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Thank you everyone I love what I do and the trust that is between me and my birds I would not trade they will let me do anything , I have give shots and med by mouth ,I worm all my birds by mouth every year , never had any problem when my children were young they would sleep in a tent in there pen with the emu laying just inside the tent door , I never had to worry and never had an accident , we give them water crest which they love , yes they are my pets some of the best I ever had , my children used to feed them minnows by hand when they were babied and night crawlers lol they loved it I take people in there to let them pet them and see what they are like , I think the emu's love it as much as I the visitors do ,I don't know how they find our farm but most every weekend we get company wanting to see and take pictures , we had to put up surveillance cameras just to make sure no one goes in to the pen without me , even our local sheriffs department has our no# and comes by to see the big birds lol .
 
On one occasion, after deliberation, I decided to betray a bird's trust by capturing it: it has a massive tick right up under its throat. So, in full Emu Subjugation Mode, I went out to 'grab and bag' a double-alpha female.

'Failure' is just not a powerful-enough word, readers. My plot was to grab Greedy by the upper thigh, and get my other hand over her body, and lift her off the ground, etc, etc.

And bear in mind that she was sick and weak at the time.

Well, when I grabbed her thigh, she jumped straight up about three feet -- it was like trying to grab on to a passing train -- and bolted. It was like trying to grab on to a passing bus. She gave me the merest feather-touch of a slash Somewhere In There. It came up yellow and black the next day.

Luckily, she forgave me. I made repeated winter-numb-fingers lunges at the tick, and eventually got it.



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briefvisit said:
'Failure' is just not a powerful-enough word, readers. My plot was to grab Greedy by the upper thigh, and get my other hand over her body, and lift her off the ground, etc, etc.
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Eeeek, no.

To subdue an Emu, you grab ahold of the animal from behind and grab the two little wings but be prepared to give "slack" with your arms. If she jumps up, you don't try to keep her on the ground by the wings. Think of fishing, never applying pressure at the same time the fish is using all its strength in the opposite direction, you don't want to break the line or in this case damage the wings.

You then use your body to press her down onto the ground and you straddle her. In this position she can't do much but sit there. When done you simply get up and back away. This is what I do to administer shots, oral meds, whatever.
 
I have went out when the sheriffs dept has called to get wild emu off the hwy , and caught 4 and loaded them , by grabbing gently by the neck when they go past you and laying it on there back and putting pressure on the back, they will lie down ,
 
Thank you, guys. That is good advice. Still though, the birds you speak of must have already been pretty tame. Surely in six years no emu I have tamed has ever let me get beside, let alone behind, it. They approach oh so warily from the front (with their evil dinosaur eyes fixed intently upon you). My joke about Felicity Emu being a 'nice person' is only a half a joke. She is always skittish, but she will almost stand still for 'just a pat.' But you can see in her eyes that her wariness is not aggressiveness.

Greedy, though, is brash; she loves wheat and sultanas . . . but she is electrically tense when she is within four or five feet of you.

I fed Number One, when she was young, morning and night for seven hundred days,, and she never got closer than ten feet.

It must be the starting-from-Day-One factor.

I will go now to hunt for a photo of Greedy. Back soon.

se
 
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nah can't find it
there is a photo of Greedy somewhere
her eye tells you plainly that she is a wild critter

se
 
What brilliant guard animals they must make. here in South Africa they use ostriches as livestock guarding animals against thieves. and remember we have Boerbulls, but the ostriches are meaner. I have a pet chicken that sleeps on my pillow at night and cuddles with me on the couch and is in all practicality a dog. But she attacks people to the point I have to put her away when my friend comes to visit. she draws blood - little bantam orpington hen! Parrots do, too, so that will tell you how aggressive birds are. very tempted to get an Emu, but that will have to wait until I have a farm I guess. and no other humans in my life. lol
I get the distinction between tamed and domesticated. maybe a turkey hen? I am allergic to anything furry but am in LOVE LOVE LOVE with animals for my life.. what to do...fish, tortoises,lizards, snakes and spiders are just no fun to cuddle on the couch with..trust me, I've had them all
 

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