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Did you know you can get Emu eggs in the mail?!? LOL!

I did it~ I just bought an emu egg on ebay........
Should come in next week~ I paid the $12.95 shipping~ but it says the seller is in Alabama so I may ask his location and see if it would be reasonable for me to go pick it up.

I don't know if I can hatch it.....
But I couldn't help myself~ I tried but I couldn't. I bought the emu egg! LOL!
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
I did it~ I just bought an emu egg on ebay........
Should come in next week~ I paid the $12.95 shipping~ but it says the seller is in Alabama so I may ask his location and see if it would be reasonable for me to go pick it up.

I don't know if I can hatch it.....
But I couldn't help myself~ I tried but I couldn't. I bought the emu egg! LOL!
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LMAO Cheryl

Well this should be an interesting thread to keep watching on... an emu egg.... AHAHAHA!

Good luck with it in any case... otherwise, that'll be a pretty big ole omlette youve got there! :thumbsup: :dgrin:
 
OMG Cheryl, that's just TOO funny.

I expect pics.....LOL.

If it won't be arriving til next week....is it an egg that was already laid before the auction started?
 
The auction says he is preselling them for eggs that will be laid next week
said he got tired of running one day auctions and having people not pay for the eggs~ so he is preselling for eggs that are to be laid. He had good feedback~ and it sounded like the egg would be fresh.........

and I really tried not to do it........
I really tried.....
BUT IT JUST SOUNDS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!
 
LOL, it should be fun if nothing else!

I had just gotten to thinking about the freshness of the egg, I would never hold them over a week before setting in the incubator, usually I cycled my new eggs in every 5 days.

What type of incubator are you using? Just curious, as this is one kind of egg I've never had the opportunity to hatch!
 
LMAO well if anyone ask why, you can tell them your hatchling T Rex only eats Chicks!!!

Yeah would like to see hatchling pics myself...Randy
 
gonna use one of the hovabators~ I've got two. Got Turkey eggs in one now~ gonna use the other for the emu egg~ supposed to be 97.5F for 55 days~ 1/4 turn every 6 hours (but it will probably get a 1/4 turn every 8 like the turkey eggs are getting). I figure I should still be done with both bators before the snakes lay any eggs~ and if I get too much into this whole hatching egg thing.......I do still have the ice chest incubator I made and the soda fridge one I'm making now...........
 
Are you sure it will fit into the Hovabator??

I would be concerned that with an egg that size, the heat would be uneven with the heat element at the top, if it does fit....LOL.
 
hhhhmmmm....I had not thought of that~
Guess I could plug in the ice chest incubator~ it will certainly be tall enough and the heat comes from the bottom........
I'm sure I won't need it in the next two months for snake eggs.......
Yep~ thats what I'll do!

I figure there is very little chance that I'll actually succeed in hatching it~ I know my family is hoping I won't ~ When I told them they all just stared at me! LOL! It will be so cool if I can though~ and I figure the $30 (with shipping) I spent on it is worth the novelty of trying!
 
I got it! LOL! My very first stupid, impulse animal purchase since the move! I put it in the incubator with my Turkey and Chicken eggs just to take a pic of the size of it! It's HUGE! LOL! Don't worry though I'm not cooking in that incubator~ it's supposed to cook 2 degree's less than the chicken and turkey eggs and for another month. I know 2F isn't much......but I really want to hatch it! I hope I can! I'll let you know in 50-55 days!

BTW~ those other eggs~ did you know you can see baby chickens/turkeys moving in the eggs within like 5 days when you candle them? It's so cool! I'm having so much fun! But I doubt with that dark a shell on the Emu egg that I'll be able to see into it with my little flashlight~ maybe the maglight? We'll try next week.
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The emu egg still has a month and half of incubation to go.......

But the Turkey eggs are rocking! You can see the eggs rock as the babies try to work a way out! Both the chicken and the Turkey eggs are due on the 31st~ I can't see anything happening with the chicken eggs~ but one of the Turkey eggs has a crack in it and two others are rocking!
 
I KNOW it's a reptile site........BUT THIS IS SO EXCITING FOR ME!!!!

Turkey hatching
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Blue slate turkey poult
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10 Chickens and 3 Turkeys (1 turkey and 5 more chicken eggs I'm hoping will hatch in incubator)
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I missed this yesterday......

AWWWWWW!!!! They look great Cheryl, congrats!! Did they all end up hatching for you?

Perhaps a bit after the fact, but be sure to keep a close eye on the poults to make sure they start eating and drinking....you shouldn't have a problem if they are kept with the chicks and they see them doing it, but often baby turkeys really ain't very bright, and you have to dip their little beak in the water and/or feed a couple of times for them to get the idea.
 
Thanks Cat~
12 of the chickens hatched and look good~
4 of the turkeys hatched~ but one has spraddled legs and one has a curled foot. I'm still on the fence if I should cull the curl foot or wait and see......but I'm going to cull the spraddle leg. He (she?)s had enough time to see if he could get up or not~ but he still litterally crawls through the brooder to the food and water using his little wings to push him cuz his legs won't stay under him.
 
Congrats Cheryl, cute little critters.
To bad about the two, one thing that may help in the future is to put the spraddle legged ones on a rougher surface, seems to help them some, though really bad ones can't be helped.

Cat, funny how Domestic turkeys are just so dumb compared to their wild ancestors. I used to put marbles in their water to get them drinking. OH lookie pretty colors!! and wow touch the pretty colors and your not thirsty anymore lol..

Randy
 
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