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    Low-budget EMU egg incubators? :)

    Ha! Incubators are so easy to make that I'm surprised anyone buys those crazy expensive units. I have hatched 3 emus and 2 ostriches(100% success hatching ostrich which is very hard to do) on an incubator made with a cooler, digital temp controller, and salt based desiccant (50/50 magnesium...
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Good news, the male is doing much better now. Unfortunately our egg #2 was not viable and egg #4 looked like a fully formed chick but didn't absorb it's yoke. As for the male emu we hatched, we gave him save a chick by mouth using a syringe twice a day and then made sure he got up and around as...
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Having a problem with the second chick. It keeps tucking it's head underneath or moving it's head around with it's beak pointing down. Seems lethargic. Hatching went fine and it got out and it's feathers actually dried up pretty fast along with fluffing out but it almost seems like it is getting...
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Oops, forgot to answer your other question. Yea, integrating will take time. She will want them around her size so at least 6months old and then slowly getting her used to them then getting them in the same enclosure. We want to get eggs out of her and she probably never will if there isn't a...
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Well normally females are the more aggressive ones and ours is very friendly, but she is attached to who she knows most people she is fine with but there are some that she just outright doesn't like and will start hissing at and puffing at. She is very good at being a guard bird. We used to take...
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Yup. We have a single female. She is always laying down puffing out her butt feathers really wanting a boyfriend if you know what I mean ;) lol. That is why we had this round of eggs, emus need to socialize no matter how much attention. And she can stop presenting herself to every human she sees...
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Oh before I forget, egg 3 has internally PIPPED as well. So that is 2 eggs out of 4. Egg 4 is now the lazy one and egg 2 is the one wiggling.
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    This is just now a pic of her after half a day under the heat lamp. Funny how they sleep with their heads in crazy positions. I swear she is alive lol. She scoots around already and as you can see she had one of her first poops. Ruining her baby blanket already.
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    Should probably add a few pics. Going by how the head pattern looks we think female but maybe when the feathers fluff out a bit that might change lol. Idk how accurate the head pattern is but our last emu was female and the head pattern matched exactly what it was supposed to be.
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    We have 1 egg hatched and one now that internally pipped. It is a bit early for them to hatch at only 51 days for the first one....our first emu we ever hatched was day 62! Has anyone had eggs hatch later than 62 or earlier than 51?
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    Hatching emu chicks in homemade incubator

    I have built an incubator using a cooler and have 4 eggs in the incubator, hand rotating 180 every day, eggs tracking for between 12 and 16% weight loss(using a digital postal scale that I don't think is too accurate). Temp is in celsius on the pic of the controller on the outside. I hold...
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    2021 Emu Hatch-a-long!

    What are you using for temp control? One of 3 things is wrong, poorly insulated, too powerful of a heater, or low accuracy thermostat. I built my own out of a cooler to hatch emus lol.
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    Methods of watering without freezing

    It's 1/3 of an ibc tote. The emu likes to drink from it because she used to swim in it and she likes to skim her beak across a big area of water. A lot of water surface area to lose heat with so the current tank just won't work. The water heating coils in our winter would chew up to...
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    Methods of watering without freezing

    So here in Michigan we already have our tank freezing. So now I am looking at ways to get water to our emu without freezing nor consuming massive amounts of power. Our chickens and ducks have a water system that I made with carbon heat tape on the outside of pvc then the tube put into a larger...
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    Anyone Interested in a 2017/18 Emu Hatch Along?

    Busy time here but anyways, the larger egg just sounded today. Shouldn't be much longer..
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    Raising various poultry

    Yea I'm sure I will enjoy their craziness lol. Even as eggs they are practically bouncing all over the place now.
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    Anyone Interested in a 2017/18 Emu Hatch Along?

    Day 48 now with the eggs. I broke down and drilled a safety hole into my smaller egg because it slowed down in it's movements quite a bit and I was getting worried. The hole is only 2mm in size and it was fairly easy to determine the air cell side of the egg as it felt cold while the rest of the...
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    Anyone Interested in a 2017/18 Emu Hatch Along?

    I got mine from kalaya estates. I heard the high success rates of emu eggs from there and that's where I got my 2 from. Maybe they were either not fertilized or scrambled in transit. I was worried about shipping because of how bad they can be handling packages that are sensitive. The eggs are...
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    Anyone Interested in a 2017/18 Emu Hatch Along?

    juliefpc did you try putting them in water and seeing the wiggling that way around days 30-40? It makes movements much more pronounced. Idk if it is ok to do later in incubation but I know it is done a lot in that timeframe.
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    Anyone Interested in a 2017/18 Emu Hatch Along?

    You sure they aren't moving at all? I find mine each have their own sleeping times lol.
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