Looking for emu gender and enclosure info

[Calla]

Hi mamaluvschick
My young Emu and Rhea chicks get growers pellets mixed with scots oats ad-lib and 2 x daily a bowl of veggies, leek, cabbage, broccoli, etc..sliced boiled eggs and apples, carrots all finley minced....all containers put on a wall, some white bread for a treat.

From about 2-3 months on gradually mix in some Mixed Flakes, ad-lib, 100% natural product,( micronized which consists on flaked maize, split green peas, flaked barely and many other ingredience like vitamins etc.

Adults...Towards laying season, I omit growers pellets and add layers pellets instead. If this is not good for them ?? 3 Rheas layed 145 eggs last season, all under 2 years old, just on this and grass.

My 1st Emu laid 25 eggs at 18 months and 35 eggs last winter. Now there is not a lot of grass about, all the Emus ( 6 ) get my home grown veggies, bowl of chopped spinach, 3 types, broccoli, tops of Jerusalem artichokes, runnerbean leaves, leek, comfrey leaves,curly kale, green cabbage and loads of angelica greens which came back this year like a big green carpet, selfseeded from just 1 plant from last year and fed on this since Feb. and still now...also 4 types of chopped mint plants, mixed in, they love it all....curiously the only veggie they leave is finely sliced carrots...it's not green lol no fools lol but the Rheas love them and so do the Turkey pair, ...she laid 172 in her 1st year.

NEVER FEED THEM ON MIXED CORN, as it will not digest, just comes out as it was eaten...maybe ok, if you want a corn field next year lol

Good luck,

Calla

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

35 eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a great datum! It surely says something about 'sequential polyandry.' A female that can lay thirty-five eggs can provide eggs for three males to incubate!

(I'll go talk to Greedy.)

Supreme Emu

 

[Calla]

Good thinking Supreme Emu, ha
If I would let Seppi sit on eggs and was broody that is and Rosie laying like mad, then Eggs would not be fertile... ha ha also she may not even lay anymore, so where are my Eggs ??

So I stick to my system, it works very well, even when they are only in a very small area, about 100 x 50 ft, where they were since Babies and are very happy there.

Have never known a Broody hen (Bantam) sit and lay same time, have you ?
Calla

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

Calla,

please feel free to laugh: I know nothing about birds. Not a thing.

Supreme Emu

 

[chickenzoo]

I've always used mediated.chick feed. I thought I read Emu can get coccidia too. Mine eat a mix of the all stock...layer...some Emu pellets added in....wild bird seeds....mustard greens or any green veggies they like. .some dog food and.what over they eat free ranging. I use to buy Emu.chow..buty Emu decided what everyone else.was eating must be better....lol. I had to make special feeders to keep my diverse animals out of it.

 

[Calla]

You know nothing ?? not much !!! carry on laughing lol
I love breeding..even Emus.
Calla

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

What has been fun and fascinating, Calla, is the beautiful ‘overlap’ that goes on here. I searched and searched and searched on the Net for anyone who both loved emus and didn’t want to sell little bits of them to me in plastic bags. Then, when I finally found BYC, I recall thinking, ‘Wait a minute . . . these guys have never seen an emu in the wild!’ Well, emu in the wild is the only sort of emu I got. So, the ‘overlap’ is where the fun has been. I saw an emu egg in 1965. The next one I saw was under Boy Emu last winter.
Etc. etc. etc.



I think that, for me, the two most interesting things are the overall pattern of their movements/power plays, and ('cause it relates to our species) the evolutionary oddity of the males parenting/the 'female-centricity' of the species.

S.E.