Recent content by Erka97

That or your humidity is REALLY off; I've even heard of eggs gaining weight, although that might be equipment error instead.

The weight test is not for telling if anything is developing, it is only for determining if you have the correct humidity. Egg shells are porous, and as the egg incubates, water is lost. That is how you get the weight loss we see with emus and other eggs. Eggs will lose moisture whether or not...

If you don't have an incubator you can also put them in a box under a lamp. I kept eggs alive for days like that as a child, even hatched a few I stole from my family's ducks. I'm sorry about your chick, though.

If you look past the chick into the egg, you should not see yellow egg yolk sac attached to the belly if it's ready to hatch. That should be pulled into the belly and the hole should close up before the chick should be allowed to hatch. There should also be minimal blood visible before hatching...

No more than I already had. I have two now on about day 43. They're both wiggling like crazy, but I'd like to get my hands on a few more to ensure one that hatches is a suitable mate for my current emu.

Both of my eggs are wiggling! That said, I'll be posting my data on their temperatures from the days when I tested them against the bad egg -and also finally getting rid of that bad egg.

Yeah, dud eggs do lose the right amount of weight and everything. My first time I had no idea that one of my eggs was infertile until I drilled a hole after the first egg hatched out. Good luck, though. I always hoped for two but ended up with one; hopefully this hatch will be different and...

Sit them out for ten minutes and feel the ends. The cooler end is the air cell. If you're unable to feel the difference you could test with a thermometer as I had described above. My eggs end up about eight degrees cooler on the air cell end [85 air cell and over 90 elsewhere.] Also, if they're...

That might work. Maybe like a bag usually used for bread? That's what I'm imagining now. I don't use the float test because I don't want to risk damaging the chicks, instead I just sit them on a flat surface and watch and feel for temperature differences. I've predicted one hatch exactly so far...

Yep, absolutely lucky. I can't find anything under 40$ per egg right now. My reptipro type didn't have open/shut vents, and never held temperature right. I don't know how my emu made it, but he's healthy. Decided to take a bath in a 40 degree mud puddle yesterday, the strange bird. Likewise with...

You managed to find white/blonde eggs for sale? That in itself is amazing, besides getting any eggs for free. Making your own incubator is pretty cool too; mine's a bacterial incubator from my college, and soon I hope to switch to a forced air that I bought from the local farm store [if the...

I've seen someone here get eggs after 8 weeks and they still hatched. Still, I don't know how they'd do if not turned, but since you can't know the best thing is just to mark and incubate them and see how they do. I did that with duck eggs that were refrigerated, and they still hatched out well...

Hello everyone, I currently have two emu eggs incubating, but I just got a new incubator for them [I really should be returning the bacterial incubator to my school since both of my double yolks rotted, and anyway my remaining eggs will be half way done in the next few days and will be needing...

That's quite a few eggs, must have been expensive. What kind of incubator are you using? I myself only stopped turning my eggs when I heard the first baby whistling, but I think it's safe to stop anywhere after day 50 or so. It sucks that you can't candle these eggs; I candle everything else...

I think the bacteria might produce some heat, but I'm hoping not much. Also the egg is much larger than the two possibly healthy eggs, meaning it'd hold onto heat a bit better. I really hope mine doesn't explode. The last rotting one I had didn't, but it was cracked so maybe that released the...