Pyxis' Emu Chat Thread

[aart]

She lived with them before she came to my place, so she'll just be back with her old friends

Are Emu as territorial as chickens?

 

[Pyxis]

Are Emu as territorial as chickens?

Sort of. Some are worse than others. Ciara's always been fairly easy-going about it, as far as emus go. She only chased this new girl a little, and didn't really chase her that much, and now they're getting along fine (which makes the fact that she's not a boy even more of a bummer). There wasn't really any fighting or anything. The new one immediately deferred to her and didn't try to fight at all (again, another reason we thought she was male) so that made things simpler too.

 

[Pyxis]

The DNA results just came back. He had even more girls than he thought. Of the three that he had left that might be males, two were males and one was female.

Good news though, White band, which is the one I really liked, is male. So hopefully he'll be the one that I end up with.

 

[rjohns39]

The DNA results just came back. He had even more girls than he thought. Of the three that he had left that might be males, two were males and one was female.

Good news though, White band, which is the one I really liked, is male. So hopefully he'll be the one that I end up with.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

My mom was amazed when I told her traditional trios don't work for emus. We expect pictures when thr handsome lad come home

 

[Pyxis]

The swap has happened!

And it was a bit of a fiasco. Firstly, Ciara and the female chose literally right before we were doing the swap to take a mud wallow, so the female was nice and covered in mud for us when we had to grab her to load her.

Secondly, the male got loose. All the way loose. We had to chase him down and catch him which resulted in me having to go through the woods and get covered in burrs.

So I was muddy, and full of burrs, but I now have a male and a female and I should have chicks this year from them, fingers crossed.

It wasn't White Band that they delivered. I guess he was one the son was too attached to to sell. So I got Black Band, the other male. He was, of course, the craziest one, lol. We weren't even able to actually get a band on him at the time, so really he became No Band.

But here he is:

He's got a very pretty paler blue neck. He seems very interested in the wooded section of the pen - the place he was living in before was designed more for growing out and breeding and not really a 'pets' type thing, and it didn't have foliage or especially not a wooded section. So he's enjoying picking through the leaf litter, and I'm sure he's gonna enjoy the apples that fall off the apple tree that overhangs their pen. Ciara eats them whole if they're small enough, lol.

And here's Ciara grooming after her mud wallow. No better way to cool down on a hot day:

If you notice, she's got a little nick on her neck. I don't know if that's from her and other female fighting, since hormones are setting in, or if she caught herself on a branch or something. I put a little ointment on it and it should heal up okay.

Oh, and she got lots of strawberries today, which she was very happy about.

 

[biophiliac]

I got a little bit scared when you said 'fiasco'! But it was only mud and burrs, no blood. LOL
Sebastian II is very cute.

 

[biophiliac]

So have they met yet? Or is he in quarantine?

 

[Pyxis]

So have they met yet? Or is he in quarantine?

They've met. She's standoffish just as she was with the female when she was first here. There was some aggression, but not a lot because he backs down immediately, so no real fighting. I'm hoping she'll be fine with him in a week or so, like she was with the female.

 

[biophiliac]

They've met. She's standoffish just as she was with the female when she was first here. There was some aggression, but not a lot because he backs down immediately, so no real fighting. I'm hoping she'll be fine with him in a week or so, like she was with the female.