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I don't know much about emus, because I focus on the pets I have or have access to. Do they have a pecking order or something? And can they live with chickens?
 
I live in Australia and am surprised to read about folks in the USA keeping Emus as pets. Most people don't here unless they are operating an Emu farm for meat birds. Then I suppose they arent pets at all, bu stock like cattle or sheep. There is one on the Warrego Highway down the road from us. My husband works in the desert in WA and he said they have a lot of trouble with them attacking and approaching people as they are quite aggressive if they dont get what they are after. Farmers over here cull them (with permits) if they get too many of them as well.
 
Hi, 13chooks!

Pardon me for a second while I explain something to the U.S. readers:

guys, if 13chooks’ husband works in the desert, he’s up north in W.A. We’ll ask 13chooks for details, but that would mean that the emus her husband sees are woodwardi.

So, 13chooks, if we asked your husband very nicely, could he get us some up-close-ish photos of the emus that the sees? That would help us with our studies here at the prestigious University of Emuology. (Money is no object. We have a wallopin’ U.N. grant.)

And . . . umm . . . I’d like a doublecheck on stories of aggressive emus. Pinch-your-sultanas aggressive? Or stomp-on-you-and-peck-your-eyes-out aggressive?

Supreme Emu
 
I think all out aggression on people from an Emu is pretty rare and mostly from tame Emu who have no fear of people. Many people take the pecking at and trying to steal shiny...stringy. .or.colorful objects as aggression. Emu who are tame become fixated on an object and will keep trying to take it...which can be very scary to non Emu people.
 
Tame Emu also have little concern for personal space...hehe. They get really really close....which can be intimidating. And if you don't have hands to investigate things...you use your beak...and people think they are "biting" them.... they also think that picking mole bugs off your skin is helpful.....
People normally only get hurt by Emu here when they try to grab them and hold them or contain them in a.corner....and even then it is defensive not.aggressive. Now some tame ones may get aggressive during breeding season and with chicks...but I don't have experience with it. A friend has one that hates her husband....but that is rare to hear also. I have only ever seen aggression.between Emu. They allow me to do whatever with them and have always been friendly. You have to understand how they think and act....
 
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Hey S.E.! That's a good question!, I have not noticed a difference in the thickness or an increase of the feathers during the colder months. Nor have I noticed a big shed of feathers in the Spring, which would be expected during the warming period if there had been a heavy winter "coat"! ES
 

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