- Oct 4, 2014
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hey everybody I just adopted an emu from a local animal shelter for 40 bucks haha what a deal anyway im new to raising emus I am very familiar with other birds but this one is a bit of a challenge the few problems I have had with him is that he paces almost all day unless im in there with him and even then he will sometimes I have read a lot about them and I also found out that he was captured as a stray from the area so I assume this is why he paces but the biggest concern is that I have been feeding him flock raiser in crumble form and he seems to spit most of it out when I feed him by hand but im not sure what this is about also he is weird around the water trough he looks at it and walks away I have only seen him drink once last night but I have been gone most the day in school I will be able to monitor him closely for the next 5 days or so I hope to see him drink more eat more and stop pacing but any help would be appreciated