Anyone up for a Hatchalong?

[yinepu]

remind me of Paris Hilton an her chihuhuas sad fad
lot peeple got those cause she did now lots chihuhuas in pounds put 2 sleep

animals suffer bcuase owner dont know what do wit them after they grow up real big .. owners get tired of them cant get rid of after cute chick stuff wears away
guess lots peeple hatchin here want to get rid of them soon poor emus

I'm not going to defend myself.. but perhaps enlighten everyone a bit?

Maybe they are the newest craze for some.. however I have been planning for emus for over 7 years now.. so I don't think mine are a 'fad"..
When we bought our home back in 95 one of the deciding factors for us taking this one over several others was the fact that emu pens were already up and in place...

and for the record.. I think the adults are simply adorable, goofy, amusing and loads of fun to be around.. so even when the "cute chick stuff wears away" they are still desirable birds in my opinion.. yes they are work to keep and raise.. but so is any animal that you care about and plan to tend to for it's life.. and down the road when mine are fully grown and laying eggs I plan to hatch out many of them as well...

When I started getting eggs for hatching I made sure I got a good assortment of eggs from different breeders to help ensure a little genetic diversity...
for the past several months I have been tending to the incubators for my staggered hatches, turning the eggs 5 times a day.. breaking out the scales and stethoscope just to try to monitor what has been going on in the shells.. and frankly once the last egg has hatched I'm going to miss all that... but I will still have several goofy birds to tend to and raise and worry over and feed... and I think many of the people here in this emu section of the forum can say the same thing

so much for being a fad .. huh?


oh.. one other thing that many people don't realize.. people don't just raise emus for pets.. the main reason they became popular many, many years ago (before the bottom fell out of the market) was as a production bird.. for meat as an alternative to beef, for emu oil for the cosmetic industry, for leather, for the feathers... pretty much every part of an emu had some sort of market value.. I know for a fact that many of the breeders where we get our hatching eggs still use them as a production bird.. you can tell from reading their websites or from reading their ads (or you can be silly like me and just ask them.. lol)

No offense to Miss Hilton.. but she was never a role model of mine..

 

[yinepu]

This quote has to be one of the dumbest I have read so far

Why would we want to get rid of something that cost us so much and we spent so much time trying to hatch out? Turning the eggs 3 plus times daily for 49 - 51 plus days? Tell you what you buy the eggs and if you hatch them out I will take them from you and you emus will be very very happy not "poor" !!

lol.. it's been 5 times a day of egg turning for me.. and checking several times during the night since I have insomnia and have nothing better to do at 2 AM..

 

[Pollitollito]

For the person who is willing for attention saying silly things,,,,, wiggle yourself to another place, If you cannot have, raise and enjoy a emu do not bother the ones who loves this, and anyway you looke more familiar to Paris Hilton than us, she has no brain at all in her head, she only carries blonde hair and its fake bruuur, so I didnt quote as I will not give him more attention

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As for my eggs, gosh nothing yet !!!! no movement and im on day 45, this batch of 8 egs are 2 fron alabama, and 2 more different shipments from kalaya.... im desesperate and today my bator went down again to 93 for sev hours,,,, ,,,, my second batch of eggs are at day 30 and got 1stinker of 4 ..

im desesperateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee haaaa feel better.

 

[Raptor65]

Still nothing new on Egg B, it's been loudly crying the whole time but hasn't made an effort at getting out, so much so I can hear it from outside the incubator and the noise actually woke me up last night. I tried making a small hole at the pointy end to try and locate the head just now but when I poked through the outer membrane it started to bleed so I applied some quick stop and didn't go further. Now been 5 days since it sounded.

 

[msheets]

Polli I really hope you get some action soon!!! If your bator has dropped its temps often then theres a good chance the eggs are just behind, also it took me 5 days to finally see all of my eggs wiggle & 2 of them just barely moved at all so I think there's still a good chance you've got something cookin' in the group of 8 eggs. If they don't stink then in my opinion there's still hope! My stinker started having a smell at day 26 then I finally pulled it on day 34 so it probably wasnt fertile. Have you tried to see movement in those 3? It's still a little early anyway so I wouldn't be too worried about them yet.

Gosh Raptor I don't have a clue what I'd do in that situation, I really hope the chick makes its move soon. It's been sounded for longer than usual but then bled when you tried to drill a small hole in the pointy end, think it was the membrane or the chick bleeding? Poor lil guy, I want it to make it out ok so bad...

 

[Raptor65]

Yeah I'm sure I didn't nick the chick, I came in at a very steep angle with my pick to break off a bit of the shell and then gently lifted up the membrane with the tip rather than just poking through. But the hole I made in the membrane is very tiny, only about as big around as the thickness of a CD and the blood wasn't gushing out or anything even before I put the quick stop on but it spooked me enough to stop.

Trying to think of other options here. One thing I've considered is just going all out and removing the shell from the large end and getting the chick out of there nice and easy, possibly in the bathroom with the shower running to get some humidity going for it, even with the wet paper towels it's getting a little dry in there, though the membrane is still pliable.


But aside from that, the chick that hatched on it's own is doing great, such a friendly little thing too, it loves to have it's back rubbed.

 

[kathyinmo]

Awwwwww, sweet pictures ! Good luck with your other egg!

I have no action with my eggs, other than wiggling and dancing. Day 49 here.

 

[Irine]

Oh my gosh! Cuteness!
I also made hole last night , very tiny one, the chick inside is talking and trying to get out but no pipping yet. The membrane also showed sign of blood and I almost fainted. I put a wet band-aide on and now constantly reapplying moisture. Another egg also talking and I can hear it pocking the shell ,but no pipping.

Yeah I'm sure I didn't nick the chick, I came in at a very steep angle with my pick to break off a bit of the shell and then gently lifted up the membrane with the tip rather than just poking through. But the hole I made in the membrane is very tiny, only about as big around as the thickness of a CD and the blood wasn't gushing out or anything even before I put the quick stop on but it spooked me enough to stop.

Trying to think of other options here. One thing I've considered is just going all out and removing the shell from the large end and getting the chick out of there nice and easy, possibly in the bathroom with the shower running to get some humidity going for it, even with the wet paper towels it's getting a little dry in there, though the membrane is still pliable.


But aside from that, the chick that hatched on it's own is doing great, such a friendly little thing too, it loves to have it's back rubbed.

 

[msheets]

Here's my weigh ins for day 35, only 15 more days left & I can't wait!!! Egg D was a dud so I added its statistics for the last day I weighed it for research purposes. I was worried about eggs C & E not having chicks in them since they were behind in their weight loss but they do. Egg D was my heaviest egg & was exactly on track with its weight loss, then it ended up being infertile...I wish so much that by recording your eggs' weight loss you can determine of theyre developing but that's just not the case. Still weighing your eggs is very important for determining if your humidity is correct along with some other things. So anyways here is my accumulative data for eggs A-E from day 1 to day 35. For those that don't know, these eggs were not shipped but picked up.

Day 1
A-671.8 *confirmed alive day 31
B-653.2 *confirmed alive day 32
C-671.1 *confirmed alive day 34
D-681.3 *confirmed dud day 34
E-672.8 *confirmed alive day 31
Day 7
A-657.5 --- 2.13% --- 14.3g
B-639.1 --- 2.16% --- 14.1g
C-660.0 --- 1.66% --- 11.1g
D-666.8 --- 2.13% --- 14.5g
E-660.9 --- 1.77% --- 11.9g
Day 14
A-642.5 --- 2.29% --- 15g Total 4.37% --- 29.3g
B-624.9 --- 2.24% --- 14.3g Total 4.35% --- 28.4g
C-648.6 --- 1.73% --- 11.4g Total 3.36% --- 22.5g
D-652.2 --- 2.19% --- 14.6g Total 4.28% --- 29.1g
E-648.2 --- 1.93% --- 12.7g Total 3.66% --- 24.6g
Day 21
A-629.1 --- 2.09% ---13.4g Total 6.36% --- 42.7g
B-611.2 --- 2.18% --- 13.6g Total 6.43% --- 42g
C-639.0 --- 1.49% --- 9.6g Total 4.79% --- 32.1g
D-637.1 --- 2.32% --- 15.1g Total 6.49% --- 44.2g
E-635.8 --- 1.92% --- 12.4g Total 5.50% --- 37g
Day 28
A-614.8
B-597.3
C-628.5
D-622.6 --- 2.28% --- 14.5g Total 8.62% --- 58.7g
E-623.3
Day 35
A-602.0 --- 2.09% --- 12.8g Total 10.39% --- 69.8g
B-584.2 --- 2.20% --- 13.1g Total 10.57% --- 69g
C-618.6 --- 1.58% --- 9.9g Total 7.83% --- 52.5g
E-612.3 --- 1.77% --- 11g. Total 9% --- 60.5g

 

[Raptor65]

Ok, update on Egg B.

Decided to open the shell and assist, it's not breech, the head was tucked along the belly. There is some bleeding but I'm not sure if it's active bleeding or just a pool that accumulated.
Either way the chick is very very weak and I'm not sure it will make it. I don't know if I waited too long or if I should have waited longer.