Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[aliciaplus3]

sweetheart watching quietly from her corner as babies come rushing to get a fresh drink of water last night. It's so cold their water freezes day and night. We change it twice a day but the babies come running every time we go in.

 

[FortCluck]

View attachment 2018966sweetheart watching quietly from her corner as babies come rushing to get a fresh drink of water last night. It's so cold their water freezes day and night. We change it twice a day but the babies come running every time we go in.

I want to pet them they're so cute

 

[Rockporters]

Here I am!

4 Emu eggs into the ‘bator last Saturday. I’ve weighed once, and they lost a little too much weight. My temp was high (98) for some reason, so I turned it down to 97. If all goes well they should hatch the week of 3/22/20.

I am also on a waitlist for English Orpington eggs. I have Serama eggs coming this week, but they’ll hatch in Feb.

 

[Rockporters]

There is one egg still good in the incubator

Thanks to wolfwalker, I’ll get some closer emu eggs hopefully next week. My sister lives right there and is up for the task.

Can’t have just one emu Actually... at this point I’d be happy with one.

Oh no! Not again! I’m sorry.

You should really get some eggs from the guy I ordered from. Not close, but everyone seems to have great hatch rates from his eggs. One person just got a 100% hatch rate. Anyway, his prices are very reasonable.

 

[FortCluck]

Here I am!

4 Emu eggs into the ‘bator last Saturday. I’ve weighed once, and they lost a little too much weight. My temp was high (98) for some reason, so I turned it down to 97. If all goes well they should hatch the week of 3/22/20.

I am also on a waitlist for English Orpington eggs. I have Serama eggs coming this week, but they’ll hatch in Feb.

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I really want to get my hands on some ostrich eggs. I love ostrich. My grandfather used to incubate them and raise them when I was a kid, I fell in love with those dumb birds they used to make me laugh so hard. We were helping fix their stalls and they kept pecking us on the head and stuff

One of them stuck its head near my grandfather's workbench and started eating stuff of it they're so funny.

 

[FortCluck]

Oh no! Not again! I’m sorry.

You should really get some eggs from the guy I ordered from. Not close, but everyone seems to have great hatch rates from his eggs. One person just got a 100% hatch rate. Anyway, his prices are very reasonable.

Does he have a site?

 

[aliciaplus3]

I want to pet them they're so cute

I am so happy with this hen! she is the one that managed to hatch 4 babies from 6 eggs and all 4 are still alive, granted 2 in the house but still

 

[FortCluck]

I am so happy with this hen! she is the one that managed to hatch 4 babies from 6 eggs and all 4 are still alive, granted 2 in the house but still

She's a keeper then!

 

[Rockporters]

I really want to get my hands on some ostrich eggs. I love ostrich. My grandfather used to incubate them and raise them when I was a kid, I fell in love with those dumb birds they used to make me laugh so hard. We were helping fix their stalls and they kept pecking us on the head and stuff

One of them stuck its head near my grandfather's workbench and started eating stuff of it they're so funny.

I have always heard that Ostrich are mean. I’d love to have one if it wouldn’t terrorize us lol!

 

[FortCluck]

I have always heard that Ostrich are mean. I’d love to have one if it wouldn’t terrorize us lol!

His were never mean but I think it's because he spent a lot of time with them. They were basically trained. When he would yell they would just look at him and smarten up.

They were like big dogs. When they would use the bathroom it would sound like a toilet flushing

There's an ostrich at the zoo near our house and they bring you on like a safari ride and I swear that ostrich always tries to get me every time I go in there It's the same ostrich every single time.

There was a cute emu when I went to the zoo a couple of months ago and he was sad because nobody was feeding him. So I brought a ton of food over and started feeding him. A lot of people were looking at me like I was crazy because they thought he was aggressive. But I think people are scared of such large birds due to false information people spread.