My 6 Week Old Baby Emooz

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I can't believe my babies are 6 weeks old already! I've been meaning to post some photos. They're over two feet tall now and their outside pen still isn't ready, so they're still living in the house during the night and most of the day, i put them outside in this covered porch area.

Fawkes wants nothing to do with me, he is the one that had Wry neck and is the youngest (yet the largest?) Sayid loves to dance and play, and he likes to get the other ones going to. He's the goofy one. Strider loves cuddles and is the calmest.

What are you reading? Let's pull on your dress strings!

enthralled by the power drill.

I can't have a moment's peace around them

What looks like three baby emus loving me, is really three baby emus accosting me for my dress buttons!!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Love them! So cute!

 

[drumstick diva]

They're adorable. Have you submitted DNA for sexing?

 

[briefvisit]

Whoo!!

In about two or three weeks, Astrid, start watching the upper section of their necks, and their tooshes. You'll see, on the neck, the very very first tiny black 'pinfeathers,' and on their tooshes, the very very first sproutings of tail feathers.

I was just writing below about how, in the wild, you track emoo development by seasons. Well, the shift to 'black head' stage will happen as they enter their second season.





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And a caution: it's vitally important that chicks' environment be free of things like screws and nails and shards of glass. The thing with the buttons? I call it 'beaking' -- they explore things by 'beaking' them, and they will then eat them. We have lost so many pet birds over years to gut perforations caused by ingesting shiny objects.

 

[briefvisit]

I actually enjoy the black-head chicks more than baby chicks. They start getting personalities as black-heads.