A woman from East Sussex who bought an emu egg sold as a novelty food item on a farm on the Isle of Wight has managed to hatch it into a chick.

Gillian Stone, from Bexhill, who breeds chickens, brought home three large green emu eggs from a holiday and put them in an incubator in her kitchen.

Two turned out to be infertile, but after 52 days little Osborne hatched. He needed to be hand fed at first, but at nine days old he is now thriving and Ms Stone is hoping to get him a mate.

"We decided to risk putting the eggs in the incubator and, after a little bit of help Osborne arrived," she said. "He was destined to be an omelette [but] now he's an emu."

Osborne will grow to over 6ft tall and will soon move from Ms Stone's home to her smallholding nearby.
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Talk about luck there. I hope that's one happy little emu!

How nice, now waits and fatten em' up for X-mas dinner.

Nice and fast animals they are. Maybe this one will attach with you and go whereever you go. Now that would be a sight to see in a Mall or down the street somewhere.