Stuff found on emu egg

[Kaitlyn18]

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

I’ve user tap two other times I’ve incubated. This is just my first time incubating an emu egg

 

[casportpony]

I’ve user tap two other times I’ve incubated. This is just my first time incubating an emu egg

Read the link.

 

[Kaitlyn18]

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

It doesn’t smell and many people said you were experienced. If it was bad and about to explode I read it would smell and the stuff it’s leaked was white with no smell. And I read that bad leaking egg would leak yellow honey colored liquid. I asked a emu breeder and they said the humidity is fine as long as it’s not loosing too much weight.

 

[Kaitlyn18]

Read the link.

Thanks but so far it hasn’t effected any other hatchings I’ve done.

 

[WVduckchick]

Can you rub the spots off?

 

[Chicks 'n ducks]

One way to tell if the embryo is still alive is to set it on a counter and whistle to it. It will wiggle if it is alive. Here's a video. Check it out! (It's #3 at the top)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-in-a-2017-18-emu-hatch-along.1212082/page-9

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Kaitlyn, We all hope your egg is good. Thats why we are here, we love birds. You have 2 educators here . Those badges are hard to come by unless they know their stuff. We are just giving you the best suggestions we have. Maybe it will all be ok and you end up with a healthy bird , maybe not. But, I would like to thank them for taking time out of their busy day to come . I wish you much luck oops, make that 3

 

[Kaitlyn18]

Can you rub the spots off?

Yes

 

[Pyxis]

It doesn’t smell and many people said you were experienced. If it was bad and about to explode I read it would smell and the stuff it’s leaked was white with no smell. And I read that bad leaking egg would leak yellow honey colored liquid. I asked a emu breeder and they said the humidity is fine as long as it’s not loosing too much weight.

Experienced with hatching yes. With hatching emus, no

So you are weighing it to make sure it's losing the right amount of weight? It should lose 15% of its weight over incubation. I'll use one of my eggs to illustrate what I mean.

One of my eggs weighs 570.2 grams. 15% of its weight is 85.53 grams. That means that it needs to lose about 1.75 grams a day calculated based on a day 50 hatch, maybe a little less because it could go longer than 50 days. So I weigh it each day or every other day to make sure that's what it's doing.

With humidity as high as yours, I'd be more worried that's not losing enough weight, not that it's losing too much.

 

[casportpony]

Thanks but so far it hasn’t effected any other hatchings I’ve done.

Good luck.