Emu Hatch Along! :D

[Happy Chooks]

Be the first to hatch an emu in the 5th Annual BYC Hatch-a-long!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857062/the-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50#post_12875109

 

[Corny Caleb]

How are your eggs doing??

They are doing well I guess lol, I just got a third egg. How are your chicks doing??

 

[ClaireAjideh]

They are doing well I guess lol, I just got a third egg. How are your chicks doing??

Ooooh egg citing! How far along are the other eggs? They are doing very well, but not eating really yet…. Still living off the yolk I guess

 

[jkeating00]

BookDockers! I'm hatching emu eggs for a friend. I can hook you up with chicks or eggs! FB me?

 

[weendogmom]

Can anyone help me with an Emu egg question?

I have two eggs in our incubator. They are 2 weeks old. This is my first time.

My question is, when I go to turn the one egg, when I rotate it, I can feel a mass shifting inside of it. The other egg doesn't do that.

Thoughts? Is this a good sign, i.e. developing chick, or bad, like there is something dead in it ??

 

[Corny Caleb]

Ooooh egg citing! How far along are the other eggs? They are doing very well, but not eating really yet…. Still living off the yolk I guess

Well all of the eggs are staggered, But the first (egg A) is 15 days away from hatching, and is wiggling like CRAZY he wants to get OUT! lol. I hope your little guys are doing well

 

[Corny Caleb]

Can anyone help me with an Emu egg question?

I have two eggs in our incubator. They are 2 weeks old. This is my first time.

My question is, when I go to turn the one egg, when I rotate it, I can feel a mass shifting inside of it. The other egg doesn't do that.

Thoughts? Is this a good sign, i.e. developing chick, or bad, like there is something dead in it ??

I'm not sure that weird mass shifting sighn is good, ( I'm by no means an expert, in fact, I'm just hatching out my first emus as well). None of my eggs do that, and one of them is on day 40, and wiggling. you should ask @ES Emus about it.

 

[ClaireAjideh]

Can anyone help me with an Emu egg question?

I have two eggs in our incubator. They are 2 weeks old. This is my first time.

My question is, when I go to turn the one egg, when I rotate it, I can feel a mass shifting inside of it. The other egg doesn't do that.

Thoughts? Is this a good sign, i.e. developing chick, or bad, like there is something dead in it ??

Does it lie on any side you place it? Or does it roll to the same position every time? I'm not sure what you mean by a mass shifting. It could be that the air sac is broken and the egg contents are sloshing around., and that would be bad. But once my eggs were developed a bit it definitely felt like there was something in there, i think it was the distribution of weight in the egg changing.

 

[Micki]

Is rolling to the same position every time a good sign?

 

[holliewould]

Mine tries to roll to one position and it started doing that at about after 15 days of incubation. My egg is on day 27 and it just wants to stay in one spot so I kind of have to lean it on a corner of the incubator in order to get the air/heat distribution going on. So I too want to know if this is normal? I did get wiggles today so I am positive that I have something alive in this green rock.