Emu Questions

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

There are no guarantees that they won't fight when breeding season nears.. so the best you can do is play it by ear and have other pens available to move birds to that are being abused by their "flock mates"

in the wild a female will breed with more than one male.. but once a male has bred a female and she has laid eggs for him.. he will sit the nest and not pursue other females.. so most people will have multiple males available for each female so she can choose her mate.. BUT that's also when the problems start since not all emu will get along all the time.. they can be raised together and be in the same pasture then one day out of the blue fighting starts.. and if you're not quick enough separating the birds you may end up with one or more seriously injured or even dead...

for example.. I had two males (Paco and Dorian) with a female (Rose).. they had all hatched around the same date and were raised together with no issues during the first year and a half of their lives.. then one day Paco decided to bail (I didn't witness them harassing him.. but it could have happened).. either way he went over several six foot tall fences to be with the juvis and get away from his 'flock mates".. a few weeks later Rose and Dorian took turns attacking each other.. this went on for several months with me separating them for a few days.. once they were apart they would try to get back together.. then getting along for several days and then fighting again... with one of the two being chased and attacked (it varied as to who was doing the attacking and chasing).. .. after awhile of them both pacing fences wanting to be in the same pen I relented and put them back together.. now they have paired off with Dorian attempting to impress Rose with his nest building skills.. and Paco is still content to be with the juvenile birds..
Had I left them all together I would have ended up with two wounded birds and possibly the death of one or both of my males..

so there is no guarantee that either males or females will get along 365 days of the year...

I figured they would have little scuffles every now and then and imagiened with there size it would be fairly easy one to injure another. I just wanted to make sure that under most circumstances they will get along.

 

[ES Emus]

one thing you will learn, with emus, there are no hard and fast rules...

 

[yinepu]

one thing you will learn, with emus, there are no hard and fast rules...

Exactly.. things with them can change from day to day or even hour to hour..