Stuff found on emu egg

[Granny Hatchet]

That person would never reply back to any posts that they tagged him or her in previously.

Lot of people dont see tags. Click his/her ? name and where it says start a convo you can send a pm there .

 

[casportpony]

I have no clue if it’s hard water or not. Look at the picture what do you think?

Are you using tap water or distilled water?

 

[casportpony]

We have a member that is doing these but Im not spelling the name right . Pixus or ??

@Pyxis

 

[Pyxis]

That person would never reply back to any posts that they tagged him or her in previously.

Sorry that I didn't reply to the tag on your previous post. You headed your post off in big bold all caps text saying that you only wanted experienced emu hatchers to reply, and I am not an experienced emu hatcher. I'm just doing my first emu hatch now. So I refrained from posting since it seemed that it would be unwelcome.

Anyway, your humidity is too high, from what I know. Have you been weighing the egg to track weight loss? Everywhere I have read and every breeder I have talked to has said that 35% is pretty much the highest you ever want it to be, and I've been tracking the weight loss on my eggs and it seems to hold with that advice.

If I had a chicken or duck egg doing what your egg is doing, I would think it was a leaking, bad egg, like lazy gardener said Hopefully it's just hard water buildup, but it very well could be a bad egg. I had hard water at my previous house and it never caused any spots like that on eggs.

 

[casportpony]

My mother just said we have hard water and I put a bowl of water of the water in there since beginning of incubation

It's best to used distilled water in incubators. Can you have your mom get some for you?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Sorry that I didn't reply to tags on your previous post. You headed your post off in big bold text saying that you only wanted experienced emu hatchers to reply, and I am not an experienced emu hatcher. I'm just doing my first hatch now. So I refrained from posting since it seemed that it would be unwelcome.

Anyway, your humidity is too high, from what I know. Have you been weighing the egg to track weight loss? Everywhere I have read and every breeder I have talked to has said that 35% is pretty much the highest you ever want it to be, and I've been tracking the weight loss on my eggs and it seems to hold with that advice.

If I had a chicken or duck egg doing what your egg is doing, I would think it was a leaking, bad egg, like lazy gardener said

Thank you for replying Pyxis

 

[Pyxis]

Thank you for replying Pyxis

No problem! I do try to reply when I'm tagged if I can help

 

[Granny Hatchet]

So what she is feeling could possible be an egg about to explode? Will a water test work ?

 

[Kaitlyn18]

@Pyxis

Tap which is hard water

 

[casportpony]

Here is a link about incubators and water:
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/WaterMatters.aspx