Recent content by Supreme Emu

Hmmm . . . food is good leverage: whatever food at all that they get might come from your hand. Sit still hard by while they eat. I don't know that this thought is at all scientific: I talk to my emus all the time. Don't forget it takes a lot of patience. For example, before they come up to...

I never thought I'd see a spazzy dance captured! Now, it's Sunday morning here, and I'm on the case (and I've just had Real Internet installed, and can watch video now). Read the following passage about avian courtship: “Dancing: Physical movements, from daring dives to intricate sequences...

Now, just for all the BYC readers who don't actually raise emus, these photos of the Wardens are really really especially good, I kid you not. Catching the chicks' spazzy dance so close and squarely on film took a very great deal of patience. Supreme Emu

Emus efficiently convert various foods (they love wheat) into neat little vegetarian manure pats that dry, and can be composted. I do it (and with kangaroo samo samo). Seriously though, they like all kinds of fruits and nuts. Meat? I haven't ever tried it. In request of space? More. As much as...

Foulman, how big is the fenced area on which your emus roam? I've seen them swimming, and I see a road in the background. Supreme Emu

Oh, Warden! I've been worried about this issue for a long time: my farmhouse is on an abandoned sheep farm. There is glass and junk lying about all over the place, and literally hundreds of yards of old wire fences. In places where there were lots of little bits of windscreen glass and the...

Look at their cute little talons! Cute talons?? Supreme Emu

Hmmm . . . I'm not quite sure if I understand the question, Mr. Mc. -- do you mean free-range emus? Three answers (assuming I understand the question . . . ): tame birds will stay because they are fed and because they don't see humans as a threat – in short, they love you. In this case, fences...

The guys at Kuranda say that, no, emus and cassowaries don't interbreed/haven't been interbred. Supreme Emu Just the other morning, an adult with five chicks came past the living-room window. They were so close I could have hit them with a tennis ball. The chicks were just past the...

'Emu-aries'? 'Cass-ues'?

If this were a classroom discussion, I'd be nodding sagely – nod, nod – but a look of yokel incomprehension would cross my face the moment a specific question was asked of me. Mr Wiki says: 'Although the Emu was long classified with its closest relatives, the cassowaries, in the family...

I have absolutely no idea, but I shall shadow this thread with interest. Supreme Emu

'How much room is adequate room for an emu?' I hear you ask, Duckchick. Well, it's a bit like shopping on Rodeo Drive. If you have to ask how much something is, you probably can't afford it. If you have to even think about whether you have enough room to run emus, you probably don't have enough...

Okay, Foulman, you've got me on the hook. That is very interesting! Supreme Emu

Well then, welcome. We look forward to learning with you. Some posters are breeders; some are owners of rescued creatures; I seem to be unique: there are a couple of posters here in Oz (where emus come from, you know . . . ); but I think I'm the ONLY one on the forum who has tame birds: I fed...