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WVduckchick said:
I also noticed the tape, and while it makes sense, the tape kinda scares me, but I guess the right kind of tape would be worth trying.
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Taping them does scare me too, because everywhere I have read and even the breeder I bought my eggs from who gave me advice told me oxygen exchange was very, very important for these eggs. They are very big with thick shells and they need to have their pores open to receive oxygen. I was even told to make sure I opened my incubator once or twice a day near the end of hatch when I stop turning to make sure they are getting fresh oxygen. So taping and blocking off pores preventing them from having as much oxygen exchange worries me. Also, only one source out of many that I read said taping was an okay thing to do, and even that one said only around the middle of the egg and only up to 10% of it.

Also, if they lose too much weight, I think it's a sign of a bad egg. I saw another thread on here where someone took taping to the extreme because they were told they could tape and taped up over 60% of the eggs because they were losing too much weight. I don't think the verdict is in on those eggs yet (haven't checked the thread) but with that much weight loss that rapidly, I would suspect they were possibly bad eggs.

If A continues to rapidly lose weight, I will probably assume it's a bad egg. Mostly because 22 is the exact same size pretty much, and it's losing weight fine at these humidity levels, so A should be too, unless it's got a thin shell or something. I'll probably try moving it into an incubator with higher humidity first just to see what happens, but I'm prepared that it might be no good.

WVduckchick said:
The one posting all the videos?
I could be wrong, I thought in one video she says "my first baby emu hatched". Granted, I didn't check the date on the video or any background. I guess I just got the impression that she was just starting out too. My bad.
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Don't worry, it wasn't just you who thought she was new, lol. I got that impression from some of the questions she was asking around the site, like whether a hole in her silkie egg was a pip, why she had small air cells on day 24 of duck incubation and how to fix that, etc. She did say in one of her posts that she hatches eggs constantly and did list emus as one of the things she hatched constantly, but also listed silkies which she has only hatched one time according to her posts. So, I too had the impression that she was new and maybe only had done one hatch of them. So it wasn't just you, lol!

Chicks 'n ducks said:
Pyxis, could we see your housing set up for your emus? (if you have it set up)
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It's not set up yet :oops: I won the raffle egg totally unexpectedly, so I really don't have anything together yet. Luckily, I've got some time to work on that, lol.
 
SilksterTN said:
This is just me sitting here waiting for the candling guide to emu eggs by Pyxis. :lau Seriously tho....I am crossing everything for you!
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I would probably need a floodlight to even begin to attempt to candle these :lau

Nope, no candling guide for emus here :p
 

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