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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    What fun! A cassowary chick practising slash-kicks. They are a very interesting species!!!
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    So: it seems odd; but we rather often discourage folks from buying emus: it's a big big project. It's not cheap. They may live for twenty years or more. But cassowaries? Times 5 difficulty and expense
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    The second aspect is the legendary orneriness of the cassowaries. It annoys me no end that ninnies post on the Net about 'dangerous' emus, how 'an emu attacked me.' Now, ostriches are mean and big; but cassowaries are legendarily aggressive. I was sitting in the garden at dawn, feeding sultanas...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Sorry for the late reply. So, somewhere in the archives you should find 'Acqua eyes'? I'm not sure of the name, but years ago there was a member here who had captive cassowaries. But I can take a wild swing at this one. In one respect, their care is the same as for, say, an emu: secure...
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    Emu breast

    It's not her vocal sac? SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This clip is just to show how wonderfully tame they are becoming. They just love dried grapes -- 'sultanas' SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This clip, taken several days ago, is better than the one I got this morning. A page back is the Baby Dinosaur Fluffy Bum photo. There's a little fluffy toosh-feather growth happening. Very nice. Now have a look at today's clip. You can see the 'eruption' of black feathers in their tooshes and...
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This is what they'll look like. (This Dad, by the way, is Limpy Chick's brother, 'Toosh Toosh.')
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    So, Number One is the top of the neck. You can see a sort of 'bursting through' of black pin feathers. In a month, those fuzzy pin feathers will extend from the neck to the top of the head -- 'black head.'
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Today is not about cute. The chicks are now one season old, and these photos show that they have begun blasting from Baby Plumage Nos. 2 – brown with watermelon stripes – to ‘black head.’ My excuse is that they just never stop moving.
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Photos later. The biggest chick is clearly shifting to black-head plumage. SE
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    'e.g. your yellow flowers for Emus and White Cedar also known as Cape Lilac for Red Tailed Black Cockatoos in the Midwest' Ah!
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    This photo is an insight into The Project. The tame-wild birds -- like Undersized Emu -- come and go seamlessly with the fully wild birds. Several days ago, we audited at dawn. Two females were vocal. One we knew was U.E. We expected her to come out for breakfast. But she didn't -- and there's...
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Random wild horse photo
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    Wild Emus at The Lilly Pilly Tree

    Catch-Up Notes Emu chicks start developing ‘black head’ plumage at about one season – twelve weeks. That is a fortnight from now. Feel free to laugh. I've been peering at their tooshes and the tops of their necks. It's the top of the necks where you usually see the first signs: tiny black pin...
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    Lovely photos! I am here, posting occasionally on the Lilly Pilly thread. [Limpy Chick and his clutch here now, and Undersized Emu, and one random male.] SE
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    Our newest adventure, EMU's!

    'So 2.5 years of age.' We are both learning. So, these two birds are physically mature, which brings us back to discussions of how the forming of breeding-pairs works in accordance with . . . lots of different factors. SE
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