Emu pictures and stories.... post them here

Yinepu!

I was pleased to view the picture’s of the claws, and I’m always intrigued to ‘get close’ to the pet-owners’ bird.

Let’s start a gallery of photos, to which we can refer, and post in it ‘classical’ pictures pretty much strictly for reference – for example, a picture of a female ‘hunkered down’ to boom. Gonna do it right now!

Saw a wild bird doing a fantastic dawn-dawn-dawn spazzy dance yesterday. It was just a streak of white chest feathers in the grey light. Heard the first pre-dawn male-female conversation also.

Saw a splendid dark pair of emus by the road a little later.

A guy (who gave S.E. a lift to town) told me that at Donnelly, a hamlet over by the coast, there’s a sort of ‘eco-tourist’ thing sprung up spontaneously. Apparently, there’s a mob of ‘wild’ emus that have become really tame. That actually means they eat a lot of human food, so we might have reservations there; but this guy said that these birds are come-up-and-steal-your-french-fries tame.

S.E.
 
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Yinepu!

I was pleased to view the picture’s of the claws, and I’m always intrigued to ‘get close’ to the pet-owners’ bird.

Let’s start a gallery of photos, to which we can refer, and post in it ‘classical’ pictures pretty much strictly for reference – for example, a picture of a female ‘hunkered down’ to boom. Gonna do it right now!

Saw a wild bird doing a fantastic dawn-dawn-dawn spazzy dance yesterday. It was just a streak of white chest feathers in the grey light. Heard the first pre-dawn male-female conversation also.

Saw a splendid dark pair of emus by the road a little later.

A guy (who gave S.E. a lift to town) told me that at Donnelly, a hamlet over by the coast, there’s a sort of ‘eco-tourist’ thing sprung up spontaneously. Apparently, there’s a mob of ‘wild’ emus that have become really tame. That actually means they eat a lot of human food, so we might have reservations there; but this guy said that these birds are come-up-and-steal-your-french-fries tame.

S.E.

posted it for you over in the new thread!
 
You may absolutely reuse! Just credit to Wampa Stomp Farm in Cox's Creek, KY

She is goofy, as are the two young ones. They started doing the goofy dance steps!
 
I finally convinced DH that Emu can be manageable and tame.
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We have the acreage for a few and are putting in the fencing for cows now. Going to add corridors for the birds to have plenty of room to run the whole 5 acres
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I am pretty excited, this has been a dream for me for 40 years, since I met my first emu at a farm in northern IN. Now, to find eggs or chicks
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Please send any contacts or good, reliable breeders to me by PM, I have been reading and studying for years and am way past ready to make this real.
 
Today, I spent the morning blowing bubbles for my emu, everyone needs to do this, she went crazy, leaping, twirling, kicking... jumping as high as she could snapping at the bubbles as they floated away. Funniest thing ever, after a awhile she caught on to where the bubbles were coming from and she would wait and stare at the bubble wand until I blew more, then she would go crazy again. My husband is going to have me committed!
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Today, I spent the morning blowing bubbles for my emu, everyone needs to do this, she went crazy, leaping, twirling, kicking... jumping as high as she could snapping at the bubbles as they floated away. Funniest thing ever, after a awhile she caught on to where the bubbles were coming from and she would wait and stare at the bubble wand until I blew more, then she would go crazy again.
Youtube!!

I got such a kick out of this -- first, Supreme Emu talking about what an excellent natural habitat was in that video (the group of spazzy dancers) and then the emu that loves to chase bubbles (not exactly a characteristic of emu life in the wild
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) They really are adaptable critters!
 
Do I have this right?: Our Section – ratites – is the only place on BYC that has non-domestic birds?

If so, we’re the only ones in the situation of being able to compare data from both wild-wild and tame-wild and captive-wild birds.

That is, chickens were domesticated a long time ago; but the first captive emus – in the States, say, or the U.K. – were only raised fairly recently.

We have a member with cassowaries. (He belongs here, notwithstanding ‘Ostrich, Emu, Rhea,’ because cassowaries are ratities . . . ) I don’t think cassowaries have ever been raised for meat.

I don’t think we’ve ever had observations of wild ostriches, rheas, kiwis (ratites . . . ), or of the woodwardi emus.

I read that there are feral emus in Texas (and elsewhere) -- has anyone ever seen any?

If my health were better, I’d be Ratite Guy.

Does anyone have any idea if we can gain observations from these missing groups? What if someone went on holiday in Africa or New Zealand or even Queensland, Australia, and could provide any observations of wild ratites!!!!

Supreme Emu
 
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1894/mh-22.1

Feral emus in Texas!!! The bibliography has some valuably specific references – like a 40-hour stakeout of waterholes in Western Australia where emus drink.

Gee! References to feral emus in a half a dozen U.S. states!

Next:

‘You may not be aware that emu-farming was started in WA by a French company, without any public comment process, or adequate environmental or economic studies. Eggs from the WA sub-species were consequently sent to France, USA, South Africa, and any other country silly enough to let them in. At the last count I heard, there are 30,000 emus in France, and similar numbers in farms in other countries.’
[http://www.awpc.org.au/submissions/submission14.htm]


Sad Bit: there’s an ‘exotic hunting park’ in Texas, where you can shoot an emu. Mike is proudly pictured there with the emoo he deaded. 100% success rate guaranteed!! Well done, Mike!

I am going to have a lie-down.

Supreme Emu
 

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