Planet Rothschildi

[chickenzoo]

Love the pictures S.E. although I'm not typing much...I am reading.

Calla....what are the temperaments of your reas..... I was thinking about getting some one day.

 

[kbgh]

S.E. just feed Feliciy the GPS device. She'll eat anyting. You can then track her when it's in her and find her roost when it ends up in her blessing.

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

Definitely lost a post or two there.

Hi, Calla. The rain thing concerns the 'jump' between last spring rain and first autumn rain. 'The Big Jump' really affects your emu life.

Supreme Emu

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

Hi ya, K.H.

I’m not sure about feeding her anything. We seem to have trouble getting stuff out of emus. Really don’t know about this one, but the reason I thought of the tissue rope is just that it is a ‘light touch’ way of doing it: the risk to the bird in any way is surely nil.

S.E.

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

First Summer Foray by Wild Birds

I’ve noticed fourteen birds already today, and it’s only early afternoon, and I’m not really looking.

A flock of six has just finished a lengthy semi-reconnaissance. I was lucky enough to hear them, and managed to watch them at length (from under the tamarillo tree). They were shy, one of them simply refusing to come close enough to graze. There was a lovely 18-month old with them (?).

Then I saw a bird manoeuvring against them. It was Felicity’s consort! Felicity and Consort were moseying onto the scene, and they displaced the six in a sort of super slow motion ‘sweep’ – then left with them.

The power play is worth noting: the intruding birds stood stock still as Felicity and Consort slowly ‘swept’ towards them. One by one, clearly according to their individual inclination to tangle with Felicity Plus, they withdrew.

This season, we’ll try, for the first time, to pay more attention to the details. Long-term readers know that we’ll see flockettes and sorties of birds on this turf in forthcoming months.

S.E.

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

Calla and E.S.,

here is the reply that got lost:

Great answer! Thank you! How interesting that you both mentioned that they remain curious while travelling. You guys really do seem to have the matter in hand.

Supreme Emu

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

The chicks have lost all traces of their stripes.
I can get to within about four feet of them, at least during the gobble-brekkie mad minute, although I have made no attempts to tame them.
But general protocol is: move quietly around the birds. Talk to them. Never ‘constrain’ them by putting them between yourself and anything else, like the house or a fence.

I hope to get a look at Felicity’s consort if they show up. It will be yet another change to the power dynamic here if Felicity has an active consort. When Eric and Mrs. Eric are here, only Eric fights. When Greedy and Boy Emu were here, Boy Emu backed Greedy up.

S.E.

 

[kbgh]

Wow, great pics S.E.

I assume that;s Eric plus his 2 chicks?

Seems like a day or 2 ago you said they hatched. Look at them now.

Going back to our earlier discussion, these guys are TAME. Remember tame is not domesticated. Tame is lack of fear and if you get to within 4 feet, they are TAME.

Kerry

 

[Calla]

Rheas looking out of car ??.........that was... when I sold adult rheas to friends last 2 years, but I have another story.....
In 1994 I was offered 6 Rhea chicks 3 months old, by my Pal, local Zoo manager offered them to me, reasonably, as he knew I already had a pair. I think they were hatched for educational purpose.
They 'packed' them in a big carboard box, tied with strings, ha ha as I traveled home only 4 miles in my estate car, I looked in mirror, if they were ok, to my amazement I saw 6 heads and necks peering out and really enjoyed the scenery, just wanted to look around, not coming out...it was such a sight, and at traffic light, people stared at my car, thinking I had dinosaurs in it...lol
I wish I had a digi. camera then.
Calla

 

[Tame Emu Guy]

Morning, Calla. I shall digest that story. You and E.S. have really intrigued me. Just as I'm learning with Eric's chicks, just to be generally around humans seems to make the birds somewhat tame.

S.E.