Bummer :(
You can always try to find hand raised chicks in your area. There are normally a couple people in any given area hatching and selling chicks through April and May.
Unless you like the hatching part too, which I understand.
Thank you for the update! It always stinks seeing that a chick made it a ways into development and then died.
I’m going to guess it was probably a combination of temps too high and smaller incubator. I first started hatching with a small incubator and quickly found out a cabinet incubator is...
I would give it a few more days. But with no movement in any eggs, that’s not a good sign. Doesn’t mean that they’re for sure not alive but it leans in that direction.
Another important thing with emu eggs is they need fresh air daily. They release a lot of carbon dioxide, so opening the...
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If my math is correct, 37.7C is 99.8F. That’s a bit warm for emu eggs. The warmest I’ve seen my incubator is just shy of 97.7F. Which put the eggs at 49 to 50 days for hatch. I dont have experience with that warm of incubator temps for emu eggs.
You should see some movement as...
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Not this year :( The emus laid a total of 6 eggs this season. They stopped laying 6 weeks ago. 3 eggs started to stink and 2 chicks died at hatch so far. So everything is out of whack. 1 egg left.
If these darn emus would lay I’d join! One female has laid only 6 eggs this season so far. The younger female hasnt laid at all. The last egg from the older female was over 3 weeks ago 😕 Only 4 of the eggs are left in the incubator. Two started to stink.
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It’s fine for him to sit on the eggs in those temps. The question is, do you want to ensure the eggs hatch? Some younger males will just go and get off the eggs too early. Also, do you want hand raised chicks, or emu raised chicks?
I had a hen that got tangled up in emu feet. Snapped a leg. She was splinted up and put in a small duck house so she could recover. Splint was too tight and her foot turned green by the second day. Loosened the splint and waited.
Surprisingly, she made a full recovery and only lost one toe on...