' have been amazed at the number of people who have not considered how much room an adult emu requires and planned to raise then in an "old dog or chicken pen". When I get that for an answer, I refuse to consider selling them an emu, even if they get mad or offer me more that what I would...
And it's nostalgic to read posts here. Members like ES and Yinepu and Calla and Ashburnham and Ellamumu and Birdeo are well known to me.
The project here at Lake Muir -- notwithstanding my ill health/blindness -- hits its eleventh year only weeks from now. Eric is dead. Greedy is presumed dead...
'Occasionally the emus decide they don't want any chickens or ducks in the pen with them and they start chasing them. To make sure the littler birds can easily get away we built an interior pen within the emu pen and left a generous gap at the bottom for the chickens and ducks to slip right...
Just gonna type for the fun of it
got four emus here
it's autumn. mating season
Felicity rules
Number One, her sister, has turned up with a consort, a runty little male -- but it's the first time she (may) have mated. It was fun to see this bird get its first ever wheat.
And another female...
Ashburnham! So good to see you!!
And . . . I betcha a bottle of beer you can't find a nestig male next season.
Chicks r out. I haven't seen them but a friend had.
Number One is here at present
SE