I am trying to hatch emu eggs. I seen last night that one had a spot of yock on it, so I picked it off and then it leaked a tiny bit last night but the yock has hardened on the egg again and it is not leaking.

Okay so here is the question, is the egg bad, or can it still survive. I have no clue on how to candle an emu egg. The other egg is doing great and I do not want this one to ruin that one, so should I count my loss of the one egg and take it out, drain it, and set it on a self and call that my $10.00 egg?

Any advice would be apprecited. I have cleaned the incubator out since there was some yock in there.

If you see yellow yolk it is a bad egg because the egg yolk must be broken inside. Even if you patched the egg with some candle wax it would not develop normally.

If you only see egg white it could still make it if you haven't lost too much of the insides. The chance of hatching a chick goes way down, but in science classes we cut open eggs and sealed them with a glass window and candle wax and got some chicks to hatch. The vast majority of eggs treated this way develop for a while and quit.

Emus take 55 days to hatch. If the egg leaked enough to make a mess in your incubator I don't think that it will make it for 55 days.

A couple of years ago Emus were selling for cheap around here and people were releasing them in the wild because they couldn't feed them. I was told that a group of 10 birds sold for 15 dollars each at one animal sales. I bet you can find chicks for a reasonable price.

I often tell my students that the dumbest question that they can ask is the one that they don't ask and they find it on a test.

Thanks. Where in the world are you living at that people are releasing emus into the wild. The cheapest I have found chicks was for $20 but you had to buy a total of four and then pay for the shipping and I just want a breeding pair, because I think they are cute. I got my eggs for $6 plus 3.95 to ship for a total of 10 a egg, which I did not think was that bad since that was the cheapest I could find eggs. So if you know where I could find a few chicks cheap but healthy, let me know.

I am on 30 plus days of hatching.