We stay on a farm, and round got here the time of 12 months the place we hatch out chickens to interchange any that we misplaced the earlier 12 months.
Normally we supply the hatching eggs domestically, however this 12 months we determined to verify eBay for the eggs and we noticed emu hatching eggs. Naturally, we had been very curious and started researching about rearing emus.
In the long run, we determined pair of emus can be perfect, so we purchased 4 eggs because the vendor had them listed as about 50% fertility probability.
And that’s how Paul’s story commences.
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Emu egg vs hen egg
The quantity of an emu egg is roughly 14 occasions that of a daily hen egg.
Sadly solely one of many eggs was fertile. Right here is a photograph of the one emu that hatched. We didn’t know whether or not or not she would survive as a result of she was very weak and needed to be helped out of her shell.
I can’t assist however assume that perhaps we obtained the hatching course of improper and perhaps it’s our fault we didn’t have two wholesome chicks however we tried our greatest and did loads of analysis, at the least we obtained one chick.
Anyway, per week later and the chick seems to be significantly better! We determined to name her Paul shortly earlier than discovering that she might be a feminine however the title caught.
That is about 2 weeks after she hatched. We needed to drive down south for just a few days however there was nobody dwelling to take care of Paul so we took her with us. The journey was very messy however was an entertaining one to say the least!
Right here Paul is about 6 weeks previous, you may see her child feathers are beginning to disappear on her neck and you'll nearly make out her ear holes now.
There’s an enormous soar right here as a result of I went again to school for a few months. Her pretty stripes have gone off her head and neck and her again feathers are starting to show darker.
I assumed this might be the final picture I obtained of Paul
Shortly after the earlier picture was taken she obtained a really unhealthy bacterial an infection which she managed to cover from us for a very long time.
All of the sudden one night she might hardly stroll and wasn’t consuming or ingesting something. This picture is from the second time we took her to the vet; the primary time we took her we thought she was only a bit worse for put on however fortunately certainly one of our native vets used to work with ostriches in South Africa so he knew a good quantity about massive birds. Anyway, the vet informed us simply how unhealthy the scenario was and that it was unlikely she would make it. I took this picture as a result of I truthfully thought she’d cross away on the vets.
We’re extremely grateful to our vets, they didn’t cost us a penny for his or her time, just for the provides they used, as a result of they loved working with Paul a lot. We’re not precisely financially secure in the intervening time so we had been actually moved after they gave us the invoice.
And right here she is wanting a lot more healthy! It took about 2 weeks for her to recover from her sickness however she didn’t appear to develop in any respect in that point.
She spends a number of her days with our chickens. I feel she’s in all probability having an id disaster – unsure if she’s a hen, a canine, or an individual.
Current day – you may see that her head and neck are starting to show blue. She’s virtually at her largest now however will continue to grow for an additional 12 months nonetheless.
Sorry for the poor high quality on this one, however it was too good to go away out!
,We stay on a farm, and round got here the time of 12 months the place we hatch out,BoredPotato
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