3 Feathers Emu News — emu eggs

If you are looking for emu chicks we still have some available. We have contacted everyone on our waiting list, and did not hear back from many, so if you have not gotten an email from Tony, please reach out. Or if you are still looking, please do the same. Please talk to Tony and calling in the afternoons is best: 360-748-3031.

A shout out to the Mason Middle School in Tacoma and Ms. Erica’s 6th grade class. They took the responsibility to incubate some big green emu eggs from our farm this spring as part of their Biology study. As you know from reading our Facebook posts these past months, hatching emus isn’t easy. They were successful and helped welcome a new wobbly head into the world. This is “Jake”, who has come back to the farm after the special care he received from all the students. They learned all about emus and we are very proud!!

We are breathing a HUGE sigh of relief!!! We had a bit of a scare during the last storm and power outage—a tripped breaker meant our incubators got dangerously cold and we were fairly certain (well, Tony was absolutely certain) we had lost all of our eggs in the incubators—they were full up with 9 trays of eggs so we were almost in tears!!!! Heartbreaking days. But… we just kept turning them and watching and hoping against hope… and OH MY GOODNESS—they have started to hatch. So…prayers answered and I am so thankful for it!!! Just love these little wobbly...

Well it’s about time!!! A few of our girls have started laying in the last several weeks and we are getting close to beginning our incubation. This is always the most exciting and stressful part of the year. We can’t wait for the season to begin.

Our first few trays of eggs are in the incubator!  We are watching carefully, but with a 52 day incubation period it is a waiting game.  First batch due March 12--how perfect.