Emu Female Aggression

[Theredstick]

I'm not new to emu raising but i thought i would get some options and ideas from some more experienced people.

I have a ~1.6 month female and i believes a 4 year old male. Ive just moved them into a new pen which i know has defentily stressed them out, so i know that probably one reason. But before that she would chase him around the pen and push him into the fences. This is nothing new my first female did the same when she was her age(i want to say this is do to hormonal changes or something similar). I've also herd other peoples experiencing the same. I also i bealve she does i more when people are around her.

They have grown up together she's been around him seances she was allowed outside, and in the pen with him sence she was 5 months or so. And no aggression on either part but around when she got her air sack she changed and just want to chase him around.

Just looking for thoughts.

 

[briefvisit]

‘but around when she got her air sack she changed’



You mean . . . when she became an adult?



In the wild, it goes like this – and we’ll consider a clutch because that’s the best data on this that we have:



chicks are neutral towards one another during their first year, and into their second. Then, around sixteen months, they stopped cheeping. They go silent.



They are still behaving neutrally at this point. Then the first adult vocalisations begin. I still get tricked over which are male and which female – until eventually a female booms (air sac).



From then on, it’s devil take the hindmost! Each young adult bird is a player in Emu World (although they don’t get serious until perhaps their fourth year). Kinship is forgotten. They’ll whoop the feathers off each other.





‘I also believe she does it more when people are around her.’



This is super interesting. I’ve long thought something like this.



Supreme Emu, Lake Muir, Western Australia