Sorry day 3 is a little late at night, but it's worth it. I am so excited to bring you this amazing video of an emu hatching. This chick is a lot smaller and lighter than the first chick that hatched. I can't even tell you how happy I am to have both my eggs hatch out beautiful healthy emu chicks. This is such an amazing video to me, to watch this little chick see the world for the first time. The entire process took 15 hours. This video was edited down to four and a half minutes to show each stage of the hatch. To think that I ordered this egg on ebay and it came to me as nothing and turned into this beautiful chick is simply mind blowing.

Check back tomorrow to see both chicks meet each other for the first time.

About the emu...

The emu is the second largest bird on the planet, standing nearly 6 tall, and weighing up to 120 pounds. Emus cannot fly but they are fast runners - up to 30 mph. Surprisingly, they are also strong swimmers. Some scientists consider emus to be living dinosaurs because their bones and joints are similar to dinosaurs'. Their ability to store fat allows them to go without food for long periods of time. Emus can defend themselves with tremendously powerful forward kicks. They eat great quantities of caterpillars, grasshoppers, and masses of the burrs that tangle sheep wool, which makes them helpful to farmers.