incubating goose eggs

Hi everyone, I am on day 7 of incubation my Sebastopol geese eggs. This thread is for others to post their candeling pictures I’ll be posting mine every few days. I have never incubated eggs before and decided to start with the expensive Sebastopol goose eggs because I am impatient and didn’t...

I was quite surprised to discover that my Pilgrim eggs in lockdown (I lock down 5 days prior to hatch) were externally pipped, already, this afternoon. :thI cranked up the humidity and am ready for hatchlings, but this is 2 days early. The incubator was running a bit on the high side for...

I’ve had about three goose eggs that have started foaming over the time I’ve been incubating and two that look mucky inside, but have not foamed or started oozing. I know it usually means the egg was laid with bacteria in the egg that grows and kills the chick, but was there nothing at all I...

I'm currently incubating 4 pilgrim goose eggs that I ordered online. I had an issue with my scales at the start of incubation (whoops) and so have to disregard my initial weights on arrival unfortunately. Since resuming weighing at Day 9 each egg has lost approx. 1g per day, and I've been...

The experience and knowledge shared in this Place is invaluable. Though I have not been a member, I have read very useful information from this place for a long time. I keep Turkeys and Guinea Fowls, I only recently started keeping Geese. Once my Geese had started laying I gave the eggs To my...

So, I was waiting for someone to make this thread but I got a suprise this morning on the 1st of January 2020 which forced me to start the 2020 Gosling Hatch-A-Long :) I've never had a goose egg this early and everyone here is suprised but yet again not suprised because the mating, fighting and...

Hey everyone! This is my third year incubating chicken, ducks,and goose eggs. I don't have any eggs from my own flock because I still do not have a rooster! Anyway, I get my eggs from local farmers all around me. One in particular has a huge dairy farm with several giant ponds and streams. It...

I just set 10 Pilgrim goose eggs in the incubator. Am following @pete55's guide to hatching geese...it worked well for me when I hatched my Chinese goose eggs last year. I'm in an incubating frenzy! It's spring, temps are nice, and eggs are hatching! :jumpy Wish me luck...looking forward to...

I’m looking to add a goose or two to our family (Toulouse, preferably). I’ve incubated and hatched eggs successfully in the past, including different types of waterfowl and game birds. I would love to incubate and hatch our future gosling(s), but I am having a heck of a time finding fertile...

I am incubating goose eggs shipped from three different sources. One batch has developed very large, saddle shaped air cells and one egg from another batch has a worryingly small air cell. They are in the same incubator and nearing the lock-down period. Attempts to shrink the large air cells...