Why aren't my goslings starting to pipe?

[birdsforlife47]

Hi, I've just started incubating geese eggs for the first time and I'm starting to doubt that they would hatch. I kept waiting for them to start piping, and I've seen websites say that they would often hatch OR start piping on the 30th day, but I don't see any cracks! should I worry? I'm really nervous and I keep forcing myself not to open the incubator to check on them because I think it might harm them. But I'm also not sure if I should candle them again to just check if there are any cracks because people say that they are hard to see. I really don't want anything bad to happen and this is my first time hatching them, OMG what should I do?

 

[Pyxis]

What date did you set them? What has your temperature been? Is your incubator still air or forced air? What breed are they?

 

[birdsforlife47]

What date did you set them? What has your temperature been? Is your incubator still air or forced air? What breed are they?

I have a forced air incubator. The temperature was 37.5C and the humidity was 65. I just adjusted the humidity to 70 and temperature to 36.5 yesterday. They are white chinese geese.

 

[Pyxis]

White Chinese are a larger goose, so they may take longer than 30 days to hatch. What date did you set them on? And that 65% humidity, was that just for lockdown or has it been that high the whole time? Hopefully not the whole time, since that's very high to have it for the first part of incubation and could cause issues.

 

[birdsforlife47]

(OMG thankyou so much for replying)

I started to put the eggs in the incubator on the 19th of August.
And it's been 55- 59% for 23-25 days, it changed to 65% because of the day the electricity went out for only 15 minutes or so (sorry I didn't tell you sooner). It has been 65% always after that until I adjusted it to 70% on the 28th day. I didn't know that it would cause issues, are they serious though? Will it stop the incubation? Will it ruin the eggs?

 

[Pyxis]

Well, if the eggs didn't lose enough moisture because the humidity was too high, the goslings will drown in the shell before they hatch, so yes, it is serious, unfortunately. Looks like you're on day 30 today if you set on the 19th. They may still hatch in the next couple of days.