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Only one egg?, are you sure that she has not hidden her nest? How old is your female?Sooo cute. My emus only laid one egg this year and sold it on ebay :-( not sure what got into them this year. Last year hatched out 8 babies
How strange, you sure, scavengers ...crows, ..magpies... rats etc...take them ?
I'm on my 41st egg from my 2 girls this morning.. always lay them in their houses on straw beds.....mostly still warm when feeding them.
Calla
that's got to be a pretty hefty raccoon to deal with a large emu egg, in additon to being very ballsy!!! lolA woman in Lampasas, Texas saw raccoons reaching under her male emu (while he was setting the nest) stealing eggs... so it's very possible that a predator got some of them
Quote: She said the male emu sat there in a trance like state.. from a nest of 12 only 3 were left.. so the raccoons feasted on emu eggs from the time he sat down on that nest until she caught the thief in action.
‘Trance-like state’? Yes – but it sure is counter-intuitive that the male would not notice.
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