Emu hatching question

[TheFoagz]

My egg is at 60 days still wiggling incubated at 97.5. What is the longest incubation time you have had? I'm worried...

 

[Pyxis]

Are you positive the temperature has been 97.5? Did you double check with a calibrated thermometer? They can take longer than 60 days to hatch, but that would be at lower temperatures.

 

[TheFoagz]

Are you positive the temperature has been 97.5? Did you double check with a calibrated thermometer? They can take longer than 60 days to hatch, but that would be at lower temperatures.

I'm like a nut job so I have 4 or 5 thermometers then there I thought it was too long to. My other four have been hatched for quite a while now.

 

[Pyxis]

I'm like a nut job so I have 4 or 5 thermometers then there I thought it was too long to. My other four have been hatched for quite a while now.

Huh. Well, I would say just keep waiting. If it's wiggling it's definitely alive in there.

 

[Featheredfriends19]

I am also looking for some insite, I have 2 emu eggs today is day 52 that don't respond to tapping or whistling. The temp is at 97.6. They seem to have lost the correct amount of weight.... seems I should just be patient?

 

[Kalifornsky]

I've had eggs go on an absurd amount of time, maybe 70+ days. Healthy chicks hatched out but a lot didn't make it because I was impatient. Whatever you do, leave them alone and the'll hatch when it's time. Both our incubators seem to have something off about them to delay the hatch for such a long amount of time. Unfortunately I don't remember the settings/readings.

 

[Featheredfriends19]

Thank you, so 1 has started hatching however I have noticed some blood, is that normal?

 

[Kalifornsky]

I had bleed stop on hand when that happened. If @Pyxis could weigh in! She recently had a hatch.

The delayed hatch (and blood) might have something to do with the humidity- if it's too high they can't absorb the blood quick enough and they hatch wet. I could be remembering wrong, but emus need low humidity and at the time I was hatching other birds in the same incubator so had to compromise.

 

[Featheredfriends19]

It has hatched!

 

[Burd]

That's amazing, congrats on the hatch, hopefully more to come!