Emu sexing HELP PLEASE!!

[20chickenz123]

Hey I’ve got a question. When do the emus fully develop their air sac. Because I’ve read somewhere that both male/females have a grunting sound until a certain age. When can I distinguish if it’s male/female??
(It is about 1year and 2months old) please help

 

[The Phantom]

@Pyxis

 

[20chickenz123]

@Pyxis

Same here bro

 

[briefvisit]

Cross-posted from 'Emu Questions: Sorry I Ask So Many':

'I am now hearing NOISES from my emus.'

I enjoy answering this question:

all emus make almost all emu noises. At times, they burp, fart, hiss, and grunt (and cheep).

And I get to tease non-wild-emu observers because some of the identifying comes from context, like the conversations of breeding-pairs, or the unique inter-territorial vocalisations of a female commanding a territory.

So, in their second year, emooz shift from baby noises to adult noises. But to definitively identify an individual as one sex or the other can take a while. I have been in error months at a time on several occasions.

But ultimately one thing gives it away:

only the female has the vocal sac. And you can see its distension during 'foomphs.' (And feel it under your hand if you are patting her while it is inflated.) And the foomphs happens in strings. (Limpychick, for example, although as yet a real wooos of a female, manages the longest strings of early-a.m. happy-emu-female foomphs I've ever heard.)

Thus the male vocalisations -- 'guurks' -- are not definitive. A female can gurk. She just usually won't. But, certainly at certain times of year, like the male of a breeding-pair in autumn, the males will go on a guurk rampage, and once you've recognised this, you'll never be confused again.

SE

 

[20chickenz123]

Thanks!