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[gooseegg]

Goose do as told right now. A wet paper towel will dry out. Get a plastic storage dish fill with hot water place in the back on the bator under the rear vent hole.
70% is the minimum you want when hatching.
When you add the water dish place what ever you are going to use under the egg, close the bator up and don't open it again.

I added the dish and the little windows are fogging over. Im a little worried. I hear nothing and the egg isn't moving. Is it possible he's resting? I will check back often. Please let me know if and when I should take him out and candle him to see if hes ok? Worried he might be internally pipped but not be able to break the outer shell?

update: humidity is at 72%. Not rising. The egg is moving a little.

 

[Iain Utah]

Goose egg.... I find my goose eggs do much better at 80% humidity. 72% may be a touch low.

 

[gooseegg]

Goose egg.... I find my goose eggs do much better at 80% humidity. 72% may be a touch low.

not sure how to get it higher? I have a bowl of water. a wet paper towel and the bottom full. both vents covered.

 

[Iain Utah]

Hm... can you take a pic of your bator (without opening it)? I want to see how & where you placed your egg and water dishes.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Sponges help give more surface area for moisture to evaporate and humidity to rise.

If you chose to candle, do it quickly, fat end only to see if the gosling internally pipped.

 

[gooseegg]

Hm... can you take a pic of your bator (without opening it)? I want to see how & where you placed your egg and water dishes.

 

[gooseegg]

Sponges help give more surface area for moisture to evaporate and humidity to rise.
If you chose to candle, do it quickly, fat end only to see if the gosling internally pipped.

Ok. I haven't candled it yet.. maybe I should wait till tonight? Its still at 72% humidity. Do I need to get it higher with sponges? Thanks. No movement right now. ?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

It isn't a chicken or even a duck as far as hatching. Goslings take long rests between actively pipping, and turning, and all the stages of hatching.

 

[Iain Utah]

It looks like you have a good viewing of the egg from the 2nd pic... and your dish is placed under vent hole if you need to add more water. Good job! I would probably leave your bator alone. The humidity should rise the longer you do not open bator. If necessary, you can get a piece of tubing and siphon water into the corners of the bator. With that said, however, if you want to candle again, do it now, rather than tonight, and add a warm damp kitchen sponge to further boost humidity. Just remember, If baby has already internally pipped, then you really do not want to open bator. Every time you open bator, you blast inside of bator with your room's dry air, and it takes a long time for the inside of bator to get moist again.

As for hatching process. The baby will wiggle and push to get into air cell. Then, it takes a very long nap and the body is internally turning on its respiration system (lungs start working). After a long rest, it then eats at the inner membrane and frees itself to then work on external pipping (during which time it looks like the egg from the outside is doing nothing). It usually takes a good 24 hours between internal pip and external pip.

 

[gooseegg]

Ok. Im gonna sit back and wait.. (so excited.. nervous..