Well, we lost the first one.

The first gosling didn't manage to pip the shell. I'm pretty sure it suffocated. I don't know if it would have survived if I'd realized sooner that it needed help. I am way out of my league. I was right that it was ready to hatch, it just couldn't manage things on it's end. Probably the lack of humidity, but maybe we handled it too much and confused it. I really didn't expect much when I stuck the eggs under the chickens in the first place. I didn't think much past the keeping them warm for a month. It never occurred to me that we'd get them that far then loose them in the hatching. More the fool me.



Not feeling too optimistic right now about the next one. We should know one way or the other by Thursday.

ETA: Okay, I can't add. Saturday, we should know by Saturday. That will be 28 days after putting the egg under the hens. If it develops like the last one, the internal hatching should start Friday night, and external pipping should happen by Saturday, if not I may have to help. Then it'll be touch and go for up to two days after that. So really, this should all be over by Monday, one way or the other.