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Yeah Moonjelly!!! Good wishes from me, too My one remaining egg is past the week 5 mark. No motion, though I know that's not conclusive. More worrisome is that I did a chill test yesterday and there was no residual warmth. OTOH, my previous dud egg had a warm spot that stayed warm for a...

When S.E. has recovered from surgery, I wish we could chip in to buy him one of these...! This kind of microphone focuses on the individual sound and cuts away (most of) the extraneous sounds. I think bird vocalizations are one of my favorite parts of bird behavior. Their hearing is so much...

Wow... I wonder if the dead-in-shell and died-during-hatch were predominantly female. With humans it's the males that are more vulnerable genetically because of the Y chromosome -- males get stuck with the sex-linked mutations (such as hemophilia). But with birds it's the opposite, males are...

Thank you for the warm welcome and the info to check out! (Yeah I'm a she) I was thinking of eggs because we've hand-raised all sorts of birds, and it's so cool when you know them since they were babies. Our 3 Easter Eggers are really tame because my son treated them like kittens when they...

Hello Serama people! (Is this the right thread to say hello in?) This is my first year for incubating eggs. I incubated 5 emu eggs this spring. Two were damaged in shipping, two were sterile, and the last one is "due" in 2 weeks. I suspect it's another dud though But now I have the...

Another weighing -- progress still looks OK even though it has been very humid here for the past few days. However -- I don't notice a warm end / cool end to the egg, like I would expect for an air cell. This might not be my year for an emu... I'm starting to research other possibilities for...

Wonderful news! I hope he keeps progressing. It's always hard to lose a critter, but when there's young kids involved it's even more traumatic. I really hope things continue to go well.

Just amazing! I was grinning from ear to ear when I read this.

What's the "flaring" thing like? Are there sounds that go with it? PS-- I agree, great pics!

OK, I double-checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins Quote: I just checked my bird vitamin powder (LaFeber's) and it had all 8, listed under their names (niacin, thiamine, folic acid etc).

They are all different -- but if you get something called "B Complex vitamins" it has all of them. My dr. has me take extra vitamin B complex because apparently us old f@rts don't absorb them as well. Also, interesting sidenote, people who are alcoholics can become very deficient in B1 (=...

Check out this quote -- seems to be saying, there's several possible causes I'm going to guess that vitamin / mineral deficiency is the most common reason, more so than the viral diseases.The vitamin content in the pelleted feed goes down as it gets older / stale, or if the fat content...

I think Yoda's chick Callisto had that neck problem. I just looked and found part of the story on pg 24 - 29 of the Hatch-a-long thread. Callisto recovered from the neck problem, but then developed other problems If I'm remembering right, there were some other chicks with it, too. I think it...

Here is the graph for my Very Last Egg. Looks to be on track so far! I think the slight variations in the graph relate to weather (humidity).

I hope it works out for you! When they come of age, are you going to "encourage" them to pair up in a particular way? Or are you going to let them choose by themselves?