telow6848
In the Brooder
- Aug 5, 2016
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Whoa . . . here we go.
I have nothing to say about incubation.
But if you find member 'Supreme Emu,' that 's me. My posts go way back. And in the threads over years have been repeated conversations about inbreeding in the U.S. emu gene pool: it's been illegal for decades to export emus from Oz, so . . .
The issue in the history of the posts here was splay leg. Now, my perspective is emus in the wild. My thought was: could we get enough data to compare splay-leg frequency in U.S.-incubated chicks with wild chicks here in Rothschildi territory? I doubt it. At least it would take years of data-collection. But there seemed to be a lot of folks with incubated chicks with splay leg.
P.s.: on a cheery note: don't know about the beak problem; but we had a one-eyed wild emu under observation here for months. His name was 'Audacious Emu,' and he was a survivor! When I first observed him through the binos, I could see he carried his head tilted, but it took me some time to figure out he was one-eyed. A one-eyed emu can live an okay life.
Supreme Emu
That is very good to hear about the one eye thing. We were quite worried. As for the beak we have been training it with tape. We did it full time for the first couple days when it still had its yolk sac and now it just gets done at night. It’s starting to straighten but we just aren’t sure about it for the long term. Hoping we can get it better than it is now.