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Dnkfarm,
On taming the chick: Patrick and the chick are a unit (at present). If you can sit close to Patrick, you can sit close to the chick – but the chick can and will become tamer because it is ‘assimilating’ you with the rest of its environment. If I may suggest:
sit as close to the two as you can. Sit still still still. Over weeks, flick little bits of Yummy-for-emus things like apple at both Patrick and the chick. Hold the yummies in your hand, and flick them with your thumb, the way you flick a marble. This minimises movement, which is the bottom line: it’s movement that frightens them more than anything. Over those weeks, decrease the distance that you flick the bits. Then, when you’re down to about six feet, try this:
lie on the ground, belly up, with a hat over your face (critters fear eye contact), and one hand, full of yummies, fully extended. Wait. Keep waiting. Eventually you will have the thrilling experience of feeling a little beak snatch a yummy from your palm.
Next stage:
sit on a low stool, all hunched up, with your yummy-filled hand extended to the chick at head-level. Sit perfectly still. Et cetera, et cetera
hmmm . . . Patrick and chick will stay together forever? I shall be a cynic, and predict that Patrick and the chick-when-adult will be at loggerheads.
Supreme Emu