Question for those who have a few Emu friends already, relating to how an Emu Psyche works.
Please read properly before reacting, I am NOT envisaging bringing adult emus home, strapping electric dog collars on them and letting them go with next to no fencing! Obviously that would be dumb, irresponsible, cruel and doomed to failure.
My fence is 6' high deer fencing, not made of woven wire but of high tensile wire 6" apart, with full height wooden battens every 3' of fence.
My concern is in Emu getting necks or legs through it and hurting themselves. So I would prefer they not spend too much time in physical contact with the fence.
My thought was, to train hand raised chicks from a young age, properly introduced to the collar's warning systems etc on a lead before they ever are allowed off the lead in the pasture.
The collar has the beep/buzz/vibrate/mild shock/increasing intensity (to a point) cycle, with the timing and current specially calibrated for the kindest effectiveness and safety of emu. This is a custom made electronic device, not just a dog product, I make this sort of thing all the time with Arduino, they have been used (with appropriate adjustments) for everything from goats to chickens.
I gather that an ordinary electric fence does not work on Emu because A) their feathers are great insulators, and B) they only have two legs and not great ground contact. The collar has no such issues, being a)directly applied, and only a local area of shock between two points, not right through the bird to the ground, making it safer and kinder too, and of course the 'patient' must be properly educated to know what to expect and how to respond.
So my question to those who have Emu friends already and know their nature well, could such a device work as a reinforcement for the boundary, to keep them from sticking limbs through the fence? Do you think an Emu properly and responsibly trained to that system would respond to it? Does an Emu think that way?
Please read properly before reacting, I am NOT envisaging bringing adult emus home, strapping electric dog collars on them and letting them go with next to no fencing! Obviously that would be dumb, irresponsible, cruel and doomed to failure.
My fence is 6' high deer fencing, not made of woven wire but of high tensile wire 6" apart, with full height wooden battens every 3' of fence.
My concern is in Emu getting necks or legs through it and hurting themselves. So I would prefer they not spend too much time in physical contact with the fence.
My thought was, to train hand raised chicks from a young age, properly introduced to the collar's warning systems etc on a lead before they ever are allowed off the lead in the pasture.
The collar has the beep/buzz/vibrate/mild shock/increasing intensity (to a point) cycle, with the timing and current specially calibrated for the kindest effectiveness and safety of emu. This is a custom made electronic device, not just a dog product, I make this sort of thing all the time with Arduino, they have been used (with appropriate adjustments) for everything from goats to chickens.
I gather that an ordinary electric fence does not work on Emu because A) their feathers are great insulators, and B) they only have two legs and not great ground contact. The collar has no such issues, being a)directly applied, and only a local area of shock between two points, not right through the bird to the ground, making it safer and kinder too, and of course the 'patient' must be properly educated to know what to expect and how to respond.
So my question to those who have Emu friends already and know their nature well, could such a device work as a reinforcement for the boundary, to keep them from sticking limbs through the fence? Do you think an Emu properly and responsibly trained to that system would respond to it? Does an Emu think that way?
