Effie

You are probably wondering who or what an Effie is.
This is the incubator on top of our dryer in the laundry room once again.  Before dad left to go to Bar Harbor, he "stole" eggs out of the nesting boxes and put them inside the incubator.

 Do you see the puncture in the egg with an F right up front?
 The F on the eggs means "fertile". Dad candled them before he left and we did have some duds in the bunch that were tossed.  Dad wasn't sure about one of the eggs so that's why one egg has a Q.  

 Meet Effie!   She is a gosling and heaven only knows who her mom and dad are.    No worries, Effie. I'm Uncle Mitch and we have that straight,okay! 

 There are other eggs in the incubator and so far, none have pipped and we don't hear chirpies coming from inside and we don't see the eggs rolling around so we wait..............

 We hope you have a goosey sibling to keep you company, Effie!

Update~~
Effie is 1.5 days old~

 And we have pippage!  This egg is the smallest of the bunch so is this a Barnacle goose egg? The Barnacle geese were in the nesting box before Huey and one of the Grey Lag geese tossed them out and we think they might have laid an egg and the Grey Lag was sitting on it inside the nesting box.   
That's the egg tooth that you see in the picture.  He's hatching his way out. 

 This gosling is very quiet.  He's not chirping much at all.  Effie is cheering him on to hurry it up!

We're joining red nose day~
No child should have to live life in poverty.

So until next time.............

Love ya lots♥
Mitch and Molly