Pyxis' Emu Chat Thread

[Pyxis]

NO PRESSURE NOW! But there's probably half a pallet with your name on it sitting at your TSC

I told them I would be interested in one bag to start, but since they ordered without even making sure I was actually ordering, who knows!

 

[featherz]

I was just planning to do the mixup of regular foods I've seen on here, but we shall see - maybe I'll order something if I get more hopeful that something will hatch

 

[N F C]

Hey @Pyxis look at what was just entered in the Cutest Baby Fowl Contest:
#129

 

[Pyxis]

Hey @Pyxis look at what was just entered in the Cutest Baby Fowl Contest:
#129

Cute! Mine might actually hatch in time to enter that, since it doesn't close until the 15th.

 

[N F C]

Cute! Mine might actually hatch in time to enter that, since it doesn't close until the 15th.

I hope so!

 

[Pyxis]

Day 30 update! Today is the first day that you can start doing tests on emu eggs to check if they are alive. There are two tests. One test is setting the egg on a flat surface. If it tilts with the air cell side up and the pointy side down, then there's likely a chick in the egg. So egg 22, A, and B got tested, and well, check this out:

Egg 22:

I'd call that a tilt!

Egg B:

Not quite as tilted as egg 22, but still tilted, I think.

Unfortunately, egg A did not pass this test, it is on the right in this image, egg 22 on the left:

The other test that you can do is the heat test. You set the eggs out and let them cool down for five minutes, and then feel them. If the pointy end of the egg is warmer than the air cell end, then there's a baby in there keeping it warmer. I am please to say that both 22 and B passed! Egg A did not pass, and in fact cooled down much faster than 22 and B did and maintained the same cool temperature over the entire egg.

So, I believe my suspicions were right, and egg A's rapid weight loss does indicate that it's not developing. At this time I won't toss it, but I do think it's a dud. Egg 22 and B though seem to have babies!

 

[SilksterTN]

Day 30 update! Today is the first day that you can start doing tests on emu eggs to check if they are alive. There are two tests. One test is setting the egg on a flat surface. If it tilts with the air cell side up and the pointy side down, then there's likely a chick in the egg. So egg 22, A, and B got tested, and well, check this out:

Egg 22:


I'd call that a tilt!

Egg B:


Not quite as tilted as egg 22, but still tilted, I think.

Unfortunately, egg A did not pass this test, it is on the right in this image, egg 22 on the left:



The other test that you can do is the heat test. You set the eggs out and let them coo down for five minutes, and then feel them. If the pointy end of the egg is warmer than the air cell end, then there's a baby in there keeping it warmer. I am please to say that both 22 and B passed! Egg A did not pass, and in fact cooled down much faster than 22 and B did and maintained the same cool temperature over the entire egg.

So, I believe my suspicions were right, and egg A's rapid weight loss does indicate that it's not developing. At this time I won't toss it, but I do think it's a dud. Egg 22 and B though seem to have babies!

Holy wow that's awesome!!!!!! Go babies go!

 

[N F C]

Day 30 update! Today is the first day that you can start doing tests on emu eggs to check if they are alive. There are two tests. One test is setting the egg on a flat surface. If it tilts with the air cell side up and the pointy side down, then there's likely a chick in the egg. So egg 22, A, and B got tested, and well, check this out:

Egg 22:

I'd call that a tilt!

Egg B:

Not quite as tilted as egg 22, but still tilted, I think.

Unfortunately, egg A did not pass this test, it is on the right in this image, egg 22 on the left:

The other test that you can do is the heat test. You set the eggs out and let them cool down for five minutes, and then feel them. If the pointy end of the egg is warmer than the air cell end, then there's a baby in there keeping it warmer. I am please to say that both 22 and B passed! Egg A did not pass, and in fact cooled down much faster than 22 and B did and maintained the same cool temperature over the entire egg.

So, I believe my suspicions were right, and egg A's rapid weight loss does indicate that it's not developing. At this time I won't toss it, but I do think it's a dud. Egg 22 and B though seem to have babies!

That's really interesting to see the tilt! Thanks for taking pictures to share with us

 

[MagpieDucks]

 

[Pyxis]

I made these for fun to better illustrate the tilts (or lack of tilt in A's case).