell is a little bigger. Not much. But bigger. I still see small movement. But its so small that I wonder if its my light flickering and casting shadows thru the egg. But then just when I think thats what it is I see a pretty deliberate "jerk" like it moved real quick just for a sec. So I still think its alive. I really wish I had a better light to look at the egg. I have a candler but it just doesn't seem bright enough.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Did I read correctly, you have incubated the egg standing up?

 

[Ceinwyn]

Goose eggs should be incubated on their sides.
Incubating them completely upright can cause malposition issues.
Canada geese typically hatch on average on day 28 so you'll want to get it on its side and keep a close watch on it.
The egg placed on its side may help the chick get better positioned to attempt hatching and make it easier to observe any movements the egg is making in the incubator.
You should see the egg rocking when hatching is getting close.

 

[gooseegg]

Did I read correctly, you have incubated the egg standing up?

yes.. although not straight up. it was slanted. Thats because the directions for my humidifyer said they needed to be slanted small side down. I didn't know goose eggs were different. Im afraid I have the answer to what my problem is. I incubated it small side down and now its malpositioned. Which means its probably not going to make it. Is there ANYTHING that can be done now? If not, this was hard lesson to learn. Its all my fault. :-(

 

[gooseegg]

yes.. although not straight up. it was slanted. Thats because the directions for my humidifyer said they needed to be slanted small side down. I didn't know goose eggs were different. Im afraid I have the answer to what my problem is. I incubated it small side down and now its malpositioned. Which means its probably not going to make it. Is there ANYTHING that can be done now? If not, this was hard lessong to learn. Its all my fault. :-(

When I did successfully incubate all my duck eggs 5 years ago they were all slanted too. I didn't know goose eggs where different. I was in a hurry to save him and didn't educate myself enough on how to do it.

 

[gooseegg]

Goose eggs should be incubated on their sides.
Incubating them completely upright can cause malposition issues.
Canada geese typically hatch on average on day 28 so you'll want to get it on its side and keep a close watch on it.
The egg placed on its side may help the chick get better positioned to attempt hatching and make it easier to observe any movements the egg is making in the incubator.
You should see the egg rocking when hatching is getting close.

I incubated it slanted downward. Small side down. I am afraid he is malposistioned which means he will probably die. :-( I feel terrible.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Goose everyone goes through learning curves when it comes to incubating. Lesson learned, all be it a hard one. No need to panic, over stress, or overly obsess over what you did or did not do now.

Since we low you have a wild goose egg (Canadian) and they typically hatch day 28 per Ceinwyn. I will suggest the movement you think you see isn't movement, but vibrations from your hand. It doesn't matter how still you hold no human is robot motionless. This will transfer to the egg and make your eyes see what you want not what is real.

You can keep going with it, but at this point I would call it done and turn the incubator off.

You did what you thought was best at the time, and gave the egg more of a chance than it had without the goose sitting.

 

[gooseegg]

Goose everyone goes through learning curves when it comes to incubating. Lesson learned, all be it a hard one. No need to panic, over stress, or overly obsess over what you did or did not do now.
Since we low you have a wild goose egg (Canadian) and they typically hatch day 28 per Ceinwyn. I will suggest the movement you think you see isn't movement, but vibrations from your hand. It doesn't matter how still you hold no human is robot motionless. This will transfer to the egg and make your eyes see what you want not what is real.
You can keep going with it, but at this point I would call it done and turn the incubator off.
You did what you thought was best at the time, and gave the egg more of a chance than it had without the goose sitting.

Thank you. Im gonna hold out for a couple days and keep checking just to make sure. It doesn't smell bad? I will let you know either way. I will probably stop Sunday. :-(

 

[Ceinwyn]

Please try not to be too hard on yourself.
Remember this egg had 0 chance without your help to start with.
The initial trauma it went through may have caused issues as well.
Sometimes no matter what we do it doesn't work out.
At this point a hands off approach of just watching is best.
I hope this little one proves us all wrong, but regardless you did the best you could to give it a chance it didn't have without you.