Abnormal Eggs

Red Oak Farm
3040 Big Buck Road
Trezevant, TN 38258
owners@redoakfarm.com

Abnormal Emu Eggs

Occasionally an abnormal egg will pop up (or out). An occasional abnormal egg is not something to worry about, especially in first year layers, but if the problem persists, there is probably a nutrition problem. For more information on this, we recommend Marie Minnaar's The Emu Farmer's Handbook, Vol. 1 & 2.

Below are some examples of abnormal eggs.

The turquoise egg shown here did not get the final dark layer of color when it was laid.	This "Volcano Egg" got extra layers of white color.
Shown here are two emu eggs, one is normal, the other is a double yolk egg. Double yolk eggs can hatch twins, but they can also have great difficulty in hatching. Most double yolked eggs are laid by first year layers whose hormone levels have not stabilized.	On the other end of the spectrum is the very tiny egg. Shown here next to a normal sized egg, the tiny egg may be fertile, but the chick would be extremely small.

Abnormal eggs do not hatch well, if they are fertile. For that reason we blow them out and sell them to egg artists or egg collectors who are looking for something a bit unusual.

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