What is going on with my hatch??

[nsanywhere]

Need some help please.....

This is my 4th year of goslings from my Sebastopol breeding pair. They have done a great job in the past, hatching out all but 1 egg, the usual dud. This year, something is off. I think.

Friday, 1 gosling hatched out, dried off, healthy peeping, yippee! Right on schedule, despite chilly temps (I'm in the northeast). So I expected the remaining 7 eggs to hatch over the weekend. Its now Monday and still nothing. Not a single pip.

The Friday gosling was about ready for food and water, but mama goose isn't getting off the nest, so I gave the gosling to a friend. She has a female sitting on infertile eggs and was SO happy to have a baby. My friend checked them hourly - all was well, bonding, happy peeping, snuggling under the wing, drink of water and a snack, etc.

But on a late afternoon check, she found the gosling dead under her goose. :-( It wasn't more than hour since her last check. So sad.

Now I'm really wondering what is going on. I've never had one hatch but not the rest. I have no reason to think the other eggs are infertile, do I?

Any one have words of wisdom to offer?

 

[RURU]

With Sebastopols each year can be different on the hatching of goslings. Last year I had 90 sebastopol eggs and only 1 gosling out of 90 eggs hatched. I do know why though. I feed too much protien to them throught the winter. With sebastopols you have to cut the protien down to 15% or 16% so they do not develope fat around the fertility glands. This is what can happen if you keep them on too high of protien.

Everyone who breeds sebastopols know that each year can be totally different then other years. I had an egg for two days was rocking like crazy and then it just stopped and I do believe that it died in the shell. It is due today and nothing is happening now so guess we lost that gosling.

If conditions are not just right many things can go wrong with a hatch.

 

[EmAbTo48]

I have a female this year that her eggs have been coming up about 75% infertile...Then on top of it she had some crazy werid egg that was fertilzed with her stuff and our males like 8 times it look like chicken pox all over the yolk...


I will let her breed again next year check her eggs but if it doesn't change i will no longer be hatching her eggs incase of issues with her. I also am blaming this ridiclous weather we are having we are in NW wiscosin it is mid April here and it looks like December with the snow we have UGH I WANT MY SPRING! lol!