Posts by marathonmultiplesmom

I used a humidity gauge my first year and decided it was too wildly inaccurate and caused me to question and over-analyze things. I had terrible hatches constantly messing with everything. And, that was just for chicken eggs. I ditched...

We now have 2 emus! Yay! Of my original 3 eggs, one was infertile and 2 hatched. Pretty good for my first try. Must be beginners luck ;-) Our second emu hatches... Two emus and a goose snuggle...

Here is the video of my first ever emu chick hatching. Still waiting on the other egg.

Our Thing 2 hatched at 12:04AM and it was way too big after hatching to stay in the incubator. We snuggled for about 2 hours until dry until he/she could go into the brooder. Yikes, tired night. My other egg is wiggling and whistling...

  Quote: Originally Posted by Pollitollito  I opened all the eggs to clean and guess what, from 13 eggs there was a total of 1 chick hatched but died the firs 25 hours after, 3 not so developed chicks dead and...

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's day 49.  

I second that! I am forever scarred by an exploding goose egg... it was terrible!!! It was EVERYWHERE!!! The horror!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't imagine THAT with an EMU EGG.  My infertile egg was losing weight, too. Eventually, it...

I have wigglers! Day 36 and I'm getting anxious. So sad to hear about the ones who are losing emu babies.  It's making me nervous. One of my eggs is following 15% weight loss on the chart exactly and the other one isn't...

After my unfortunate stinky Earl... the egg that got blown...   THING-2 Wiggled! Yay! So, I definitely have at least one fertile egg. And, I'm sure it wiggled this time. Both me and dh saw it wiggle twice. I think it was on...

Thank you! What a great help you are! I blew the egg. There were yellow chunks and liquid, maybe early death or infertile? I'm not experienced enough to say but I did get a video!   Quote: Originally Posted by...