Pyxis' Emu Chat Thread

[kumquat]

Fantastic visuals! Love seeing the tilt angles.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

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 is awesome
Very interesting!

 

[Pyxis]

While turning the eggs, I decided to start whistling to them. Just did a turn, whistled to the eggs, and egg B wiggled Definitely a baby in there!

 

[SilksterTN]

While turning the eggs, I decided to start whistling to them. Just did a turn, whistled to the eggs, and egg B wiggled Definitely a baby in there!

That is soooooooooooo exciting!!! Happy dance!

 

[WVduckchick]

Eeeeeee!

 

[N F C]

While turning the eggs, I decided to start whistling to them. Just did a turn, whistled to the eggs, and egg B wiggled Definitely a baby in there!

That is so cool!

 

[JaeG]

While turning the eggs, I decided to start whistling to them. Just did a turn, whistled to the eggs, and egg B wiggled Definitely a baby in there!

That's amazing! How many more days of incubation to go? That must make all the waiting worth it.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

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

View attachment 1302576 View attachment 1302577

 

[Pyxis]

That's amazing! How many more days of incubation to go? That must make all the waiting worth it.

19 more days left The earliest I have heard of eggs wiggling before is day 32, so I really wasn't expecting it. But B is a pretty small egg, so that might be why.

I'm gonna try to catch it on video next turn

 

[SilksterTN]

19 more days left The earliest I have heard of eggs wiggling before is day 32, so I really wasn't expecting it. But B is a pretty small egg, so that might be why.

I'm gonna try to catch it on video next turn

Video would be epic!!