Emu Egg Hatch-along

[Barbours]

I hope not, I've heard artificially hatched and brooded ones turn out nicer. But we'll see. I think even if I'm lucky only one will hatch but you never know.

True, maybe his were just psychotic

 

[The Moonshiner]

Wow apparently I’ve never seen an emu egg before? Those are gorgeous! Hope they hatch!

They are very cool looking. I need a couple to blow out but I can't be trusted with eggs.

 

[The Moonshiner]

True, maybe his were just psychotic

Cracker Emus?

 

[Barbours]

Me too
I'm going to try dad's thermal scope on them after a couple weeks and see what the heat signatures look like. I think it would be so cool if that works. I can take photos if anyone is interested in me checking them by pointing a rifle at them

That's actually so smart! I hope they hatch l, they're cute birbs!

 

[Barbours]

Cracker Emus?

Yep, that's gotta be the problem with them

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

I've got a long wait ahead, but thought it would be fun to start a thread to document things and hopefully get help if I have any questions. Everyone is welcome, but I'll add some tags at the end too. I'd greatly appreciate anyone that has hatched emus successfully to follow along too.

Back story : I went to the east coast the past couple weeks which was super fun, I've never been on that side of the country before. The first part of the trip I went to Cape Cod with my dad and hunted sea ducks. Our guide had a pair of emus that had just started laying for the year, and gave me two eggs. It was a bit tricky having them the rest of the trip since we also went to Connecticut and then to New York a couple times. These poor eggs have been all over the place.
I did my best to store them properly, I managed to keep them in the low 60s and turned them a few times a day. We finally flew back yesterday, and got them through security which was pretty funny. All of the TSA workers were quite amused. It'll probably be a miracle if either hatch and I don't even know that they're fertile, but I'm going to give it a go. I've never hatched emus, but I've hatched just about everything else.
I've read a few of the articles on here by @Pyxis and @yinepu , and decided to start incubation at 96.5 and 35% humidity. They were set last night at 7 P. M., and weighed in at 308 grams for egg #1 and 329 grams for egg #2. If my calculations are correct, egg #1 should lose a total of 47 grams for an end weight of 261 grams, losing approximately 6.33 grams per week and 0.9 per day. Egg #2 should lose a total of 49 grams for an end weight of 280 grams, losing approximately 6.60 grams per week and 0.94 per day.
I managed to fit them in my NR 360, by taking out the egg tray and sitting them right on the water channels. (not obviously filling that channel) I'm hoping this is OK, it seems fine to me and I think there's plenty of air flow around them. If this is a bad idea for some reason I haven't though of please let me know, haha. I have two big styrofoam incubators I can use as hatchers if the time comes, but I kind of hate them and really don't want to mess with keeping them stable the whole time. If they can stay in the NR 360 this way that would definitely be best. I have the vent all the way open and am turning them 5 times a day.

Incubation period at 96.5 degrees should be 52-54 days, with a due date of March 9th-11th.
Wish me luck!

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Those eggs are beautiful!

 

[Barbours]

They are very cool looking. I need a couple to blow out but I can't be trusted with eggs.

They are very cool looking and you can use one egg to cook breakfast for the whole family!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

How fun @MGG !!! I hope you have a successful hatch.

 

[MGG]

How fun @MGG !!! I hope you have a successful hatch.

Thank you!

 

[MGG]

Temp and humidity were perfect all day, I've got two meat thermometers and a digital thermometer that were all recently calibrated. One day down...lol.
51 to go.