My breeding pair of emu are just for pets. They're extremely tame and I couldn't imagine butchering them, though I have eaten and still have some emu meat (not from my flock) in my freezer. Last time I had chicks hatch out I gave the chicks away to a couple of 4H kids raising them for the fair and to my husband's cousin.
Artemis, I don't think I'd raise emu chicks with full grown chickens. My chickens are quick to peck on things they're not familiar with and the baby emus would have no real defense of their own.
Amos, I've never shipped eggs or live birds. How about a road trip to CA to pick up a few?
DeerHunter, my emus are about the easiest of all my critters to raise. They have an automatic waterer and a metal feeder that holds 50 lbs. They're hysterical to watch when we have spring rains... they run, twist, jump and just plain seem crazed!
Hotwings... love the name BTW... my own birds are strictly pets though I don't doubt that some of my chicks could have gone for meat or other purposes. The hides can be tanned much like ostrich leather, the feathers can be used for dusters or cat toys, the fat from the emus can be rendered into emu oil for topical use or for gel caps to take like a vitamin, and of course there's the very lean meat. When frightened emus can be, well, not agressive but "anxious". When a 6' tall bird comes running full on at you it's cause for a bit of concern. A friend of mine used to raise ostrich commercially before switching to emu as he felt the emu were easier to handle.
Besides... like everything else, the chicks are SO dang cute!