The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[TeaChick]

Oh, that is awesome! I can't wait to see a baby Emu!!

I want one!

Oh, so cute!!!
I especially like the stripes and the egg color!

 

[Corny Caleb]

OH My you have your work set out for you!


This egg shell statement on the incubating suggestion scares me! I would be a fanatic weigher of eggs with them! WOW

Incubator temperature between 96.8 degrees and 97.5 degrees (97 preferred)
Incubator humidity between 27% and 34% (with 30% preferred)

Some egg shells are thicker than others thus requiring different amounts of humidity for optimum hatching rates. Very
few eggs loose the same amount of weight each week. On average they should loose around 2% of original weight
per week. Often a egg will loose 3% one week and 1% the next. We’ve hatched viable chicks from 12.5% to 17%
over all weight loss.


here is the link if anyone else is nosey like me http://ftp.aea-emu.org/sites/aea-emu.org/files/Hatching and Incubating - 2012.pdf

Thank you SO much for the link about hatching emus. This is my first time doing it, and I can use all the help I can get. Right now My incubator is about 96.8 degrees with 36 percent humidity. The eggs have been losing 10-20 grams of weight a week.

 

[TeaChick]

Thank you SO much for the link about hatching emus. This is my first time doing it, and I can use all the help I can get. Right now My incubator is about 96.8 degrees with 36 percent humidity. The eggs have been losing 10-20 grams of weight a week.

That is a massive egg!!! I've got to show DH. He'll want me to start keeping emus and make me get rid of my bantam. lol

 

[Gardeningmama]

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I'm going to sound stupid right now, but can you candle an egg that dark? If not then how would you be able to tell if the egg has an embryo growing in it? Or, do ya just wait and see?? This is very interesting, lol!

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Oh Hurray!!!!!!

I have been waiting for this thread to appear! I definitely will be joining again this year, and hopefully will have a MUCH better hatch than last year!

At least I will be sure to properly check my thermometers the FIRST time this year! LOL!

I am actually hoping to have a broody to hatch for me this year, but if no one volunteers I will at least get some eggs started in my LG. I have three new breeding coops to hatch from this year and I am SOOOO EGG-CITED! I have Blue Barred Rocks from my prize eggs from Brookhavens from last year's Easter Hatch, Blue Copper Marans, with a few EE's thrown in for Olive Eggers, and our main coop with a Buff Orpington Rooster over 9 BO, 2 WO, 4 BA, 2 PR, 2 SLW 8 EE, and a few mixed Hens.

Thanks again to Happy Chooks, Sally Sunshine, and everyone else who helps to make these hatch-along's run smoothly!!!!

I am SOOOO looking forward to SPRING this year!!!!

 

[Corny Caleb]

That is a massive egg!!! I've got to show DH. He'll want me to start keeping emus and make me get rid of my bantam. lol

And THAT was the first egg, (which was the smallest!!! lol). I have to post a pic of the egg saved for the hatch-along! It's REALLY BIG

And bantams are basically the same as emu....give or take 130 lb lolol

 

[chicken pickin]

Thank you SO much for the link about hatching emus. This is my first time doing it, and I can use all the help I can get. Right now My incubator is about 96.8 degrees with 36 percent humidity. The eggs have been losing 10-20 grams of weight a week.

Such a BEAUTIFUL egg! That color is AMAZING!

 

[Corny Caleb]

I'm going to sound stupid right now, but can you candle an egg that dark? If not then how would you be able to tell if the egg has an embryo growing in it? Or, do ya just wait and see?? This is very interesting, lol!

I know it's impossible to candle them. But there are wiggle and knocking checks you can do later in the development. But it's mostly a waiting game....pretty darn painful lol.

 

[Corny Caleb]

The first 2 which are already incubating.

 

[TeaChick]

The first 2 which are already incubating.

Just enormous. I put my chicken's eggs in the pocket of my hoodie in the evenings. I'd have to bring out a laundry basket to collect those eggs!!!

And THAT was the first egg, (which was the smallest!!! lol). I have to post a pic of the egg saved for the hatch-along! It's REALLY BIG

And bantams are basically the same as emu....give or take 130 lb lolol

A hundred and thirty pounds?????

Wow! I'll have to find an emu thread on here and see if that's even reasonable for us.