One Mad Emu

[Kevin]

This was 10 years ago in Puerto Rico. We were down there, my wife had some work. I was out with our daughter and this Emu was just angry. I was holding my daughter, she must have been 4 or 5 years old.

It's one of my favorite pictures.

 

[turd]

Nice shot!!!

 

[bigbillyboy]

yes, he looks big time angry.....

 

[jimbo1096]

I think emus are almost always angry.
You did get a good shot

 

[Busterswoodshop]

A friend of mine used to raise those things for the oils you get from them.
He had a bunch of them.
It was a rodeo when they got loose. He was the one all the authorities called whenever one got loose somewhere.
They called him the emu wrangler . He did it into his late 80's.

 

[contender]

Great picture!

I got a critter call about one many, many years ago. Apparently the previous owner had been raising a couple of them, one got loose & wasn't capable of being caught. After a bit of discussion,, with land owners & the local LEO's,, I made the educated decision on how to capture it. Permanently.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

The person I knew that raised them , would just run at them and bear hug them. Then wrangle them into a cage. The cage was usually a horse trailer.
I saw him do it many times.
He was called a few times by the local authorities to wrangle loose emus.
He even made the local news a few times doing it.
He was the emu wrangler.

 

[Kevin]

This picture popped up on my phone. You know like 10 years ago today. That feature.

But I didn’t know they are so mean!

I remember this Emu. It was at a children’s museum. I wonder why they had it?

 

[arfmel]

Whoever was unfortunate enough to have bought it probably donated it for a tax write-off. And just to get rid of the danged thing. Lots of them were turned loose in the Texas hill country 30 years ago when the bottom dropped out of the Emu market.

 

[caryc]

Doc Pol seems to know how to handle them. When he walks up to one, he bends over at the waist. If you go at them upright, that puts them in a fighting mood.

 

[caryc]

I think emus are almost always angry.
You did get a good shot

Wouldn't you be angry if you were that ugly?

 

[Timbo23]

Think of these big birds; emus, ostriches, and cassowaries as left over dinosaurs and you won't be far wrong. Not all dinosaurs were multi-ton monsters. Some were even smaller than these emus.

 

[WAYNO]

How do we know that emu is angry? That's just how they look, all the time.

 

[arfmel]

I guess you could ask him.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Hey, as long as it doesn't sing "Liberty-Liberty-Lib-er-ty"...I wouldn't be too terribly concerned.

 

[Ride1949]

 

[Armybrat]

Great picture!

I got a critter call about one many, many years ago. Apparently the previous owner had been raising a couple of them, one got loose & wasn't capable of being caught. After a bit of discussion,, with land owners & the local LEO's,, I made the educated decision on how to capture it. Permanently.

Did it taste like chicken?

 

[Don Lovel]

A guy who lived in the Dennison Tx area said he and his grandson ran into a momma Emu with babies while turkey hunting the Tx side of Red River below the dam. The kid thought the first Emu poult he saw was a jake turkey and blasted it. Apparently that made the momma Emu fighting mad and being a dinosaur chased the kid away from the dead chick. They decided getting stomped and beaked by her was not worth it and left. He reported it to Texas Wildlife and the ranger said they are like feral hogs and good riddence, then he casually said, did you see any kangaroos? They laughed but apparently feral kangaroos are afoot in NE Texas Red River country as well.

 

[MaxMan]

A couple of people have rhem out here. You dont want to get kicked by one!

 

[caryc]

Someone in Hemet started an ostrich farm on a big piece of land. That was back when they were popular. I think they lasted about a year then all the birds were gone.

It's now a giant solar farm, fitting isn't it?

 

[Wyandot Jim]

A lot of people lost a lot of money when they decided to go into the Emu ranching.
I never have seen any Emu steaks at Korgers
Some people made money from selling Emu eggs.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

A lot of people lost a lot of money when they decided to go into the Emu ranching.
I never have seen any Emu steaks at Korgers
Some people made money from selling Emu eggs.

The money came in from the oils they produced.
It was used in quite a few different wonder drugs.

 

[contender]

Did it taste like chicken?

Actually,, it has a totally different flavor than chicken. Quite tasty in my book!

 

[caryc]

The money came in from the oils they produced.
It was used in quite a few different wonder drugs.

They don't look very oily.

 

[MaxMan]

https://preview.redd.it/bv6yuxfjl0y...p4&s=ffd79c2f523a758f9234ff2a9ab0c3c4229394e1

 

[Busterswoodshop]

They don't look very oily.

The oil came from their fat.
It was quite a process , but apparently worth the money.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I've eaten it before - it's a dark meat, more like duck than chicken. Not bad.
When I lived in Arkansas some years ago there were several people around raising them for profit (I think some of them wound up eating some $5000 birds). My buddy was a meter reader for Arkansas Power and Light, and one farm he went to had emus in an enclosure. Of course, the meter he needed to read was on the side of the barn inside the emu pen. One day when he went in to read the meter a big male bird took offense and attacked him, striking at him with its beak and trying to kick him. He had to beat it off of him with a pair of linesman's pliers, and thought at first he had seriously injured it or even killed a very expensive bird. He got out of the enclosure and directly the emu got up and shook it's head a few times and went on about doing whatever an emu does.

 

[MaxMan]

I've eaten it before - it's a dark meat, more like duck than chicken. Not bad.
When I lived in Arkansas some years ago there were several people around raising them for profit (I think some of them wound up eating some $5000 birds). My buddy was a meter reader for Arkansas Power and Light, and one farm he went to had emus in an enclosure. Of course, the meter he needed to read was on the side of the barn inside the emu pen. One day when he went in to read the meter a big male bird took offense and attacked him, striking at him with its beak and trying to kick him. He had to beat it off of him with a pair of linesman's pliers, and thought at first he had seriously injured it or even killed a very expensive bird. He got out of the enclosure and directly the emu got up and shook it's head a few times and went on about doing whatever an emu does.

And the eggs serve 6?

 

[freakindawgen]

These things are scare me just looking at them!