Help, I have an emu egg I have damaged MASSES of membrane on, lots of blood, it is clotting but what do I do?
This turned out still alive during eggtopsy!! (I am experienced at diagnosing death in eggs accurately, all I can say is no pulse, no movement, no body temperature, and rigormortis at 3 days plus overdue are apparently not 100%, or else it was soon enough that I rescusitated it by accident)
The story is, 2 days after all other eggs hatched, Emu egg 8 still hadn't pipped internally. Every day it wiggled and rocked, confirming life, until today, 3 days overdue and no internal pip, no wiggling anymore. After a few minutes the egg temperature was dropping, consistant with a dead egg, not a live one with body temp.
We carefully opened a tiny 1/4" hole in the bubble end, and listened with stethoscope. No Heartbeat: no wiggling: temperature dropping.
We increased the hole incrementally until I could clearly see the membrane, confirmed that there was no movement, no pulse, touched the membrane and confirmed no movement no pulse, going cold now.
We were by now certain of death, the fetus was cold and rigid, consistant with rigormortis, showed no movement or pulse to stethoscope or finger. We proceeded to eggtopsy ... opened the membrane over the air cell, significant dark semiclotted blood was present. We accessed the head, which probably involved some chest pressure, and it started breathing!! Now pulse and breathing are present as per normal.
I have cleared the nostrils and placed cling film over the open air cell end (excepting for a small breathing hole) and placed the egg back in a high-humidity incubator (normally emus are hatched at 40%RH, so I've used 75%)
I have no high hopes of course, but what can I do that might give him/her a chance?
) picking and then playing ....... I think @duluthralphie will love the idea. .....
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It's getting late there. You're still up?
