Many people keep pets, and some even hatch chicks. Xie Tao, a 24-year-old man from Xiamen, Fujian province, has earlier disguised himself as an ostrich father and spent five months successfully hatching ostriches at home with a computer CPU.
At present, his hatching ostrich video has been broadcasted more than 2.2 million, Xie Tao also updated the growth of ostrich dynamics, feeding and other daily life, many netizens have become “cloud parents”, daily urged him to update the status of the ostrich.
Xie Tao works in a cloud computing company in Xiamen. He said that the computer CPU, graphics card and other hardware heat can be fried eggs, baked meat, there are also some bloggers have done a similar challenge, so he had the idea of hatching eggs, and began a “hatching egg journey”. During the new pneumonia epidemic, Xietao, who had nothing to do at home, completed his first egg hatching and used the CPU to hatch a flock of baby quails. After that, he spent 51 days hatching emus, but the emus died soon after.
Xie Tao revealed that he bought eight ostrich eggs and taught himself about hatching on the Internet, but only one of them hatched successfully and was named “Kang Kang”. He said straight away that he had to invest a lot of time and energy in hatching ostriches at home, and the cost was also very high, with 238 yuan needed to buy an ostrich egg from the farm and more than 1,000 yuan spent on hatching equipment later.
Xie Tao successfully hatched the ostrich “Kang Kang”. (Screenshot)
Hatching quail with a CPU.
Hatching quail with a CPU.
He explained that he tried the “waterbed hatching” method for the first time to hatch ostrich eggs, but was unsuccessful due to uneven heating. The second time he purchased fully automatic incubation equipment, the incubation temperature was adjusted to 36.7 ℃, but on the 45th day of incubation, the ostrich failed to break the shell. In the third incubation, he adopted a more scientific approach, including using a torch to observe the situation inside the egg, a temperature gun to monitor the temperature at all times, recording the location of changes in the air chamber, transferring the baby ostrich to a brooder immediately after it broke its shell, and carefully removing the egg shell for the ostrich.
The baby ostrich breaks its shell.
After the baby ostrich broke its shell, it was immediately transferred to the brooder.
Finally, the baby ostrich broke out of its shell on New Year’s Day this year, bringing the five-month ostrich hatching journey to a successful conclusion, and Xie Tao even said in his self-produced film “5 Months, Ostrich Hatching Success”, “5 months, I finally waited for this moment.
The ostrich hatching has attracted a lot of attention from netizens, and Xie Tao has been updating the growth of the ostrich, feeding it, taking it to the sun, etc. The “human-bird routine” has been well received by netizens. As for the ostrich’s home after it grows up, Xie Tao said the ostrich will be sent back home to Sichuan after it grows up, “the rural area is big, and the food is free”.
Removal of eggshells for small ostriches.
The emu and ostrich are among the more difficult birds to hatch, said Jiang Hao, a senior engineer and animal expert at the Taoniu Lake Safari Park. The hatching rate of ostrich eggs is generally above 80%, and the success of hatching depends mainly on the quality of the incubator and the skill of the operator.
Nanjing forestry department said that the majority of species of ostriches are not in the protection list, so there is no need to apply for a permit, and if you raise ostriches in the protection list, you have to go to the forestry department for a “wildlife domestication and breeding license”.
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