My friend and I found baby geese eggs... how do you take care of them to make them hatch?

You have to keep them warm until they hatch. there reallt isn't a whole lot else that you can do until they are hatched!!!

i can say for 95% certainty they wont be alive. If the mother had "ditched" them then they were probably botch eggs and you should have checked first if the eggs were warm-she may have just gone for a drink or to eat. eggs need to be kept at a certain temp (usually around 35-37) and if they are off temp for an hour or more they will die or become severly damaged. you need a proffesional incuabtor that self turns the eggs. there is a way to see if they are alive- place the egg in a hole in a sheet of cardboard so that it fits snuggly half way down the egg. hold the egg in front of a light or to the sun (not strong heat) and hold your hand steady-can you see a shape? can u see a heartbeat? (hard to see unless the geese is near ready to hatch). even if the goosling were alive if you didnt have a proffesional incubator you could either take them to a vet, zoo, wildlife center or proffesional on poultry or one person could hold the eggs in there hands to keep them at body temp every minute until they hatch (yea right) also there is another dilemma even if they do hatch-newborn chicks are so hard to feed because the airway and easophages are near eachother and our good intentions end in choking for the chicks. if you want baby geese go to a professional breeder or watch out for nests with hatched babies already. if your not sure put the eggs back as soon as possible and the mother geese will return if she owns them-if not and they are botch eggs they will be gotten rid of naturally. not trying to turn you off baby birds-but ive tried hatching eggs-it does not work and the birds end up victims of our mistakes. hopefully ive offered you some insight into your problem.

You should NEVER take eggs out of a nest...the mother could have been away foraging. Females can stay off the nest for up to 40 minutes, so there may be a mother goose out there searching for her eggs right now. You also broke the law if you live in the US, all migratory birds are protected by law. If it was not an active nest, if the mother was killed or abandoned the nest, then the eggs will most likely not hatch as they may have been out in the cold too long, or the abandonment may have been because the eggs were unviable and would not have hatched even with the mother sitting on them. In the future, leave eggs alone! You may have just killed two geese while trying to save them!!!

They probably are alive good eggs .If there were only 2 eggs .The goose will lay one egg a day until she gets the nest full before she starts to set on them They wont hatch until she starts setting on them 24 /7 .If you would have just taken 1 egg and left 1 she will keep laying an egg usually each day until she gets the nest full and each day you can take another egg for at least until you have 5 or 6 eggs then when you had as many as you want she will fill the nest and start setting them . By taking both the eggs she will most likely abandon the nest .You shouldn't have wiped the dirt off or cleaned them with water or soap though .Birds have a natural preservative that coats eggs when they lay them .Thats how they can be at I think its 100.6 degrees fairenheight for 28 days and hatch without rotting .If you just wiped them off with a damp cloth .Hopefully they wont be hurt .The reason she doesnt start settiing the eggs until she gets a full nest is so they will all hatch on the same day .If she starteed setting them as soon as she layed one egg by the time she got the nest full the first chick would be 5 days old and starved before the last chick hatched becuse she couldnt leave the nest so it could get feed, so they all have to hatch at the same time.You might look the exact temperature to incubate the eggs, its been awhile since I done it but I think thats right .Its crucial that you have the temperature adjusted correctly and not let it vary after you start .They are best kept in about 65 to 70 degrees and in the dark until you incubate them .When you incubate them they have to be turned daily and a small open container of water in it for moister just one degree to hot or cold while incubating,will kill them make them to weak or cause them to be born with deformed legs and not be able to walk and die after they hatch. The last week before they are ready to hatch you need to sprinkle the shells of duck and geese eggs with water to soften the shells so the babies can get out easier Iwill tell you if they are wild canadian geese they are a lot smarter that tame geese and make really good pets and will follow you every where like they do their mother

in case you have an incubator you may get it to hatch, yet once you may look via it and spot something, this is no longer totally grown (in case you candle an egg at adulthood, the chick takes up sufficient space you won't be in a position to work out interior the path of the egg anymore). So the child is the two lifeless or no longer shaped yet. With the acceptable suited temperature, ideal turning schedule and proper humidity, you may probably get it to hatch, yet no longer understanding what the child chicken will require could mean a tragic dying for it if it does hatch.

First of all, you should not have taken them at all. If they were in a nest, the mother was most likely coming back. You should have observed the nest for signs of the mother coming and going for a long while first.

As someone said above, they are most likely already dead. If the mother was unable to come back for some reason and they were cold for a while, they would not have survived. And, even if they were not cold for long, you’ve most likely killed them by now. It is very difficult to keep eggs alive unless you really know what you’re doing, and “all day” at the wrong temperature would have killed them already.

Most likely they aren't alive....If you found them in the cold, there is no telling how long the mother goose had been gone. She typically sits on them 24/7 or covers them up when she leaves. Maybe you should call a vet and see if they can check them out and put them in an incubator to keep them warm, if they are alive.

you could of taken them off a mother goose she may have gone foraging for food and left them for an hour or 2 first of all did you make sure that she wasn't coming back. You can buy little hatcheries to put the eggs and they keep the eggs warm without you.

You also have to have the humidlty right as well. How many eggs where there. She may have not laid all of her clutch and will be looking for the eggs. They will sit after the normaly finish or close to. Have you chickens or ducks that are sitting on eggs. This would be the best way to do things.

You have to warm them. It would work if you put it under a light bulb thing and made sure it was warm in the room. We hatched chicklets in 4th grade. Make sure you have everything for them to hatch like that stuff you put in hamster cages.