I bought what were supposed to be some emu eggs and have been incubating them for the last month.
Last night I noticed that they were moving a little bit. I was pretty sure that I was just imagining it, because according to the book, there’s another month to go before they hatch.
But when I took a look into the incubator this morning, this is what I saw!!!
I’m beginning to suspect that the guy sold me the wrong kind of eggs.
Oviraptors? How nice.
We had a nice discussion over Easter dinner prompted by the re-release of the Jurassic Park movie yesterday. Since it’s release my two sons have grown up and become a molecular geneticist and a bio engineer respectively. We’ve been wondering why there aren’t more dinosaurs around.
Happy first day of April.
Excellent. Don’t start a theme park. I hear that doesn’t always go well.
Maybe that’s what baby emus look like…
Caroluna in 6 months:
Holy Tamoly… ! I’m outta here. 
Not a chance. There’s a field full of Emus down the road.
Them’s Oviraptors.
Yeah, yer right… !
I called the emu farmer who sold me the eggs. He apologized profusely, and said he’d be by in a couple of days to exchange these little guys for some proper emu eggs at the same stage of incubation. So, no worries. In the meantime he said they shouldn’t be too hard to take care of. They’re not velociraptors, these are much more innocuous. Apparently they eat plants, mollusks, and small vertebrates?
I mentioned that the neighbor has 3 small chihuahuas running around in the yard. “Better keep your guys inside, then.”
Here’s some pictures of what they might grow up into
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oviraptorosauria
I really hope I can get a tour of this guy’s farm at some point. He was kind of vague about the location though. Evasive, even. 
I must be missing something, and it’s either sarcasm, or I’m a bit behind the times. I thought oviraptors were extinct…
That’s what the government wants YOU PEOPLE to believe. Us Illuminati know better.
Check yesterday’s date…
