Fencing for emus… is welded wire sufficient?

[briefvisit]

Hey, Kristen!

I know too little about this, but we can at least get a conversation going:



I am unsure what the ‘4” by 2” holes’ thing is about.

One: Height: at least six feet – this is a height I’ve seen quoted many times over the years.



Two: nothing sharp protruding – wire or suchlike.



Three: not a type of fencing that the sillies can get their heads – or toes – stuck in in any way. In the Australian bush, we have a stuff we call ‘ringlock.’ It’s wire fencing in squares about six by eight inches. The wire, Kristen, is sort of 'woven' to produce those squares. Emus and kangaroos get stuck in it, and die horrible deaths.


PS: Ponder this re the wires at the top -- and again, I am Wild Emu Guy.

Emoos got a wonderful talent of sort of 'surfing' over wire fences. But it gets better! They have a wonderful talent for surfing though wire fences!!

I'm not pulling your leg. They manage to drive their heads/neck and feet through gaps at the same time, and pop out miraculously on the other side. At times, it's hilarious to watch. At times, they get stuck, and die horribly.


I look forward to your reply.



SE

 

[Longacre petting zoo]

It’s 10,000 square feet, other sources say they only need 1000 sq ft. I would be interested in only keeping one, two maximum. We have 3 acres total but that’s the only area that will be fenced. I haven’t put the welded wire fence up yet as I want to be sure it will hold an emu if I do decide to get one, don’t want to do it twice. Eventually we’ll have a whole acre fenced in. It will be heavily handled and socialized. I wasn’t sure if taming it would allow me to get away with a shorter fence but I guess not thank you for all the info!

My girl was 6 months old when I got her and she shared her paddocks with my kune kunes and I had rabbits in hutches and one who was free range that she never worried about but I got her from a petting zoo when it closed and then she had all my animals she grew up with and I only had sheep fencing but she never left the property although she would step over the fences and go visit the other animals. She is about 16 now and I moved 6 years ago and she got out. I’m guessing someone was on the property and she must’ve been really frightened to leave but I got deer fencing up pretty quickly after that. I don’t have rabbits now but have millions of wild ones and she rips them to shreads if they dare go in her paddock. She decides who’s allowed and who isn’t but it’s only rats and wild rabbits and the odd chook but she just makes the chooks leave and has never hurt one. My boarders cat looks a lot like her old cat and she lets him in. They actually tag team killing the rabbits lol the cat chases them into her and she ends them. So you would need a very young one and another property unfortunately cause that many hutches in that area wouldn’t leave much nice grass for her either plus the speed they go and my girl kicks her legs out and acts like a clown if I have visitors that haven’t seen her before and the more they laugh the more she shows off so the hutches would be a danger too. Sorry to be such a downer cause they are awesome pets. Mine lies across my knee and goes to sleep lol

 

[Longacre petting zoo]

Hey, Kristen!

I know too little about this, but we can at least get a conversation going:



I am unsure what the ‘4” by 2” holes’ thing is about.

One: Height: at least six feet – this is a height I’ve seen quoted many times over the years.



Two: nothing sharp protruding – wire or suchlike.



Three: not a type of fencing that the sillies can get their heads – or toes – stuck in in any way. In the Australian bush, we have a stuff we call ‘ringlock.’ It’s wire fencing in squares about six by eight inches. The wire, Kristen, is sort of 'woven' to produce those squares. Emus and kangaroos get stuck in it, and die horrible deaths.


PS: Ponder this re the wires at the top -- and again, I am Wild Emu Guy.

Emoos got a wonderful talent of sort of 'surfing' over wire fences. But it gets better! They have a wonderful talent for surfing though wire fences!!

I'm not pulling your leg. They manage to drive their heads/neck and feet through gaps at the same time, and pop out miraculously on the other side. At times, it's hilarious to watch. At times, they get stuck, and die horribly.


I look forward to your reply.



SE

Omg I’m just imagining my girl diving through showing off but then got to how they get stuck and that must be terrible to find. I had a handreared wallaby. A bit smaller than a roo I know but picturing her stuck made me feel sick too. She was blind so mainly lived inside and was house trained to go to the toilet at one end of her big dog crate that she slept in at night cause I had 6 rotties as well and her outside yard was corregated iron but it was horrible if boy racers or something gave her a fright and I could hear her crash into the tin in a panic but I just ran to the window and said her name and she would calm down instantly and wait for me at the gate cause id always go and give her a cuddle. It sounds cruel when I write it down but it didn’t happen often and she was a happy cuddly wee girl or I wouldn’t of kept her alive. I had to learn quickly I couldn’t change the house round or drop my handbag anywhere when I walked in the door lol