Anyone else not like The White House on The Hill?

[Crestcrazy]

No, but they should have done some research and been prepared for the outcome. I've never had emus and after literally 4 hours of reasearch, knew better than to keep more females than males. You wouldn't keep two males with one female of any poultry talked about here.

Yeah I was thinking wrong , and they're being dumb !

 

[Crestcrazy]

All I'm saying is that you guys SEEM to be making a big deal out of it . Injury's and hardships come with owning animals. And as I ALREADY said the emu situation DOES need fixed !

I'm going to bed and won't respond till morning ! Night y'all .

 

[neo71665]

All I'm saying is that you guys SEEM to be making a big deal out of it . Injury's and hardships come with owning animals. And as I ALREADY said the emu situation DOES need fixed !

I'm going to bed and won't respond till morning ! Night y'all .

Apparently it isn't just the emu situation they want to be stupid about.
You are still defending poor choices. I have 2 pet coons, they are sweethearts I have leash trained. I'm not gonna lock them in my chicken coop and then complain why I don't have any chickens the next morning. I'm not gonna put my main bull in a pen with young bulls and expect them all to play nice because. Not gonna put my siamese cat in a kennel with my german shepard .

Common sense sadly isn't very common anymore.

 

[Crestcrazy]

Also I'm sorry for offending you guys. Maybe it is true and I just don't want to believe it .

 

[neo71665]

Also I'm sorry for offending you guys. Maybe it is true and I just don't want to believe it . But I personally love the channel because they show the hardships and pain along with joy and happiness , not just the good but the bad as well .

The support of bad choices might as well be guilty as doing the bad choices. Hardships and pains, stop supporting their bad and poor choices.

 

[Crestcrazy]

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[Pyxis]

How can you be prepared for something you don't know the outcome of ? Also it takes a couple months before you can tell genders !
What would you have done if you were in the same situation ?

Just to clear up some emu info here:

Emus are not sexually mature for two to three years. That means you have two years after they hatch to come up with some sort of housing solution, find another chick/adult bird to balance out gender ratios, etc.

Gender can be determined quite early on. Since you mentioned it can take several months, I assume they did DNA testing, because otherwise, it takes longer than a couple months to tell gender based on behavior and vocalizations, etc.

So, DNA sexing can be done as soon as they hatch. You only have to wait a few months to do it if you're wanting to use feathers, because you have to wait for them to grow actual feathers in, since down and 'baby feathers' don't work. But if you use blood, or better yet, the eggshell, you can have them DNA sexed as soon as they hatch. Which is what I did with mine. I knew all the genders of my emus before they were week old.

Even with waiting the few months to be able to use feathers, then that still means you know the gender at a few months old, giving you at least 15 months (since sometimes females will come into maturity in their second Fall, at 18 months) and quite possibly longer to figure out a pasture situation to keep them separate, or to find another male.

I've never watched this channel myself, I can't say anything about the treatment of their animals because I've never watched, so really I'm just posting to provide emu info. With emus you definitely have plenty of time to get something figured out with regards to breeding and hormonal behavior, because of how long it takes them to mature.

Maybe they were going to try to run a trio, I don't know. Sometimes, with some birds, you can get that to work. But you have to have a backup plan if it doesn't, and again, you'd have 15 months to three years to figure out what that plan should be and get it in place.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Just to clear up some emu info here:

Emus are not sexually mature for two to three years. That means you have two years after they hatch to come up with some sort of housing solution, find another chick/adult bird to balance out gender ratios, etc.

Gender can be determined quite early on. Since you mentioned it can take several months, I assume they did DNA testing, because otherwise, it takes longer than a couple months to tell gender based on behavior and vocalizations, etc.

So, DNA sexing can be done as soon as they hatch. You only have to wait a few months to do it if you're wanting to use feathers, because you have to wait for them to grow actual feathers in, since down and 'baby feathers' don't work. But if you use blood, or better yet, the eggshell, you can have them DNA sexed as soon as they hatch. Which is what I did with mine. I knew all the genders of my emus before they were week old.

Even with waiting the few months to be able to use feathers, then that still means you know the gender at a few months old, giving you at least 15 months (since sometimes females will come into maturity in their second Fall, at 18 months) and quite possibly longer to figure out a pasture situation to keep them separate, or to find another male.

I've never watched this channel myself, I can't say anything about the treatment of their animals because I've never watched, so really I'm just posting to provide emu info. With emus you definitely have plenty of time to get something figured out with regards to breeding and hormonal behavior, because of how long it takes them to mature.

Maybe they were going to try to run a trio, I don't know. Sometimes, with some birds, you can get that to work. But you have to have a backup plan if it doesn't, and again, you'd have 15 months to three years to figure out what that plan should be and get it in place.

Yes they did DNA testing on the very young birds and found out their genders right away.
Gender party video.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I don't know why I watch the show, its like watching a train wreck.
There are some awesome time lapse videos on chicks hatching that are my favorite.
The problem with people having a dairy cow milking into a couple quart jars is this: his cow is a Jersey. (Calling it a milk cow is like calling every bird a chicken. ) Even with 1 calf on they would need to thoroughly milk it out twice a day. Jerseys can milk 8 gallons a day! The calf would only drink 2 gallons maximum and ours only get 1 normally.
Even the Amish have automatic milking machines. My dad used to milk a cow by hand and get 2 gallons a day, these are not daddy's milk cows. Dairy cows have been bred to make lots and lots of milk, if you don't milk them they will die.
I'm hoping they will get tired of having to milk every day and they get rid of it before it dies.

 

[reddogmaster2]

Let's hope PETA never gets close to them. There are plenty of other, better organizations that can get involved.

Most of the foot soldiers for PETA exhibit irrational and mentally ill tendencies toward animals and are more destructive than helpful.