Please Help! Incubating and Hatching Goose Eggs

[Nickiet21]

1. 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 also has my absolute favorite Geese. I'm not sure at all what the name is, but they are the tall white ones with orange beaks, others are grey, and some grey and white, most likely because they are free range and breed as they like. Anyhow, I get my eggs from the farmer who takes me all around his farm and we take 1-2 eggs from the mothers on their nests.. (I actually cry a little, because I feel so bad for the mom's) here's where my first problem lies, we have zero clue when they were laid, how long they've been sat on. Thus making that more difficult to incubate precisely. To get to my next and main point, I had my first Gosling of the season (from same time collected and incubated) hatch last week,and she/he is perfect! I have to throw in how much I love them, and the fact they know my voice and think I'm their Momma! Anyway, 2 days ago I noticed that another egg had movement, and yesterday when I checked, to my joy, could hear pecking and peeping! Later in the evening there was the first pip! I have been looking into the incubator periodically ever since. About an hour ago, the adorable baby had his whole body out (already, which was less than 24 hours)! But his entire yolk sac was still attached and that was still attached inside the egg with what I am assuming is the veins and membranes? I wet warm paper towles, and put them under carefully. He seems totally fine, but I am super concerned! He really isn't thrashing around much so I dondo think he will accidentally rip apart from it. Before making this post, I googled the issue, and that's how I wound up here. I read quite a bit of different tips and things to do. I went with gently sliding his back end and body back into the egg and put him into a disposable coffee cup and back into the incubator. He is still breathing steadily and chirping. Please, give me your opinions, and tell me if you think I did the right thing!??? Thank you so much!
2. Here is my poor baby I am so concerned about, then my first hatchling of the season.
   
   

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Hi &

My first top tip is to read this guide ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed.491013/
I have found it invaluable during my incubation of goose eggs.

Your gosling that is in the cup, did it zip the egg itself? You have certainly done the right thing by putting it in the cup. If it can absorb everything without rupturing anything it should have every chance of surviving.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Congrats on your goslings! x2 on @Yorkshire Coop's post regarding keeping the gosling in the shell and in the cup until absorbed...good job!

From the description and the photo of the fluffy gosling, they look like they could be Pilgrim geese. I just hatched a group recently that looks very similar.

Best wishes for your "cup" gosling to absorb its yolk and be up and about soon!