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So, thank you to everyone who responded with ideas. I think I have an answer to what was happening, or at least an close idea. It was probably not a predator issue at all but a humidity issue. In the time since loosing the first clutch, we have had record breaking rainfall in our area, more...

Well, we haven't gotten a game cam, but did have a plot twist. The last of the first clutch was destroyed and we have gotten all but one piece for our incubator, so we started collecting the new eggs for incubation. In the process of that, we went through some of the nesting materials for the...

I didn't know the goose is supposed to do that. We have hatched out a number of times successfully and ours never seemed to. They just left the shells for the chickens. Our broodies do seem to be a bit lacking in the natural instinct department though! Even had one mama goose up and abandon her...

These are broken completely, but no residue inside. It is like the eggs hatched successfully, but some of them were definitely too early to do that.

Yeah, I was just talking about that with my folks. We don't have any cams right now but it might be a good investment. I was thinking that a snake would swallow them whole, but was wondering if it depended on the size of snake. My folks just mentioned they had smelled a skunk a couple times, so...

Do you have any good ways to check to see if it is a snake? I would trust my dog to know, but the dogs my folks have now haven't been trained by me personally. I am really getting frustrated with the situation.

I thought of that, but haven't seen any signs. Our birds usually eat or kill them. The only snake I have seen them back away from was a bull snake about ten years ago that was as long as my car. We haven't seen any sign of that snake or relatives of it since, and he was heading off the property...

Hello. I share a flock of Embdens with my folks, with almost 20 some geese right now. At least six of the geese started building clutches this spring. It is not the first year--we had about the same number try to set last year, but had something raiding the nests at night taking almost hatched...