Pyxis' Emu Chat Thread

[Ravynscroft]

Why risk causing additional complications to an already difficult species to hatch?

 

[FishMtFarm]

Would upping humidity to compensate be a bad idea?

It's not recommended but I think even if you took the pigment off, it would still be too thick to shine a light thru. You have to use a drill to get a hole in these eggs. The babies don't even unzipped like other birds when they hatch. They break off chunks. It's a pretty hard thick shell.

 

[BantyChooks]

I have no experience with emus or their hatching. All I was doing was asking a question to see if it was something possible. Sorry I asked.

 

[FishMtFarm]

No apologies needed. That's how we all learn here! I am new to it too but I got my first emu egg today and just looking at it and touching it, that baby is like a rock! Lol. Ask away cause I'm sure you'll think of a question I never would have thought to ask and it's totally beneficial to all of us.

 

[JaeG]

Didn't LocalYokel do an experiment a year or so back with using vinegar to take pigment off quail shells, making candling easier? Any chance it would work on emu eggs?

I need that at the moment. I have one Button quail female who lays super thick (or just super coloured) eggs and I can't see into them. I can barely make out the air cell, and I certainly can't see if anyone has pipped into it! Very frustrating! Usually I don't have any problems seeing what's going on.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I need that at the moment. I have one Button quail female who lays super thick (or just super coloured) eggs and I can't see into them. I can barely make out the air cell, and I certainly can't see if anyone has pipped into it! Very frustrating! Usually I don't have any problems seeing what's going on.

I would try gently rubbing it on fine sandpaper before using a corrosive liquid... jmo...

 

[JaeG]

I would try gently rubbing it on fine sandpaper before using a corrosive liquid... jmo...

The first one hatched today so I don't have too long to wait (it's a bit late for experiments) - I just hate not being able to see because I can usually tell easily who's still with me, and who isn't going to make it. Frustrating!

 

[SilksterTN]

Ok..oh speaking of 'oops' eggs...got my first one the other day. One of the AMs. It was about the size of a medium size marble. Had a tiny pea size yolk and the rest was whites.

I love fairy eggs! ♥ I have my little collection in a nest that hubby found in the horse pasture. Entirely made out of horse hair

 

[N F C]

I love fairy eggs! ♥ I have my little collection in a nest that hubby found in the horse pasture. Entirely made out of horse hair
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That's cute!

 

[SilksterTN]

That's cute!

Thanks! Patricia's nest runneth over tho. My collection will be complete when I get an olive egger fairy egg LOL