Which BYC member scares you?

[Isadora]

A lot of mine do that. I way prefer letting the geese hatch their own.

Nothing glaringly obvious then that I did wrong?

 

[ColtHandorf]

Nothing glaringly obvious then that I did wrong?

No, although it might have been the humidity. Mine hatched perfectly in the incubator with the turner going. I had to assist way more in the hatcher with higher humidity. And when the humidity got low, they did better. I also pulled them out and misted and cooled this year, which I did not do last year.

 

[ColtHandorf]

You might ask Pyxis. She's really good with geese.

 

[Painted Calls]

Meh. Her's practically beg to be put on the grill.

 

[ColtHandorf]

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[Isadora]

Well, now I'm trying not to cry. My goose eggs were on day 36 so I figured there was no way they were alive. I candled them a couple times after the 30-day mark because I wanted to check for internal pips but there was nothing.
Opened up all four and they were all fully formed but never pipped. Now I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong. Perhaps my humidity was too high before lockdown? I kept it at 45% and then 70-75% at lockdown. Even more frustrating was that I've had incubator issues in the past with the humidity and I was able to troubleshoot and fix the issue this time. To have all of them dead in the shell practically kills me. They all looked like this when I opened them up
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@Pyxis any thoughts on what I might have done wrong?

 

[Isadora]

I don't know... She looks like she's hoping Mare's going to throw her a piece of burger.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I don't know... She looks like she's hoping Mare's going to throw her a piece of burger.

Do ducks like their beef raw?

 

[Isadora]

Do ducks like their beef raw?

Mine do

 

[Isadora]

On butcher days we usually toss them a bunch of fresh hearts. They go crazy.