Mama Muscovy has been sitting on the goose eggs I purchased for about 20 days now. Geese take 38-35 days to hatch. In addition to the 8 goose eggs she also had a couple of Saxony duck eggs. Over the last two days she has kicked out 4 goose eggs and the two Saxony eggs. All the eggs were infertile.
She had not left her clutch for a four days so we had not been able to check on how things were going. Today she left to get a drink and some food. We quickly candled the 4 goose eggs that are left. One looks like it should hatch in about a week, while the other three are further behind.To our surprise there was also about 8 Muscovy eggs in the clutch! Obviously mama has been laying and our other Muscovy Figgy has also been laying and Mama has been taking her eggs too!
You have to look carefully (as I'm a twit and used a yellow bowl). The yolk in the bowl is a goose egg. It's huge! Its one of the infertile goose eggs.
A very kind friend bought me an incubator for my Birthday last month. It showed up in the mail yesterday:) It's not big, but it's perfect for emergencies!
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