EMU PICS as Promised Photo heavy!

[skand]

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To get in practice, I highly suggest a large white leghorn named Popcorn!

 

[turnerstar31]

what cuties. congrats on the hatch

 

[heyeddah]

Wow, Those are awesome photos. How many days?
How do you house them?

 

[daisychick]

That is so amazing! Did you finish the hatching outside of the hovabator??

 

[leecey411]

The first egg peeped on day 49, surprisingly early and catching me unprepared. I actually started to cry with joy and anxiety since I had to go to work and leave them with DH! I knew they could not hatch in the hovabator. So DH and I place the eggs in a plastic tub after setting a heat lamp and a regular light bulb ( both in reflectors) on top of a sheet of 1/4 inch wire. DH husband watched as the temp got to 97 degrees , boiled water and ran the vaporizer to get the humidity up, and the first egg hatched. I place my hovabator top on one end of the top f to run the fan and we used an air freshner fan at the other end. The second egg hatched at about 3 am on Wednesday. It peeped Tuesday around 10 pm and as the hatching progressed I could actually hear the egg cracking in another room! They are big and very curious!

 

[NancyDz]

Very cool!

My brother had emu, they hatched their own.. I always loved watching them. I can't imagine
those huge eggs in my incubator! That's awesome you were able to hatch them.

If you start with them real young like that , they can be super friendly... especially without Mom and Dad protecting them. Or I should say Dad... he does all the work normally.


Good luck with them!


Nancy

 

[Mahonri]

Wonder what DW would say about an emu in the backyard. Could you put them on a leash and take them for a walk? That would turn some heads.

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[cluck1]

Whered you get the eggs

 

[NancyDz]

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There's a couple that brings one on a leash to the Farmer's market, they sell emu oil and things made with the feathers at their booth. It's a reallly friendly one and cool to see.


The males make a really cool sound too.. sounds like a low deep drumming sound.


Nancy

 

[Mahonri]

If I were rich I'd find a nice place somewhere in Meadow Vista with a small lake or pond to retire. Had some friends that lived there once. Beautiful country.