When to assist? Broken air cell due to shipped egg

[marathonmultiplesmom]

Hi everyone. I have been watching this white chinese goose eggs. They were shipped and out of 4, all of them made it to the hatcher

Except, one has had a pretty jumbled up, busted air cell the whole time and I am planning to assist this egg. Since I normally don't assist unless they are late I was wondering if I assist on the due date (tomorrow) or what? hmmm...
I also have the twin goslings that I will have to assist IF they make it. So, far I'm not convinced they will... But just a good thing to know... when you KNOW there is a problem, when do you plan to assist?

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

I assisted on the due date... and next time I will wait a little longer because it died.

It was just the prettiest little thing and it stayed alive for just a few hours. I couldn't believe it had white down because I expected yellow. Its just too bad. I knew I had to assist because the air cell was really all over the place but now after the fact I wish I would have just taken the shell off the air cell end and left the membrane alone. Well, thats life and we learn as we go. I knew this particular baby might not make it. A couple people told me with an air cell like that not to get my hopes up and they usually lose them but I have 3 more white chinese in the hatcher plus 2 of my embden/pilgrim mixes. I saw 4 of the eggs move today so I'm just waiting. now.

 

[sheena6292]

Sorry it didn't make it.

 

[Kim65]

Awwww

I applaud you for being brave enough to LEARN. It's funny I can talk at work with cancer patients about dying, help the families after the death, but when it comes to a baby animal I am a complete neurotic mess. Each little life lost is a new lesson, saving the life of another one to come along later

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

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Thanks Kim! Life is about learning. I snuggled up with Pipper and Whisper a LOT yesterday after losing the little baby but I am feeling better now. I look at little whisper and he was an assisted hatch and he made it. I did it the same way but sometimes its meant to be and sometimes not.

And for the American Lavender test batch... So far I can't see anything in your eggs but its too soon to tell. I put them in the incubator Monday evening after I tried to candle them. *sometimes* I can see a fertile spot when candling them before the incubator but I can't always see it. I didn't see anything in your eggs but there is still time and I've got my fingers crossed for them, also!

 

[Kim65]

lol thanks for the update

the goose and gander are pretty young, thanks again for taking up your incubator space with the eggs

. I'm happy to hear about all your baby updates, you have a happy flock and hopefully more to come soon!

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

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No problem about the bator space... I stopped pulling eggs so it would have just been empty although I am going to probably put in 6 delaware chicken eggs in a couple weeks... DH is less than thrilled because he gets to listen to me with the squirt bottle since the incubator is next to my bed! haha... but he loves me and all my little "science experiments" as he says.

Since you came to visit and drop off the eggs, we have 6 more chicks but other than that everythings the same. I took Pipper into the orchard today and she followed behind as I fed the chickens and turkeys. The adult geese seemed a little nicer about it today so I feel good about that. My broody becky is getting meaner by the minute as she continues to sit. She won't let me get very close to her anymore so I just toss some food a few feet away from the goose garage and give her space. I've also been trying to get the turkeys strut around for a pic but they will only do that for you I guess... Haven't seen them fan out those tail feathers before or since.