So very sorry for your loss
Hi fowlmama, have your other eggs pipped yet? If so, take them out and put them in a nice warm place to hatch and you shouldn´t lose any more. This is why I took the hatching eggs away from my first-time mums, because they were crushing the babies. I only lost one because I got on top of it quickly. I gave the babies back afterwards and they´ve been excellent mums, it was just the hatching stage that it went wrong. Your present gosling will probably be fine with its parents now, it´s got beyond the crucial stage. But take the other hatching eggs out, keep them warm, and wait. I know I already told you this, but it worked. I put my eggs in an ice-cream pot with a thermometer inside in the shaded part, a glass of water to keep it all damp, a damp cloth, cling-film over the top with the smallest gap to regulate the heat, and a lamp over the top. they hatched, were fine, went back to the mums once they were on their feet. 3 other eggs I gave to a muscovy to hatch out, and she did great. It´s just some geese, especially first-timers. I hope you save your last ones.... if they´re fertile eggs, of course.
I chickened out.....ugh.....I'm too afraid I'm not going to do something right and I will be the cause of the goslings dying......I don't know if I can stomach that guilt.....I removed two of the 3 eggs to candle and I could clearly hear the "clicking" and faint chirping in one egg, no external signs of pipping and nothing coming from the other......I'm such an idiot I didn't mark the "clicking" egg! Sometimes I get on my own nerves! Geez.....
I put both eggs back under lydikins.....
LB,
I Only have a digital thermometer, and Tupperware containers.....I just don't have the confidence that I can do this......right...I have cling wrap and the regular heat lamp which is currently shining on my surviving gosling.....
I feel ****** if I do and ****** if I don't......THIS right here is why I will NEVER allow another clutch to be sat upon! It is entirely WAY TOO stressful come hatch time.....anyway....ANYONES input is VERY Welcome......please....
I cannot afford an incubator so let's rule that option out at this point
No marks on them like she may have attacked them? I had a broody duck a couple years ago that was an awesome broody then come hatch day first duckling she attacked as soon as it hatched, I wasn't sure at first what was going on so I slipped it back under her but she attacked it's lil head so I had to take it away, it was clearly an attack here though, next year I was ready to intervene and she was an awesome mom. Difference between first timers I guess, although I've have had other first time moms do a great job of mothering. This is my first time with a broody goose.
