Anyone up for a Hatchalong?

[Irine]

Congratulations Irine ! !

Awesome!

Thank you I am so happy! Came this morning and found 2 of my eggs have piped. In 20 min third one piped. This is day 52

 

[Pollitollito]

Congrats Irine, when did you put these at the bator,,, mines are now on day 47, no movement at all, is this possible??? no stinkers no nothing at that incubator, at incubator n2 yesterday I took out a stinker and today an googer bah one egg with white goop but didnt stink just the white goop, with a redish liquid both of them has the same redish liquid. Still has 2 more eggs, but not too much hope now... lets see! if theres life at any incubator OMS wanna cryy, all of you had luck ,,, but not me. Out of 12 eggs, nothingggg!!! this is freaking nuttts! im frustrated....

Finally

 

[Irine]

You can see a toe on this one

 

[msheets]

Yay Irine!!! That's funny they decided to just come all at once lol. Wow 2 at once & now 3 eggs at once, maybe I'll get lucky & all 4 of mine will hatch at once?? Ooh that'd be lovely There are so many chicks hatching in a short amount of time, it's teasing me haha. My chicks still have 13 days until day 50...I guess that's not really that bad of a wait compared to 50 days but still, they've been wiggling for 6 days & it feels like f o r e v e r!!!

Thanks Yoda, I'm really looking forward to seeing them!

 

[msheets]

Congrats Irine, when did you put these at the bator,,, mines are now on day 47, no movement at all, is this possible??? no stinkers no nothing at that incubator, at incubator n2 yesterday I took out a stinker and today an googer bah one egg with white goop but didnt stink just the white goop, with a redish liquid both of them has the same redish liquid. Still has 2 more eggs, but not too much hope now... lets see! if theres life at any incubator OMS wanna cryy, all of you had luck ,,, but not me. Out of 12 eggs, nothingggg!!! this is freaking nuttts! im frustrated....

Polli don't give up! I wouldn't base my success only on seeing them wiggle or not, if they don't stink I'd just keep my fingers crossed. I REALLY hope you get a surprised pip soon!!

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

I think that person is full of it. No one says something like "there is a way to do whatever" and then never says anything more. I know 2 different people with emu ranches. One set of farmers incubate in an incubator and they never heard of it. The other set of farmers incubate naturally, they have a 25 yr old imported male from Australia who sits on the nests and hatches them himself. So, I have 2 great resources here locally and neither have heard of any possible way to candle an emu egg using light. I have heard the best way is to do the "water candling" where you bring a basin of water up to egg temp and gently place the egg in. If it sinks, it's no good. If it floats, it's probably viable and later on you will see the water start to ripple due to the movement inside. It's not a candling in the sense that you see anything inside. You look at the water! But, my eggs are too early and I have never tried this. This is only what I heard from the men who have the naturally incubating male.

My 1st egg (lovingly named "earl" for now) is on day 22
My other 2 eggs (lovingly called "thing 1" and "thing 2") are on day 8

 

[Pollitollito]

Thanks so much!! lets see, what what you heard of the water thing to see if theres movement ???? hope, gimme hopee!!!!

Polli don't give up! I wouldn't base my success only on seeing them wiggle or not, if they don't stink I'd just keep my fingers crossed. I REALLY hope you get a surprised pip soon!!

 

[msheets]

I think that person is full of it. No one says something like "there is a way to do whatever" and then never says anything more. I know 2 different people with emu ranches. One set of farmers incubate in an incubator and they never heard of it. The other set of farmers incubate naturally, they have a 25 yr old imported male from Australia who sits on the nests and hatches them himself. So, I have 2 great resources here locally and neither have heard of any possible way to candle an emu egg using light. I have heard the best way is to do the "water candling" where you bring a basin of water up to egg temp and gently place the egg in. If it sinks, it's no good. If it floats, it's probably viable and later on you will see the water start to ripple due to the movement inside. It's not a candling in the sense that you see anything inside. You look at the water! But, my eggs are too early and I have never tried this. This is only what I heard from the men who have the naturally incubating male.

My 1st egg (lovingly named "earl" for now) is on day 22
My other 2 eggs (lovingly called "thing 1" and "thing 2") are on day 8

Aww I love thing 1 & thing 2, how cute! Well Earl only has another week or so before you can see if he wiggles, that's not too long. I saw some of my egg's wiggle on dat 31 & most on here say day 30 is usually the earliest you can watch them move. My egg E would roll on 3 different occasions on day 26, it didn't wiggle but would start randomly rolling so maybe that counts? The other 4 didn't do it though. I started a thread on here about the different methods people use to check egg viability pre-hatch but basically 30 days us the soonest they start working.

 

[msheets]

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I've heard the water test is best for eggs that are very far along so with yours being on dat 47 I think they'd be a good candidate for it. I know you out them in warm water & like Bonnie said if they sink they're bad & if they float they're viable & when floating watch for ripples in the water. I'm sure someone else will add to it also, I can't remember who but one of the members has talked about it before

 

[kathyinmo]

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I agree! I was never 100% sure that egg B wiggled at all. Really ! !

Don't give up hope! Just wait it out!

Good luck!