Stuff found on emu egg

[Kaitlyn18]

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

Well of course or I wouldn’t have posted here. I’ll keep that in mind.

 

[Kaitlyn18]

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.

Yes I’ve done lots and lots of research before purchasing one. So far so good

 

[Kaitlyn18]

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

It had wiggled we do believe unless our eyes was just playing us. But it can vary between all eggs. Sometimes now or sometimes after day 40 and even one time a woman didn’t see any wiggling until day 49 and it hatched the next day.

 

[Pyxis]

Yes I’ve done lots and lots of research before purchasing one. So far so good

If you don't mind me asking, what did it weigh when you got it, and what does it weigh now? Just curious.

 

[Pyxis]

Just in case anyone wanted an update, the OP posted a new thread. Looks like the egg was bad as suspected

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-lower-humidity.1223766/#post-19606666

 

[Emu Island]

Just in case anyone wanted an update, the OP posted a new thread. Looks like the egg was bad as suspected

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-lower-humidity.1223766/#post-19606666

 

[Emu Island]

Thank you for posting that update. I realize this is from last year but with emu hatching season just starting again this question will surely come back up. Had it still been a viable egg they wouldn’t have felt any movement, so along with the substance on the egg that was another sign the egg had gone bad.
If the humidity was over 35% that was likely the cause.

 

[Pyxis]

Thank you for posting that update. I realize this is from last year but with emu hatching season just starting again this question will surely come back up. Had it still been a viable egg they wouldn’t have felt any movement, so along with the substance on the egg that was another sign the egg had gone bad.
If the humidity was over 35% that was likely the cause.

Adorable blondes in your avatar

 

[Emu Island]

Adorable blondes in your avatar

Thank you! We had visitors today that had never seen an emu, not even in a zoo. Most adults (especially men) are afraid to get near them but this one lady had no fear! She’s an animal whisperer for sure. Walked right in the paddock with 10 of them... 3 adults and 7 juveniles.

 

[Pyxis]

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Thank you! We had visitors today that had never seen an emu, not even in a zoo. Most adults (especially men) are afraid to get near them but this one lady had no fear! She’s an animal whisperer for sure. Walked right in the paddock with 10 of them... 3 adults and 7 juveniles.

Haha, that's funny because I've found the same. My Dad gets a bit freaked out by them, as does my male neighbor, but I've had female friends and relatives come over and they're happy to get right in there with them and pet them, etc.

Beautiful white emu you have, too. I'm hoping to hatch some whites from my blonde pair next year. Or track down some eggs from whites/blondes this year (I only add birds I've hatched myself to my farm, for the most part, biosecurity reasons) but I really doubt that'll happen, haha.