Hi! I need help with emu research

[mydadsaidnoemus]

I have chosen to make a poster for one of my classes, about how an emu hatches out of an egg, with drawings of what is going on inside the egg all eight weeks it is being incubated.

I know how chickens and ducks look inside the eggs because I have hatched some out before. But I have never hatched an emu. I tried looking it up but people just post about the outside of the egg and there incubators and there cute tricks to see if there is a chick inside... which is not helpful.

Anyhow I know there are some people here that own emus Please help and thank you so much

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

@Pyxis can you help the op out?
Pyxis hatched a couple and they are doing great! Huge now but not full grown.. hopefully she'll be on later today and have some good stuff to help you out..

 

[Pyxis]

Hi!

Does this help?

I'd give this a read, it might get you what you need:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dvdy.22520

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Hi!

Does this help?

I'd give this a read, it might get you what you need:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dvdy.22520

Those are so cool!

 

[briefvisit]

Here is some additional material:

This is a real live wild rothschildi male sitting on eggs:

Next: it is -- to me -- an amazing fact that even though the female may lay the (6-8) eggs over a week or more, somehow the hatch only takes three or four days -- all those chicks in their shells know when it is time to come out!

And: the eggs start wiggling under the dad about half way through the hatch.

Bonus Fun Fact: baby chicks got no toosh feathers! I guess there is just no room in the egg: