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    Emu behavior: training chicks not to nip hard

    Hello, Question for people who raise chicks! I currently have an emu chick and am curious how people train and work with them as babies. For background, I was incubating multiple eggs (full story on a previous post!) and he is the only one that made it due to a faulty incubator. I currently...
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    Emu hatching and incubator help

    Here is the (to my knowledge) healthy baby! Just put the 3 new eggs into the Nurture Right 360, so hopefully little dude will have some friends in few months!
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    Emu hatching and incubator help

    Thank you everybody for your responses! I have an update: Bad news is none of the original batch of eggs hatched, still incubating some of the later ones they gave me. Good news is I figured out the problem--turns out that large incubator straight up cooked the eggs. I got a temp gun and when I...
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    Emu hatching and incubator help

    Hello emu lovers, I've been attempting to hatch emu eggs but have not been successful and am looking for some advice. For background: I work at a small zoo with some younger emus (probably around a year now), and some of our older emus out in the safari have been laying eggs and I've been...
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    Sick Emu Chick

    Poor thing, I hope it worked out! Did you figure out what was wrong?
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    Sick baby Rhea's?

    Sorry to hear about your chicks, I hope they've been doing alright. I am fairly new to this but have been working with baby emus and rheas for a few months now, and I agree that ratite starter would be the best option to feed. Ratites like emus and rheas are naturally deficient in a few key...
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    Rhea chick help; syringe feeding

    Second update (I guess you can only edit something once?): vet currently has the chick. Hopefully she can work her magic, or at least figure out why we've lost them all. Still would love to hear any suggestions on what I could do in the future if something like this were to happen again! Always...
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    Rhea chick help; syringe feeding

    Thank you! That is what I have been doing, and it seems to be working. Fingers crossed the vet will be able to help, or at least figure out what's wrong.
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    Rhea chick help; syringe feeding

    Edit: 6am and she is doing better! Enough energy to fight syringe feeding, but still not eating or drinking on her own. She is also having trouble standing, and it looks like her toes are curled. Will attach a picture, is this normal? I think I remember for many birds that curled is the relaxed...
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