Goose Egg Candling Day 25 and increasing humidity. Lockdown. UPDATE IN INFO

[renuxgraffiti]

booooo

[Vacho321]

Hi I have a Question to ask is it okay to wash the eggs with water and can you put it in the incubator, because I washed my eggs with water cause it was dirty. I only use a little bit water, and I want to know can I still incubate my eggs!

[EdentiaFarms]

@Vacho321 You can incubate washed eggs but it is better not to wash them. They have a protective barrier on them that becomes washed away. I have had success both ways. Good luck.

[khonglap]

Does your homemade incubator work for geese ?. Have you ever try it ?.

Thanks

[EdentiaFarms]

@khonglap

I doubt that I would get a good hatch in the homemade incubator. I'm sure if I loaded it with eggs that I would get a small percentage to hatch but I wouldn't even try it with the homemade incubator I have now. I am currently using that incubator to keep the waterfowl squirt bottle of water warm. It would incubate them but the conditions are not as steady as the incubator I have them in now. Although it could be improved to be better suited to waterfowl.

[EdentiaFarms]

Hi guys, 7 out of 8 of the goose eggs have pipped so there are little holes in all the shells. I am going to make a video of the hatch, edited from pip to hatch because hatch can take DAYS for a gosling. The babies are squeaking at me and I am just melting!

[805Soap]

Oh boy baby geese! You are one busy lady, you forgot to mention raising a family too, I am sure its not all that fun some days but your rewards are great! You are doing an awesome job!!!! I love watching your videos and think you are a very smart woman who gets the job done.

[EdentiaFarms]

THE GOOSE EGGS STARTED WIGGLING TODAY!!!!! :D

[applepilgrim1]

That's so cool mine r at day 15 and looking good I am so glad I started with geese cause ther fun

[dave1212ish]

bonnie are they hard to raise because im thinking about trying to hatch some

[EdentiaFarms]

@dave1212ish

No, they are easy to raise. They are full grown in one month and you don't even have to feed them. They are pros at foraging. Although they will be nicer to you if you give them a grain ration daily. I give a handful per bird. They need another goose or duck because they are social and would not be happy alone. Other than that they are pretty easy-going. Also, they need flock raiser as goslings. No medicated feed. Or just weeds if you are training weeders.

[dave1212ish]

@EdentiaFarms thank you so much is there a sight or something that you know of that i can order some eggs from and also one more question do you also have to spray duck eggs

[EdentiaFarms]

@dave1212ish

You can usually get goose eggs off ebay of course its risky but I had good luck with that. You can try craigslist. I don't think any hatcheries will sell their eggs.

[EdentiaFarms]

I am also spraying duck eggs because the storey book recommends it but my duck eggs are my first so I don't have duck egg experience.

[dave1212ish]

@EdentiaFarms oh ok because i've incubated duck eggs many times before but i have bad sucess usually about 3 out of 10 will hatch for me lol im not that great with incubating duck eggs

[Seedcovers]

How do you run the farm by yourself? You have so many things you do.

[EdentiaFarms]

@Seedcovers

Good Question. I don't do everything myself. I do all the birds and bees and a fair share of gardening. We have one hired farm hand who does lots of work plus I live next door to my in-laws and we have a shared family farm. I provide chicken meat and eggs for both families and honey when it's available. We have a give and take where different family members do different things. We have a carpenter, an aspiring mechanic and gramma baby-sits sometimes. We are a large extended family.

[Seedcovers]

@EdentiaFarms How cool it that, everybody shares and works.

[mrscrafty100]

So cool, I cant wait to see them all! =)