Am I Crazy?

[EmtheFishLady]

So I just setup my Brinsea incubator yesterday. Temps and humidity are holding steady. I told my husband he could go on Ebay and oder whatever kind of eggs he wanted so we could run a "test hatch" before I put in the chickens *I* wanted. He goes online and bids on EMU EGGS. TWO OF THEM! So, am I crazy to think this may actually work? Will an emu egg even fit into a Brinsea Octagon 20?

 

[flyweed]

NO...one EMU egg won't fit into a Brinsea Octogan 20, let alone 2. I stop bidding on those if I were him.

Dan

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Sorry, your other post got lost to a DH auction.

No, they won't fit. Try building an incubator out of a container with a lightbulb. Emu eggs take a lower temperature & higher humidity than chicken eggs, but I have faith, you can do it. HEY, make DH build one!

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Yeah, this came a little late didn't it?

We'll have to fashion something up! We'll have a busy weekend building something! Will they not fit even if I take the bottom tray out?

Edit to say: Maybe I'll just scramble them for breakfast...

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

They'll probably be too close to the heating element. Can you build a wall to extend the sides of the bator up about 4"?

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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I didn't think about that!

We could do that pretty easily I'd think. Now to the plans of it.


And to think I was worried about hatching chicken eggs.

 

[JordanFamily]

Let us know if it works....

 

[chickenzoo]

Emu's although fascinating, should not be an impulse buy. You should do research to see if they are for you, as they are not like many birds or animals, they grow to 125 + lbs and over 5ft with a gazel's jumping ability and then there are those sharp claws and they also try and swallow everything. I love mine, I have 5, but I have a lot of experience with many different types of animals. Horses remind me of emu in a way, they are both prey animals with high flight drives.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Well, if they hatch we already have an interested party to buy them, so I'm not planning on keeping them. My husband might have had other ideas, but not I.

 

[casuarius]

the eggs are not easy to hatch in comparison to other eggs, they are more difficult. The temp should run around 97 F, and the humidity is very low, around 20%-25%, much lower than a chicken which should be around 55-60%. Make sure you have a good hygrometer to measure the humidity, you probably wont have to use any water. Also they should be turned at least 3 times a day but not all the way over, just back and forths about half way. Takes around 54 days to hatch.