Hatch along 2015

[EggAuct]

I got absolutely no wiggles, noises, etc. This morning, day 53, I wake up to this:

Nice congrads!

 

[Haida]

Ughhh! I wish I was incubating emus this year! So jealous! LOL! There's something wonderfully addicting about incubating them! And raising them... aww, emus are just addicting all around!

Good luck everyone!!!

 

[lbaur2]

I got absolutely no wiggles, noises, etc. This morning, day 53, I wake up to this:

I broke It open and it looks like it stoped developing within the first few weeks. I will just buy some chicks

 

[bosingleton]

How accurate is the head pattern sexing?

 

[EggAuct]

How accurate is the head pattern sexing?

How are your other eggs doing?

 

[bosingleton]

How are your other eggs doing?

Only 1 out of 4 hatched :/ but 1 is better than none I suppose.

 

[EggAuct]

I am on 51 days I don't know I think its a bad egg.

 

[mamawolf544]

What do I do? I have had 2 hatch on day 52, this is day 56 I see movement in several eggs. Do I wait or open it a little?

 

[briefvisit]

IMHO wait just a bit -- a natural hatch happens over about four days. The early chicks just tough it out 'til their siblings emerge (then they hoof it to water).

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[Got a wild female sizing up the command of the house-clearing here, but she's not gonna tangle with Eric. Uno the Chick is a sook! When Eric dashes into battle, Uno sits and cheeps plaintively.]

 

[smoothmule]

I have a Janoel 24 incubator and bought an Emu egg for $15. I found the temp required and put the egg in after resting for 24 hours unpacked. What I had read was that they needed lower humidity so I did what I always do with my chicken eggs....incubation and hatching with no added water whatsoever. I didn't weigh it either. I felt there was nothing I would be changing and it would hatch or not anyway so I just waited. I hatched a Big, healthy chick yesterday at day 50. At day 40 I had removed the part in the Janoel that turns the egg and when I picked it up, I felt movement. I put some of the rubbery shelf liner that is a waffle weave on the floor of the incubator. No changes in temp or humidity.

I left the chick in the incubator over night and prepared the brooder today. The incubator was not tall enough for the chick to stand but I expected the chick would mostly sleep, which it seemed to.
I put the chick in the brooder today and it's trying to walk and so funny. It stands then takes off running! This has been a totally fun experience and I an buying a couple more so this chick won'l be a loner. I would happily buy a chick though if there is anyone here selling chicks that will ship. I'm in SW Missouri. What age can they be shipped? I don't mind a day trip for pick up too.




On thing I did in my Janoel is hand turn every day or two. The egg was so large that the turner did not seem to make an entire turn. I turned one way on even days and the other direction on odd days. The Janoel has a rod that sticks down into a hole on the turner and rolls the eggs slowly from one end to the other then back.