Emu Egg Hatch-along

[FNF]

Emu's do love water! Perhaps if you allowed supervised visits while you're in there they might get used to the Ducks. It wouldn't be a long-term solution but while they're smaller it might be an option and provide some additional entertainment.

That's true - I would LOVE to see those videos!!! Ours adore getting a hose off in the summer and the babies played in the low troughs. They were pretty interested in the hose too.

 

[MGG]

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Thanks! I'll get one ordered. It's always scary to open the lid with hatched babies in there, I have to sit it on the floor first incase any jump out. Looks like this might help that issue too, haha.

 

[MGG]

Never seen emu eggs! Following along!

Thanks! They're so beautiful.

 

[MGG]

This is spectacular! I only have six

The wild species are so much fun, so different from domestics. I love them to death.

 

[MGG]

Emu's do love water! Perhaps if you allowed supervised visits while you're in there they might get used to the Ducks. It wouldn't be a long-term solution but while they're smaller it might be an option and provide some additional entertainment.

That would be so fun! I take the ducklings in for supervised swims too when they're little. Can emus actually swim or do they just wade? Imagining a swimming emu is giving me the funniest picture in my head right now
They could definitely go in for visits I think. Or maybe when they're still small-ish and couldn't really hurt much.

 

[MGG]

That's true - I would LOVE to see those videos!!! Ours adore getting a hose off in the summer and the babies played in the low troughs. They were pretty interested in the hose too.

I'd definitely take some videos of that. I made a YouTube account for the sole purpose of sharing videos on here
Aww! Too cute. That's so funny they like water that much. I wouldn't have guessed it. Most of my birds hate the water, besides the ducks obviously.

 

[CCsGarden]

Thanks! They're so beautiful.

Show pictures when they hatch!

 

[CCsGarden]

Haha! Are those yours in the video? That's an awesome pen. We live right next to a cattle rancher, I wonder if he'd let me share his pasture
Too bad they probably couldn't live with little ducks, I have an aviary with a pond and everything but it already has 153 ducks in it and I've heard emus aren't real careful. View attachment 4043334View attachment 4043336View attachment 4043335

I do have tons of fencing stuff though so I'm sure I could make something nice temporarily.
Wow that's quite a few! That would be awesome, thanks so much. Fingers crossed, mine are good though. They take sooo long, I don't know how much more waiting I can endure

Do you sell ducks? They are so Beautiful! I really wants some soon!

 

[MGG]

Do you sell ducks? They are so Beautiful! I really wants some soon!

I do! I have 17 species. All wild ones too. Also Bobwhite quail, red golden and ringneck pheasants, pigeons, doves, chickens, and guinea fowl. I used to have a bunch of wild geese too like snows, blues, Ross, white fronted, and Canada geese but decided to just focus on the ducks for a few years. I'm fully licensed and all of the birds are papered as well.

 

[Strawberry74]

So for the babies, I used my hall bath as the brooder for about two weeks. When they outgrew that, I put them up in my barn - I had to put some space heaters in there to keep the temperature steady, but it worked well. I used dog gates and pine shavings for an enclosure with a huge dog crate and larger hanging heater. Once they were bigger I didn't lock them in the dog crate at night. Finally I was able to move them to my neighbor's pasture and open barn with Fred, their dad. We kept the female, Ethel, in my pasture by herself. Once the babies were sold, we moved Fred back over. The adults have a lot of space, a trough of water, and I put a feeder in their three sided run-in. During winter they have fresh straw and they snuggle in there overnight. Otherwise they're pretty hardy and low key. For the record they have been laying eggs since late October but I'm collecting them this year - they are so determined to try to hatch again!

How are you resisting hatching more cute little dinosaurs anyway? You have some serious self control!