Pyxis' Emu Chat Thread

[ronott1]

Very bad photo. But very rare photo. This is a wild rothschildi male. He has five newly-hatched chicks under him.

Very nice picture!

 

[aart]

This is a wild rothschildi male. He has five newly-hatched chicks under him.

You took this pic.....where you live...which is where???

 

[Pyxis]

Very bad photo. But very rare photo. This is a wild rothschildi male. He has five newly-hatched chicks under him.

Very cool! I'm hoping I get to see this with Desi in a couple years.

 

[CSAchook]

Very cool! I'm hoping I get to see this with Desi in a couple years.

I confess I find the idea of a broody emu a bit terrifying

 

[Pyxis]

Well this is a bummer, I was just doing some reading and learned that there used to be a species of emu, the King Island emu, that was half the size of the regular mainland emus. Little dwarf emus, about three feet tall. But they were driven to extinction in 1805 when people settled the island

There was another smaller emu too, the Kangaroo Island emu, but they too were driven to extinction.

 

[briefvisit]

You took this pic.....where you live...which is where???

Lake Muir, Western Australia -- Planet Rothschildi

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/planet-rothschildi.714603/

'Boy Emu' was Greedy Emu's consort, and if you Google 'Felicity Emu' at this second, you'll see, from left to right, Felicity, Number One, Greedy, Uno Chick, and Eric the Emu with chicks Alpha and Omega. The 'formal project' is long finished -- ill health on my part -- but two of Felicity's siblings were here this morning. We have over ten years of observations of the same family.

The year following our documentation of this incubation (in 'Mating Season in Australia'), Felicity got her turn, and Noddy Big Ears Emu incubated here.

Supreme Emu

 

[N F C]

Well this is a bummer, I was just doing some reading and learned that there used to be a species of emu, the King Island emu, that was half the size of the regular mainland emus. Little dwarf emus, about three feet tall. But they were driven to extinction in 1805 when people settled the island

There was another smaller emu too, the Kangaroo Island emu, but they too were driven to extinction.

Too bad about the smaller sized emus...those would have been more my size. The illustration of the average human to emu sizes is helpful!

 

[drumstick diva]

I agree, with the smaller sized ones, I bet a lot more folks would be raising them.

 

[ronott1]

Lake Muir, Western Australia -- Planet Rothschildi

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/planet-rothschildi.714603/

'Boy Emu' was Greedy Emu's consort, and if you Google 'Felicity Emu' at this second, you'll see, from left to right, Felicity, Number One, Greedy, Uno Chick, and Eric the Emu with chicks Alpha and Omega. The 'formal project' is long finished -- ill health on my part -- but two of Felicity's siblings were here this morning. We have over ten years of observations of the same family.

The year following our documentation of this incubation (in 'Mating Season in Australia'), Felicity got her turn, and Noddy Big Ears Emu incubated here.

Supreme Emu

What a nice project!

 

[briefvisit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_Island_emu#/media/File:Baudin_emus.jpg