Emu eggs, disaster???

[ShaneUK]

Got up the other morning to discover the heat element in my incubator had failed, fan was still running and eggs were cold to touch, temp was reading 19.3 Celsius, they had been like this for up to 5 hours, whats the chances of them surviving? they were 25 days into incubation.

 

[rita2paul]

i recon they have a good chance still, keep going. have you candle it. never tried to hatch emu. fingers crossed for you.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

I don’t know anything about emu, but they are most likely fine. Good luck on your hatch and keep us updated!

 

[JaeG]

It takes a lot longer for the core temperature to cool down enough to kill the embryo, than just cooling the shell. Hopefully your little one is still just fine. Someone on here still hatched out some chicken chicks from eggs that were partially incubated and left for 60 hours at 5C.

 

[ShaneUK]

Thanks guy's, unfortunately it's not possible to candle emu eggs (too dark and thick shells) I'll let them continue to full term and hopefully they will make it, will keep you updated.

 

[rita2paul]

fingers crossed for you.

 

[ShaneUK]

Update, today is day 36 of incubation and today both eggs have stated to wiggle, thankfully looks like the cooling has done them no harm they are alive

 

[JaeG]

Fantastic! We love baby photos remember.

 

[m1chelle1]

Yay!! what ^ said, post pics!!!

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Agree! I can’t wait to see them! I bet you can’t either lol.