Need Help Incubating! EMU EGG!

[FEAREDALPHA]

4 grams is a lot, especially if it
Keeps losing that quick. How many days has it been incubating?

I put it in since the 19th but it has lost 2 grams veryday until yesterday it lost 4

 

[Pyxis]

I put it in since the 19th but it has lost 2 grams veryday until yesterday it lost 4

The 19th of November? That would make it about 30 days along now if that's the case. Have you checked it for any signs of life yet?

 

[FishMtFarm]

Yeah it usually loses more weigh in the middle of incubation. You should be able to do the tilt test on it.

 

[FEAREDALPHA]

Yeah it usually loses more weigh in the middle of incubation. You should be able to do the tilt test on it.

No sorry i meant i put it in on the 15th of this month my apologies!

 

[FEAREDALPHA]

The 19th of November? That would make it about 30 days along now if that's the case. Have you checked it for any signs of life yet?

My apologies i meant the 15th of December

 

[Pyxis]

Oh okay, so quite a ways to go yet. Can you get a couple more eggs just in case? They're social and you shouldn't have just one anyway

 

[FEAREDALPHA]

It lost two grams today so thats better!

 

[FEAREDALPHA]

Oh okay, so quite a ways to go yet. Can you get a couple more eggs just in case? They're social and you shouldn't have just one anyway

Yes! i will do that but i figured to start trying to hatch one and if it hatched i would buy a chick

 

[FishMtFarm]

So if your egg started at 693, then you want it to lose and average of 2.07 a day to get the target loss of 15%. You would be safe in a range of 1.79 average daily to 2.35. So the 4g weight loss isn’t a big deal provided some other days it loses less than 2g.

 

[FEAREDALPHA]

So if your egg started at 693, then you want it to lose and average of 2.07 a day to get the target loss of 15%. You would be safe in a range of 1.79 average daily to 2.35. So the 4g weight loss isn’t a big deal provided some other days it loses less than 2g.

Ok good to know and fyi it lost 2 grams today i think my hydrometer is way off