The fact that on the Internet you can buy everything, has long been no news. But while someone is looking for a new dress or smartphone, there are cranks who, for complete happiness, lack only the eggs of an exotic bird!
And it's not a joke - Charlotte Harrison from Bordon (Hampshire) could not cope with her passion in front of the monitor, and bought an e-bird egg emu for $ 30. Do you want to know what happened?
His unusual purchase, sent from the county of Dorset, the girl received in a box of polystyrene on November 17th. Its content was an egg the size of a palm and weighing 175 grams.
But on this excitement Charlotte only began to gain momentum - she reread all the available information on the Web and found out that it was in November that emu begins the breeding season. But this is a chance to try to get your own live exotic bird!
You will not believe, but Charlotte even bought a home system for incubating eggs:
"On specialized sites, I read that during the incubation period, the egg should lose 15% of water and, correspondingly, weight. I had to constantly monitor the level of humidity and regulate it. But the most important thing is that I hid the incubator in the room of my young son Rice, since he was in a room with the curious 4-year-old daughter of Ellie, none of this would have happened! "
The next 35 days, as the egg turned out to be in the incubator, Charlotte's life differed little from the life of the emu female. The woman watched the "ward" every minute, weighing, turning it over and adjusting the humidity.
"Everyone who came to visit us was fascinated," recalls Charlotte. "And we had no idea what I was doing or not. We just had hope ... "
In mid-December, on the 36th day of the trial, Charlotte removed the egg from the incubator and placed it on a towel. It turned out that in order for a bird to feel like in a natural habitat, it needed to create a sound background. And the woman had no choice but to start to squeak, squeak and make noise, imitating the sounds of emu in living nature!
And, you think, it did not work? For 12 days Charlotte creaked and whistled, and the chick heard! On January 5, the shell cracked, and the favorite pet of the family appeared.
"When my daughter first saw a chick, she was so excited," Charlotte tells us. "Ellie immediately came up with a name for him - Kevin, in honor of her favorite character from the Disney cartoon" Up ". And what happened to me gave a tide of tenderness and a desire to take care of it. It's incredible that my purchase on eBay ended this way! "
Charlotte admits that Kevin is the sweetest and most serene creature:
"When I sit down on the couch, he presses against my leg. If someone takes it in hand, he looks for me with a look. I was the first one Kevin saw when he hatched, and he also remembered my voice with the creaks and noise and now thinks that I'm his mother! "
Today the chick is three weeks old, and he is already accustomed to the toilet, lovingly carrots a carrot and loves playing with teddy bears.
"My husband Darren persuades me to get rid of Kevin as soon as possible," Charlotte shares. "Emu is the second largest bird in the world and our baby grows very fast. But this is impossible. Every day we become attached to him more and more! "