Our friend incubated this emu egg, and right now her emu pair is sitting on quite a few more that she is hoping they will hatch out themselves. We will end up getting another from her eventually. The adult female emu she has actually belonged to my fiance a few years ago - he sold her the emu when he moved in with someone else at the time. Not sure on names yet - told him we needed a dinosaur-type name since its like a little velociraptor. Apparently the only way to tell sex on an emu (per our friend, we asked her yesterday & I haven't researched it yet if there are other ways) is to send in for a DNA/blood test, or wait until its mature enough to breed. They thought the female emu was a male for a couple years ... til she laid an egg a few months ago!
Ticks are kinda freaking me out this year. My dogs are outside A LOT more now that they're at the farm and can be in a big pen made of t-posts & cow panels while I'm gone to get their Shepherd energy out (pen is bigger than my old residential backyard!) and I've found ticks on Ruger's ear and Ember's shoulder in the last week
Ruger has a lyme vaccine, going to get Emmy one next month when she goes in, and fiance has some good flea/tick collars that have kept them off his dogs well.
that they make it. They seem to be doing pretty good still, and their fur is coming in. The black one has an adorable white racing stripe on his head.
Hard to get good pictures with it zipping all over the place.
. I was convinced she would not live through the night, but is marginally improved this morning.
Of course this is a month after I gave up on hatching my own eggs and bought the 2 ducklings.
