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    Blonde Emu chicks

    Hello everyone, I have a few blonde emu chicks and the season for me is over so this will be it for now. I'm in central Florida. $400 each. Product of a white female and standard male. May ship but buyer has to make arrangements. shoot me a email at hullislandranch at gmail if interested...
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    looking to hatch a ostrich or emu egg in my class

    Do a emu egg. Ostrich egg would be MUCH harder to hatch. Mine have not laid yet, or maybe I have not looked under enough bushes yet :)
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    **Emus sores on head**

    Emus will peck at each other, my first thought is they are doing that to each other. I had to separate a emu earlier this year because the others were drawing blood on his head and neck, making bear patches, etc. .
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    EEE kills three cassowary chicks, who vaccinates?

    Yes I vaccinate my emus once a year at the same time I do my Donkey. Truthfully though if I had a lot of emus I might not, because the three way vaccine I use is not exactly cheep.
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    Why have my Emus started fighting?

    I've recently had to move a male emu into his own pen because the others were picking on him. It would be so much more convenient to just keep them all in one large enclosure, but now I am beginning to see the value of dividing things up into long "runs", like everyone else seems to do.
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    5 day old ostrich chick

    I'm down to one Ostrich chick left out of six. I guess I'll have to try and hatch out a couple more so my lone survivor does not have to grow up alone. I spoke to the head of the Ratite TAG and she stated what I already suspected, that there are zero "pure" sub spieces of Ostrich in this...
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    Ostrich Eggs

    The poster above you should, PM him. I have a few chicks from his eggs at my place now.
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    I've been following this guide for my hatch and brooding: http://www.nzfarmstays.com/Chicks.html The three left seem to be doing good. The smallest (a yolk baby) is up to over 2lbs now, the other two bigger. All eating/drinking well and good bowel movement, even see them pass...
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    Dumb question, but when hobbling Ostrich, does one hobble the ankles and the thighs, or just the ankles? Edit: found the chick weak this morning and by noon it was dead. Upside is the three that are left SEEM strong and healthy and eating well.
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    The current cripple one. He was making zero progress and had one leg stuck out a hole in the egg. Perhaps hurt the leg in that position.
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    eeek, one just died. This little guy went down hard and fast. This was not one of the two show-yolk chicks either, but was a tad smaller then the others. I kinda thought he was sitting down/resting more often then the others yesterday, and today so more of the same and started to take...
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    Shackled him up, but of course he can't (yet?) walk that way and proceeded to scrape his little exposed yolk sack open some. I got him in a bucket now lined with burlap to kind of support him in a upright position. Not optimistic though. How long do Ostrich need to remain "shackled" before...
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    I've used some tape to hobble the two legs closer together. Not 100 percent sure on how closely I should tape the legs together with a ostrich. When the chick sits the legs are both straight and correct, when she stands the bad leg still wants to angle out, despite the tape.
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    Using burlap sack material as flooring in brooder pen for now. Never had them on newspaper or bare concrete. Just now moving them onto sand/dirt/shavings barn floor for exercise during the day. How would one hobble? twine or tape between the legs? I suppose I shall try it.
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    Humidity and Ostrich egg incubation

    Yolksacks seem to be doing fine, but new problem: One of the chick's legs is/has turned out to sort of a 90 degree angle, you all know what I'm talking about... Is this ever a temporary thing? Or basically no hope/a sign it must eventually be culled?
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