say goodbye to your strawberry and leech patches, emus are grazers and lover greens and berries! Foxes are a threat to small emus, as are eagles, hawks, and large owls. Dogs are a threat to emus of all sizes.
check out: http://www.locolobo.org/ratites.html and http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/11/04/newly-discovered-dinosaur-flaunts-its-feathers.html?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_792342
emu stock in the US are all basically descended from zoo stock, since it has been illegal to ship emus out of Australia since the 1940's. Because of this, domestic emus are probably all, at least distantly related. That saying, our current breed stock has roots in West Virginia, Pennsylvania...
we will have chicks but they are pick up only, we do mail fertilized eggs nationwide... we will have fertile eggs available for shipping beginning this weekend...
young emus sometimes develop respiratory problems, often developing a bloody phlegm, which they shake their head to discharge. It can be so bad that it makes a gurgling sound from the thick, loose mucous. Kept on a good diet, they usually outgrow it without any long range effects.
emus are members of the Ratite family, which are all flightless species. Emus only have the vetigial remains of wings, which only consists of a single finger with a long fingernail.
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Here are pictures of one of our male emus. He has been sitting, fully exposed, on this nest since the last full weekend of January. So far, he has endured hurricane-strength winds a little over a week ago, eight inches of snow on Monday night with more snow on Thursday. The air temperature...
all I can tell you about my incubators is they were constructed in Europe and measure only in Celsius They do not have a name or brand or any type of model ID on the units. They were purchased in Florida.