How do I get a female Emu to leave the horse alone? LOL

[centrarchid]

Female emu may be imprinted on horse. If so she may not be signalling male emu a potential mate or may even threaten him. If so, the male is going to have a hard time developing an interest in an unreceptive female that must cooperate with him in order for birds and bees to work properly.

 

[Pidgey104]

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Yea and the werid thing is The horse and the emus are seperated in diffferent pens. Sport the horse does not like it when the female bothers him he has pull so many of her feathers off. He raeches over the fence and gets ahold of her on the back. I just wish there was a way taht I can seperated them farther

 

[Albanydog]

Update please....
Just wondering what the end result was, did they mate or do they still hate each other? Did the new eggs hatch?

 

[Pidgey104]

Update please....
Just wondering what the end result was, did they mate or do they still hate each other? Did the new eggs hatch?

The pair hatched out 8 babys this year. Since them I have had to seperated them into two different pastures. I sold most of the babys except two which he is still traking care of. The male is real mean to the female emu. Plus he like to chase the geese which the female gets along great with them. He has gotten very mean with us also. but we don't let it scare us. When we walk out into his pen he'll stand up real tall and run at us. we just stand our ground and throw our hands up in the air and that keeps him back.

 

[Albanydog]

The pair hatched out 8 babys this year. Since them I have had to seperated them into two different pastures. I sold most of the babys except two which he is still traking care of. The male is real mean to the female emu. Plus he like to chase the geese which the female gets along great with them. He has gotten very mean with us also. but we don't let it scare us. When we walk out into his pen he'll stand up real tall and run at us. we just stand our ground and throw our hands up in the air and that keeps him back.

Our Emu, Emily, has been acting the same way the last few months only she keeps nipping the back of your arm too. She is our only emu, she is about 2 1/2 now. She used to live in the main chicken run but when she started tossing chicks in the air she had to move to the pasture, there is more room there anyway. She gets along with everyone, goats, geese, llamas, adult chickens and pigs but she hates cows! We fostered a horse and a mule for a week and poor Emily freaked out, thought she was going to give herself a heart attack with all the panting and pacing and we had to move her for a few days. Since she has been acting a little aggressive we figure it is because she is of breeding age and a little cranky during mating season. Hoping she calms down but we are looking for her a new home before she hurts someone

Thanks for the update, glad you got some chicks, they apparently got along for a little bit! lol

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

Pidgey, you say they hatched eight chicks this year. I am interested – that is, a normal incubation? How many eggs did the male sit on?

Eight chicks is a great score. It reflects well on the environment you’ve provided. I hope to learn enough to make guesstimations about the chances of survival each chick has. The semi-wild male who sat here this season left the nest with only five of a possible nine.

Supreme Emu

 

[Pidgey104]

Pidgey, you say they hatched eight chicks this year. I am interested – that is, a normal incubation? How many eggs did the male sit on?

Eight chicks is a great score. It reflects well on the environment you’ve provided. I hope to learn enough to make guesstimations about the chances of survival each chick has. The semi-wild male who sat here this season left the nest with only five of a possible nine.

Supreme Emu

I sold all but two I let him care for them. He was sitting on around 10 eggs. Two were not fertile. They hatched days apart from ea other like two a week. So she must have been still laying eggs beside him as he was sitting.

 

[drumstick diva]

I think the horse pulling her feathers out considered it a romantic gesture - like the olden days when boys dipped a girls pigtails in the inkwell. Did they ever really do that?