This just isn't my year for hatching. As I stated previously, after losing perfectly good goslings in my hatcher, I threw it away and decided to hatch the last two hatches in the bottom of my cabinet 1502 Sportsman incubator. I will not intentionally do that again. I could not get the humidity to go up over 34% (I try to get up to 80% for hatching) and the babies kept getting shrink wrapped in the egg membrane. My hatcher that I threw away that I had used for many years was a still air. The cabinet incubator was not. So I helped where I could. On hatch C, I hatched 6 live goslings. Then a couple of days later, three died. My assumption is that the heated shelf, which I have used for a couple of years without any problems, was not warm enough when our heat pump went out and the house got cold. Hatch D, my last hatch, ended up with one surviving gosling. Lots of frustration on my end. My final count was 15 hatched, 9 survived and only 3 are female. I'm hoping next year is better.
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I decided to only do four hatches this year. Hatch A started with 7 fertile eggs. Three made it to externally pipped but then died. I couldn't figure it out but I suspected the hatcher...separate from the incubator. Two others did make it and are growing well. Hatch B started with 7 eggs also and after one reached externally pipped and then died, I threw the hatcher away. I put the remaining eggs in the bottom of the cabinet incubator and three hatched. I'm currently waiting on Hatch C with 6 eggs still going and Hatch D will be next weekend with 10 eggs still going. My first two hatches gave me three blue goslings and two lavender ones. Hoping for a few more babies!
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