How do i care for the goose egg?
Put the egg back where you found it. A goose will not start incubating her eggs (sitting on them to hatch them) until she lays all of them. If you found just one egg by itself, she just started laying, and she only lays one egg a day. Don’t worry about the mother abandoning the egg now that you have handled it – that is a myth. Birds do not have an acute sense of smell. Wildlife biologists and bird banders handle eggs and baby birds all the time (they are licensed to do so), and the parent birds do not abandon the nest/eggs/babies when they are returned. In the US, all native migratory birds are protected under federal law (Migratory Bird Treaty Act). It is illegal for anyone to possess a protected bird, its nest, its eggs or even its feathers unless they have the required federal and state licenses. It is also illegal to disturb an active nest. Penalties for violating this law include fines of up to $500 and/or up to 6 months in jail for each offense. It doesn’t even matter if you did
