What do baby Pilgrims look like?

mommagoose

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Apr 18, 2007
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Ok, I hatched two baby Pilgrim Geese and they are obviously the same sex BUT which is it? The geese are gray with white edges( under wings and a little yellow on neck and tail. The beaks are spotted like freckles . Are these both males? I think so, too bad if they are. I have 4 more eggs in the incubator but the weather has been really rough and the eggs are not drying down as much as I like. The air cell looks like 3 weeks but they should be pipping in two days
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. I have removed the water from the incubator completely. The humidity in the house is 49% and we have flooding in the backyard. Hope the goslings do not pip and then drown from the humidity. What a rough weather year so far. The first two hatched goslings were from a different batch of 4 eggs. One egg was not fertile and the other stopped growing at 2 weeks. The babies are soo sweet but I need a couple of girls to go with them.
Linda
 
If the air cells look like 3 weeks I wouldn't worry about it too much. I have some eggs in the bator that have air cells like a 1-2 week egg that have external pips on the shell.

A picture would help but it's hard to tell when you only have one sex.
 
Hello, from up the highway in Sidney. Agree with you 100% on the terrible weather. Can't wait for the April showers (or rain storms in this years weather) to end. New to geese ourselves, we have 4 sebastopols, month and a half old.
Blow up the raft again for Tuesday and Wednesday! Good luck with the eggs!
 

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