Emu egg changed tone at day 20

[Ebarnes-21]

One of my Emu eggs changed tone (to a light, pottery/porcelain sounding note) suddenly overnight at day 20-21.

I hadn't actually tap tested them as I thought that wouldn't work, even for a rotten egg, until at least day 30.

But I knew, as soon as I touched the egg to turn it, that it sounded very different. No doubt at all. Just the sound of my skin on the egg was that different!

Tapped it (and all the others) with my fingernail and it definitely sounds different to all the others.

I have 6 Emu eggs incubating.

Yesterday I taped (be clear Taped as in electrical tape, not Tapped this time) around the middle of eggs 1 and 2 (the smallest, and oldest), because they were losing weight a bit too fast.

It is egg 1 that has changed sound. It didn't sound different yesterday after I taped it, and egg 2 which is also taped still sounds normal. So it is not just the tape making it sound different.

I have gathered that a sound change before day 48-odd should indicate a rotten egg ... but never heard of it happening this early, and never heard either of it being obvious just on touching and turning the egg, or happening suddenly overnight.

What do you think? I'm fairly certain it can't be a good sign ... it still smells fine though.

 

[Ebarnes-21]

ok day 25 now and i think i detect a slight smell to that egg.

Not 100% certain but it does seem different.

Considering removing it and trying a small hole in the bubble end to check it out.

 

[Ebarnes-21]

Still haven't removed it ... the smell seemed to disappear, so I'm leaving it for now.

I taped another egg, egg 3, just now, only half as much tape, and afterward noticed it changed tone too.

So although egg 2, which is also taped, has not changed tone, two out of three eggs changing tone straight after being taped seems it is more likely just a texture difference having tape on it.

 

[briefvisit]

Me on an 'active' emu pasture yesterday, while out walking. Blessings just three feet apart. And of course you understand that all the intending-Dad emus in Australia, like the Rothschildis in my district, are patiently sitting on their eggs, probably just getting the first wiggles.

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[Ebarnes-21]

Gosh I wish I got wiggles!! 31 days and my first test ... I got several "phantom wiggles" out of the corner of my eye from #4 ... but I'm sure they were illusions, s/he never did it while I had my eye on him.

Next time I do them one or two at once ... 6 eggs are hard to watch.