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So I cracked a little open and it seemed the membrane was still full of liquid so I opened it up and sure enough there was a tiny bit of pink in there, perhaps the size of a jelly bean, nothing else. EDIT: Nothing in the only one that remained either. Time to turn off the incubator :(

I I'll try find the smallest drill bit I can that's enough to get through it with by hand. Would I see movement if it was alive still?

Yeah, I believe 1 of the 2 remaining is a dud so 4/5 dud and one possibly going just before hatch by a matter of hours Is there anything I can do? I feel like there may have been a tiny bit of movement a couple of days ago but over time gradually as opposed to suddenly. I know cracking the...

92 or so hours after the membrane seemed to come away from the shell on 1 egg and nothing. Other egg seems a dud but going to keep them going anyway, hoping that tiny % pays off but expecting nothing now. Man this sucks!

Well 24 hours has made a big difference. Day 51, 72 hours after signs popping was just around the corner and nothing. I've gone from having real hope and almost expecting a hatch any second to expecting nothing now pretty much. No sounds, no movement, no pip. Off to work now but seems to me its...

Would there be much movement as it breaks through the membrane by chance? Or is it quite a natural process that doesn't involve much rolling around?

Still nothing yet - about 48 hours now since it first started sounding like one was porcelain - should I be getting worried anytime soon with it having "come away" from the shell or am I just an impatient child on Christmas Eve? :barnie

Still nothing yet on that egg although the other, which hasn't moved at all that I have spotted, is starting to develop that same porcelain sound. Not massively hopeful about that one though. Just watching hours tick by now it seems!

Awesome, perfect timing there as I've just weighed for Week 7 and was in the process of turning. Still no pipping, as of course the new week of work looms. Here's hoping I don't miss much!

I don't hear anything as of yet but I suppose it could be anytime now or as far as a couple of days time. Whichever, I'm awaiting eagerly! I should still be turning until the outside of the shell has been "breached", right?

Food has just arrived, not a whole lot of movement so I feel like it's the calm before the storm, the last nap in the shell perhaps (but I don't even know if that's a thing).

Yeah I'm going to wait a while before throwing away the other. Just tried to test with a whistle but my guy/gal must be asleep right now! Thanks for the tips!

I thought I'd read this somewhere! So now a couple of little questions: How long should I leave them in the incubator after the chick is out of the egg completely? How long does hatching tend to take? What's the normal length of time between pipping and hatching also? This is so exciting!

So the one that seems to have moved a fair bit has gone very "porcelain" upon tapping the shell, is this a sign of potential hatching soon or a bad sign? No internal pipping seems to have occurred yet. I could just have been completely wrong and the movement is coincidence or whatever, but I'm...

Seems like an egg moved a little overnight, same one as has wobbled before, about 4am it decided to roll a little to one side. Day 48 now so could begin pipping anytime now potentially! Found this Ostrich grower feed that's available in the UK, does it look any good for emus? Obviously I'd be...

Ok. I'm gonna attempt to get some grower ratite feed (any brand recommendations would be amazing, must be available for UK though) and an infrared heater lamp.

Is there anything known that I can do to test for signs of life? They definitely are keeping their heat still at one end, though I imagine a liquid would if there was an area of gas at the other end by comparison, but they don't seem to wiggle when I whistle whilst leaving them out for 5-10...

So I still haven't spotted any real movement from the eggs (since the couple of possible wobbles shown before) on Day 45 now - is this considered normal or should I be seeing an increase in responsiveness etc?

A greater mistake has never been made. The smell has crawled around the entire house and the egg basically exhaled as I broke the shell telling me it had been infected for quite some time. The cost of my mistake may still last a few days more yet...

So TIL don't blow out an egg you think might be infected *inside* the house. I'll confess, I didn't think about it much, just figured it'd be better to drain it (no outside drainage). 1 definitely infected but possible signs of life at a very early stage but with black growths inside which...