Emu egg due on the 11th! Have concerns!

[Reelu]

Hello everyone!

I've been incubating an emu egg for 49 days now. This is my last weighing day, and I'm concerned about the weight the egg's lost. He needed to shed off 89.1g, but his final weight loss is 97g. I'm worried he's lost too much. The egg is twitching and moving around when I talk to it, so I know there's definitely a baby in there.

Will he be okay? He'd been losing weight at a good and steady rate up until last week, when he suddenly spiked with a loss of 17g. I've been very careful with weighing him and watching the humidity, and I adjusted the humidity after having a small heart attack when I saw how much he'd lost.

Will my chick be okay? Or is he doomed? =/

 

[EmuChemainusBC]

Sounds like you worked really hard for this little guy. How did it turn out?

 

[WellDunnFarms]

Did he make it?

 

[Reelu]

The egg has been very quiet since the 12th, but I'm waiting until the 16th since that's the final expected hatch day for him. I'm pretty sure the chick has died, which I think may be because so much weight was lost the previous week. It's incredibly upsetting. I'd been looking forward to my little dinosaur hatching and rearing him or her up alongside my other birds.

Thank you very much to the people who sent me private messages about this. I really appreciated the advice and help.