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  1. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Last post: Overall though, my blindness is coming on faster than I thought. I’m gonna bite the bullet now, and reduce my world to bedding and clothes and a saucepan. Then I may be able to ‘hold down’ the farmhouse, and not wind up in a twilight home in Cementville. Ya know, it has always...
  2. Tame Emu Guy

    Emu Chick Mortality

    Hey, Grassman!! One of the good things about captivity is that a bird like this gets a fighting chance. We know it wouldn’t survive in the wild. So, if it has begun to walk – and is thus exercising those weak legs – and eating . . . well, she has the chance to catch up. Go, little emu!! That...
  3. Tame Emu Guy

    Photo Gallery

    SPLAYED-LEG-PREVENTION INFORMATION, courtesy of Casuarius Leg issues are something that took me years to figure out, and finally my friend whom is a doctor found the problem. Its due to vitamin D deficiency, which causes a condition called Rickets. There are no feeds I have found that has...
  4. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Back of Oudman’s!! [My Internet provider can’t repair my satellite, so I can't upload photos – apparently isolation is too big a challenge for a company that got Federal Government contracts to provide satellite Internet for Australians living in isolation. I will upload photos at the Internet...
  5. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Morning, Yinepu. If you can arrange it, play the sound of the female at 1:15 of Youtube Desert Emu, and see how Rose reacts. Supreme Emu is easily and often fooled, Yinepu. When you walk in gumboots, the boot taps against the back of your calf at each step -- see the clever emologist...
  6. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    General Felicity’s Campaign [Cold, raining; S.E. struggling.] Morning, readers!! Some days ago, a breeding-pair (A. and M.F.?) made an appearance. That’s no biggie. Then we had the Mexican-Standoff pair here – we’ll call them Sooty and Sootina. Felicty had no problem holding them at bay...
  7. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Felicity kneels down. Noddy makes a noise I’ve never heard: a low low rumble. Nothing happens. ?? S.E.
  8. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Morning, Citizens! Still in holding-pattern. F. and N. pop into the gums every morning after brekkie. Today is (seasonal) mid-winter. S.E. is striving to maintain a balance between not watching . . . and actually seeing what’s going on. Yesterday morning, Felicity headed off to the gums...
  9. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Here is the chronology of the wild emu’s mating-season. It’s a draft. Please offer comments. The things in italics are the things we are unsure of: # around December (mid-summer here): birds start looking for partners. # around March and April, autumn rains begin. Pasture becomes plentiful...
  10. Tame Emu Guy

    A video diary of my emu chicks

    Morning, Moonjelly. I have a request: could you provide the age of the chicks in each video. Hopefully, we’ll end up with a record of videos of chicks at known ages. S.E.
  11. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    ‘Mexican Standoff’ [A little break from cleaning] S.E. just had the fortune to observe a textbook Mexican standoff. But first, here’s a definition of a similar behaviour, a ‘bounce’: a bounce, readers, is when a female or a breeding-pair aggressively confront interloper birds, and drive...
  12. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Brief post this morning. Still no photos: Same pattern. F. and N. zipped into ‘their corner’ right after brekkie. S.E. heard, again, a really long long string of gurks from Noddy. There was a foreign pair here yesterday, and we observed them for some time. S.E. thought it might have been...
  13. Tame Emu Guy

    Splayed leg?

    Sincere thanks for this information, Casuarius. Knowledge like this validates the BYC project. S.E.
  14. Tame Emu Guy

    Rescued Emu

    Your dynamic gives you such a knowledge of ‘behavioural combinations’! I think we’re all going to learn a lot in the long run. S.E.
  15. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    Good morning, viewers. Welcome to Complete-Befuddlement News at Nine: ‘something’ is clearly still going on – I just can’t figure out what it is! So, F. and N. turned up at first light, and tucked into sultanas and wheat and lilly pillies and grass as usual. So far, so good. Then I saw...
  16. Tame Emu Guy

    Extra-Yummy Emu Pasture

    How pleasing to have started a new thread of thought!! ‘leaves the wider taller grass alone’ – yup. That makes sense. It’s harder to crop. About the heat of summer: too hot equals too much care and water – however . . . my neighbours and I were discussing the diversion of waste water into...
  17. Tame Emu Guy

    Rescued Emu

    Ah! Yes, E.S. – they swallow things ‘to taste them’! That’s a much clearer expression of the fact of it. I have used the term ‘beaking’: emus seem to ‘beak’ things to get information. And hey: when I was a kid, we were told stories about fake sapphires. One particular brand of bottle was...
  18. Tame Emu Guy

    Planet Rothschildi

    S.E. reports. S.E. doesn’t pretend to understand: Gee, campers . . . I can’t quite put my finger on it. The breeding-pair is undoubtedly behaving oddly: they are grazing far far less than usual (but lots of lilly pillies). They keep . . . hmmmm . . . they are moving in unusual...
  19. Tame Emu Guy

    Rescued Emu

    HI, D.D., they love shiny things. I suppose perhaps maybe a really hungry bird would 'taste' something inedible; but my birds eat really well, and they have had several run-ins with objects. Supreme Emu
  20. Tame Emu Guy

    Extra-Yummy Emu Pasture

    Would anyone with an emu pasture like to try an experiment? Guys, one thing is clear: the wild emus I watch much much prefer a couple of small patches of ‘pick’ in the huge area they have to choose from. Now, a couple of these need further investigation. However, sheep pooh seems to be a...
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