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    Looking For Emu Eggs

    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...
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    Looking for any Kind of Double Yolk Eggs, Also Interested in Other Eggs of Interesting Species/Breed

    Hello. I am currently setting up an experiment on the survivability of double yolked eggs, as I am a biology student. Therefore, I am in need of as many double yolked eggs as I can find of any species. I have a lot of experience assisting hatches, and I'd like to have some twins. Chickens and...
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    Double yolk eggs of any kind wanted

    Hello. I am currently setting up an experiment on the survivability of double yolked eggs, as I am a biology student. Therefore, I am in need of as many double yolked eggs as I can find of any species. I'll pay for them, but hopefully less than normal since they're not usually used for hatching...
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    The Emu Twin Experiment

    Hello everyone! So, a while back I found this very interesting article detailing the development and genetic testing of the first known set of identical avian twins... A pair of female emu chicks born in 1994! (https://eurekamag.com/pdf/003/003152379.pdf) Imagine my surprise and excitement...
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    Looking for Double Yolk Eggs of Any Kind for a school Project

    Hello. I am a college student and I have decided to do a somewhat unusual research project; I would like to study twinning in birds, examine the DNA of twinned birds or embryos, as well as explore methods of increasing hatch rates for these twins as I understand only about one percent make it...
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    A question on antibiotics for newly hatched chicks?

    So I've just hatched out a batch of duck eggs, and while two are healthy and fine, I have two more that aren't doing so well. Both had to be helped to hatch, and one is still partly in his egg, absorbing yolk. These babies are nearly a week past their hatching day, and like I said one still has...
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    What to do about eye injuries in Chicks

    Alright, so some mystery beast has been killing our chickens, usually by ripping them apart and eating varying amounts between just a little and everything but the legs/wing ends. We secured our coop in every way possible, and we thought it would be fine. We were wrong, and the creature got in...
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    Dumor Layer Crumbles Question

    Is this feed medicated? Are layer feeds medicated in general? I am on a quest to find non-medicated feed to feed to an emu chick, and others who raise them say that layer crumbles are good but they need non-medicated feed and the package does not say, nor did the store workers know.
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    Feeding baby Emu?

    So, one of my eggs has hatched, and it's three, going on four days old now! I couldn't find any ratite starter, but others who raise the chicks say they use chick starter and layer feed with good success, but it must be non medicated.. So, other emu people on here, what is best? I have Dumor...
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    What is This?

    So, I've been hatching and raising chicks of various kinds for as long as I can remember, I've had everything from chickens and ducks and geese to rescued songbird chicks. During this time I've had the occasional death, even outbreaks of, a strange and usually fatal illness. I'd like to know...
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    Hatching Peafowl as Pets?

    Hi, so I posted this on one of the "sticky" informational threads but I've seen people on there instructing others to make their own threads as that is not often checked. I am not exactly likely to get peafowl in the near future, I currently have many chickens and three emu eggs incubating so...
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    A Problem With an Incubator? What could be the issue here?

    So, I got a new incubator for Christmas of this year, it's the largest I've ever had as I once put 40 chicken eggs in it [could technically take more, but I only have one shelf, and besides the eggs all turned out to be too old anyway], and it's originally for reptile eggs. After the initial...
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    Egg Incubating and Assisted Hatching Stories

    Hello. So I'm putting this up her mostly to share my experiences in hatching eggs and to compare with the experiences and methods of others. I also hope to provide evidence against the idea that any egg that is helped to hatch will definitely die in the near future, as I've seen that far too...
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    An Emu Egg Emergency [Please help?]

    So, I came home today to find my incubator has somehow become unplugged. It had been maybe six hours and the temperature on top of the eggs was 75 degrees. They are on day 11. How likely is it that this killed my eggs?
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    Hatching Emu eggs, have some questions that need answering fast

    So, I've just got my first three emu eggs. They are shipped eggs and were allowed to sit for about six hours before being put in the incubator, which is at about 36 degrees celcius. As far as I've researched this is the right temperature, and humidity will be determined by both weight loss [I've...
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    First time hatching Emus, some fairly urgent questions

    So, I've just got my first three emu eggs. They are shipped eggs and were allowed to sit for about six hours before being put in the incubator, which is at about 36 degrees celcius. As far as I've researched this is the right temperature, and humidity will be determined by both weight loss [I've...
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