Comments on: Can Geese Incubate & Hatch Rhea Eggs Successfully? http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/ Meet the animals and harvest the information without getting your hands dirty! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:08:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Sara @ Farming Friends http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/#comment-11388 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:37:31 +0000 http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/#comment-11388 Hi Wayne, Thank you for visiting farmingfriends and leaving a comment. I have heard that eggs can hatch out up to ten days late so I would keep the egg in the incubator especially if as you say it is still alive. Look out to see if the chick has pipped the shell and if so keep an eye on this because if the egg is cracked for a number of hours without a lot happening then you will need to decide if you are going to help the rhea chick out. When incubating quail and guinea fowl I have found that if the egg pips and nothing much is happening after about 2-6 hours then I make the decision whether I am going to help the chick out, depending on what else is happening to the other eggs in the incubator. if you have only one egg then if it pips and nothing much has happenined after a couple of hours then if it was me I would probably try to crack some of the egg and peal back the membrane to try to help the chick. If you do this you do need to be careful not to make the chick bleed and it is also important to peel back as much of the mebrane as you can so that when you place the chick and egg back in the incubator the membrane doesn't dry onto the chick making it more difficult for the chick to hatch. I hope that your rhea has hatched successfully. Let me know how you got on. Kind regards Sara @ farmingfriends Hi Wayne,
Thank you for visiting farmingfriends and leaving a comment.
I have heard that eggs can hatch out up to ten days late so I would keep the egg in the incubator especially if as you say it is still alive. Look out to see if the chick has pipped the shell and if so keep an eye on this because if the egg is cracked for a number of hours without a lot happening then you will need to decide if you are going to help the rhea chick out. When incubating quail and guinea fowl I have found that if the egg pips and nothing much is happening after about 2-6 hours then I make the decision whether I am going to help the chick out, depending on what else is happening to the other eggs in the incubator. if you have only one egg then if it pips and nothing much has happenined after a couple of hours then if it was me I would probably try to crack some of the egg and peal back the membrane to try to help the chick. If you do this you do need to be careful not to make the chick bleed and it is also important to peel back as much of the mebrane as you can so that when you place the chick and egg back in the incubator the membrane doesn’t dry onto the chick making it more difficult for the chick to hatch.
I hope that your rhea has hatched successfully. Let me know how you got on.
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

]]> by: wayne bodman http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/#comment-11332 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:31:28 +0000 http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/#comment-11332 hi can u help. i have a rhea egg in my incubator and it is well over due to hatch. it is now day 48 and still nothing i have listened to the egg and it is still alive inside. i have stopped turning the egg after day 33. what should i do? hi can u help.
i have a rhea egg in my incubator and it is well over due to hatch. it is now day 48 and still nothing i have listened to the egg and it is still alive inside. i have stopped turning the egg after day 33. what should i do?

]]> by: kris http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/#comment-10530 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:38:05 +0000 http://www.farmingfriends.com/can-geese-incubate-hatch-rhea-eggs-successfully/#comment-10530 hi can you help i have 2 rhea eggs in the incubator now for 35 days, i candle them but comparing them to other sites the egg is not full i would say two thirds full, do you think they have died, how much longer should i give them untill i bin them? thanks kris hi
can you help

i have 2 rhea eggs in the incubator now for 35 days, i candle them but comparing them to other sites the egg is not full i would say two thirds full, do you think they have died, how much longer should i give them untill i bin them?

thanks

kris

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