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OMG, you all are makin' me a nervous wreck following along here!
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Can't these emu eggs I have.......... JUST HATCH ! ! !? ? ? ? ?

Do I have to do something??????

OMG, I am freaking!


My eggs will be day 50 on Saturday, March 10. I see one (maybe the second one, also) wiggle around and dance.
 
Raptor65 said:
This is what mine sound like but the big cool spot still remains, mostly along the top of where the air cell is, like the chick is pushing up against the very bottom of the air cell and the membrane along the top of the shell has peeled off a tiny bit, they're both like this. I was expecting the cool spot to more or less disappear or least shrink when they'd torn through the air cell.
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for all of mine they still have a definite "up" side and a "down" side as I set them on the counter.. but closer to hatch I could tell that they were taking up the entire egg since the cool end pretty much disappeared

I think what happens is that the membrane shrinks away from the sides of the shell and pretty much envelopes the chick.. he settles on one side of the shell and turns so he has leverage to use his beak like a piston to break through the air cell (at least normal chicks would.. unlike my little odd ball).. so there will still be an "empty" spot where he needs room to break through the shell with his beak.. and naturally it would be a teeny bit cooler than the rest of the egg.. but from what I have noticed is that the actual ends of the egg where the air cell used to be is warmer to the touch than it used to be during incubation.. so the section of the egg that the chick breaks through would be cooler.. and when the chick rotates and readies for hatch that cool space tends to be on the "top" when you let the egg settle on a flat surface

I could be wrong.. but that's just what I have observed so far from these guys as they have hatched
 
Thank you very much for the advise I just did that
yinepu said:
ok.. if you're on day 49 then take each egg out and set it on a flat surface.. whichever way the egg settles place it back into the bator that same way.. so if your number on your egg is face up when you have it on the counter.. when you put it back into the bator have the number facing the exact same way.. the chick SHOULD hatch out from the side that faces up.. if you notice where it cracks along the bottom rotate the egg a bit so the break is facing up a little more to allow the chick room to push the shell off... out of the ones that I have had hatch so far one silly chick decided to hatch out of the bottom of the egg.. so I had to rotate it a bit so he could finish.. the others hatched out through the air cell which was facing up
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yinepu said:
for all of mine they still have a definite "up" side and a "down" side as I set them on the counter.. but closer to hatch I could tell that they were taking up the entire egg since the cool end pretty much disappeared

I think what happens is that the membrane shrinks away from the sides of the shell and pretty much envelopes the chick.. he settles on one side of the shell and turns so he has leverage to use his beak like a piston to break through the air cell (at least normal chicks would.. unlike my little odd ball).. so there will still be an "empty" spot where he needs room to break through the shell with his beak.. and naturally it would be a teeny bit cooler than the rest of the egg.. but from what I have noticed is that the actual ends of the egg where the air cell used to be is warmer to the touch than it used to be during incubation.. so the section of the egg that the chick breaks through would be cooler.. and when the chick rotates and readies for hatch that cool space tends to be on the "top" when you let the egg settle on a flat surface

I could be wrong.. but that's just what I have observed so far from these guys as they have hatched
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It's been a few hours since I last checked so I pulled them out to have a look and the air cell is definitely much smaller and not as cold now, a few hours ago it felt pretty much normal size.
 

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