Advice, please:
I have a healthy six-month-old wild chick roaming about here at my farmhouse in Western Australia (Planet Rothschildi). It was with its dad and its one other sibling until just three days ago. Then it turned up alone.
It’s important to not have too many tame emus here in the long run – they fight unendingly. This chick has shared its dad’s ration for the three months it’s been here.
My question is: do I cut this chick some slack because it’s so young, and isn’t ready to go it alone?
Or . . . is it able to fend for itself (certainly seems that way), and should not be further ‘imprinted’ here by being fed?
Guys, I’m as vulnerable to a chick’s cuteness as the next bird-lover; but the ‘dynamic’ here is a long-term one, and the chick will be better off to be ‘cut loose’ as soon as it can fend for itself.
Does anyone have any knowledge about when a chick is usually ‘self-sufficient’?
Supreme Emu
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