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Did you know you can get Emu eggs in the mail?!? LOL!

Cheryl Marchek AKA JM

Cheryl Marchek AKA JM

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OMG I am having so much fun at the new property! I know I've not been online here much~ thats mostly because my radio broadband connection flakes out at night when I used to get online. I'm still around though!

This new property is GREAT! another reason I've not been around is how much work it is! I've lost 20 pounds already! And not ONE inch off my waist where I would have liked to have lost it.....oh no.....I've litterally worked my BUTT OFF! LOL! I've gone from Pear shaped to Pototo shaped.....I'm pretty sure thats NOT an improvement...........LOL!

I've not gotten any new animals yet~ still researching what to get and how to care for stuff.....

But guess what I just found?
On EBAY naturally!

I can buy hatching chicken eggs and use the incubators I already own for the reptiles during the off season. Thats cool......
I can also buy Turkey eggs~ Cooler
200 quail eggs (CHEAP) ~ Very cool......sounds like fun AND Good Eats!
Goose eggs~ well thats neat

And get this~ FERTILE EMU eggs for hatching! LOL!
I don't want an EMU.......but I may have to buy those eggs anyway........I REALLY WANT TO HATCH AN EMU!! LOL! I've not bid on them yet.....but I'm itching too!

Scotts gonna be mad when he gets home! Maybe I should wait to tell him till the eggs start hatching (what does one do with 200 baby quail and 2 baby emu? Maybe I should find out before I buy the eggs.......)
 
Oooooh.......try looking thru Eggbid.com, lol. Kinda the off season for eggs, but you can get some COOL stuff on there. I see they have a breeding pair of adult Emu on there now, plus a baby. ;)

http://www.eggbid.com/
 
Depending on what you're looking for Steve, the prices seem kind of high from that site. If you're looking for peafowl eggs, I bet I can get ya some for a LOT less this spring. ;)
 
Yes. Peafowl. Looking for India Blue. I'd love to have a few running around back here. :rofl:
 
Remind me in the spring, Steve....I don't raise them myself anymore, I just don't have time for everything I want....but I have several friends who do, and I'm sure I could get ya a good deal on some eggs. :)
 
Me too!
Well~ let me see where I am this spring actually~ I have million things to do. But I've always wanted peafowl!

I did just order our very first "Livestock"~ 5 slate blue turkey eggs! I'm planning to buy some Royal Fans~ some geese~ and some chicken eggs soon too. I know hatching the eggs on my own may not be successful~ but it sounds like fun so I'm going to try that first~ then if I fail I can always order chicks this spring!
 
Sure thing Cheryl, let me know in the spring. Here in Iowa (land of the frozen) they usually don't start laying real steady until at least May.

I have a blue slate turkey tom running around the farm now, I absolutely love him. Not su re what you mean by Royal Fans...I've kept Royal Palm turkeys over the years, and adore them as well. We just lost our old Palm tom, Walter, this past spring...he was a cool bird.

If the eggs you get are fertile, turkey eggs are really one of the simpler eggs to hatch. Just make sure you up the humidity the last few days of incubation, I've found this makes a big difference.

And there's NOTHING more fun than baby geese. ;)
 
mmm...I think your right~ Royal Palm~ oops! The pretty heritage breed~ white with the blue "fan" on the tail. The lady I bought the blue slates from has Royal Palms laying now~ she is waiting to start selling the eggs until she insure fertility.

I'm really looking forward to it. I'm having a ton of fun already and the only livestock I actually own are still my snakes and the rodents. I've been working on the rodent shed and I'm pretty sure I can turn it into a mighty fine Mouse House before Christmas ~I need dry days to work~ but I'm so greatful for any rain we get I don't mind the progress being slow! It's supposed to rain today so I'm going to truck out all the Christmas decorations and do up the house today. Maybe cruise online a bit more to figure out which eggs I want next. I want to buy tons and get busy~ but I'm already VERY BUSY and I very much do not want to be idiot we've all heard of that got too many animals and could not care for them all. So I have to pace myself some.
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
mmm...I think your right~ Royal Palm~ oops! The pretty heritage breed~ white with the blue "fan" on the tail. The lady I bought the blue slates from has Royal Palms laying now~ she is waiting to start selling the eggs until she insure fertility.

I'm really looking forward to it. I'm having a ton of fun already and the only livestock I actually own are still my snakes and the rodents. I've been working on the rodent shed and I'm pretty sure I can turn it into a mighty fine Mouse House before Christmas ~I need dry days to work~ but I'm so greatful for any rain we get I don't mind the progress being slow! It's supposed to rain today so I'm going to truck out all the Christmas decorations and do up the house today. Maybe cruise online a bit more to figure out which eggs I want next. I want to buy tons and get busy~ but I'm already VERY BUSY and I very much do not want to be idiot we've all heard of that got too many animals and could not care for them all. So I have to pace myself some.
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But your getting critters you can eat , so no one would ever know if you got overloaded.
 
BryonsBoas said:
But your getting critters you can eat , so no one would ever know if you got overloaded.
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Yeah~ I thought of that......
Thats why I've not actually bought the emu egg yet......
Not sure I'd be willing to eat an emu~ and I don't really want an emu
I just want to HATCH an emu!
LOL
 
We had a "pet" Emu for awhile.....his name was Bart. Apparently, it's NOT a good idea to teach emus to eat from your hand, because then they think there is ALWAYS food in your hand, and it really freaking hurts when they bite you. He was a lot of fun until then.

Incidentally......emu actually tastes a lot like beef, believe it or not. :eek:
 
Cat_72 said:
We had a "pet" Emu for awhile.....his name was Bart. Apparently, it's NOT a good idea to teach emus to eat from your hand, because then they think there is ALWAYS food in your hand, and it really freaking hurts when they bite you. He was a lot of fun until then.

Incidentally......emu actually tastes a lot like beef, believe it or not. :eek:
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Does this mean you ended up eating Bart? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
 
LOL Cat the thought of a roast Emu on the table !!!

Cheryl I used to raise a number of different birds, Bob whites are pretty cool and pretty easy to hatch. Ornamental Pheasant are fun and very nice looking and some are so tame they follow you around like puppies.. But the coolest birds were Canada Geese they think your mom lol and do what you do. Randy
 
SPJ said:
Does this mean you ended up eating Bart? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Um........yep. I actually felt bad about it, until I tasted him. LOL.

That's one of the reasons we don't have any cattle or such on our farm, I make big pets out of them, and refuse to eat them. As a rule, once something has a name here, it cannot be sold or eaten. That did lead to a huge problem when I did raise rabbits.... :eek:

Randy is absolutely right about the baby Canada geese....ever see that movie "Fly Away Home"? It's just like that, they really do adopt you as their mommy. I've had ducks that were almost as tame, and even a few chickens, but none to the same extent as the geese. Baby peafowl can be a lot of fun too....I used to have one that we raised in the house from the time he came out of the incubator til he was several weeks old, and he followed me and my daughter everywhere. He loved to sit on your shoulder (my daughter taught him that one) which was cute when he was little, not so much when he got bigger (or pooped down your back :ack2: ).

And LOL, what a picture, a roast emu on the table....I'd have to get a bigger table!!! But actually, the only real meat on an emu (or ostrich, we've eaten them too, but they never were pets lol) is on the legs, and a bit on the wings. But those are some hellish big drumsticks. ;)

I think geese and peafowl are my favorite to raise....call ducks were a fun one too, though. They are noisy little boogers, though..I enjoyed listening to them, but they drove my other half crazy. But then, I liked my guineas too, lol.
 
LOL Cat ""That's one of the reasons we don't have any cattle or such on our farm, I make big pets out of them, and refuse to eat them. As a rule, once something has a name here, it cannot be sold or eaten. That did lead to a huge problem when I did raise rabbits.... ""

Just name them after someone who really pisses you off!! I once knew a Pig named Nixon his owners said he was right tasty !! Having grown up on a ranch moo moos that I once knew on the table wasn't a big deal but I have to agree on the rabbit thing I'd have to be some kind of hungry before eating one...Randy
 
That is a great website about he peafowl, though if anyone knows where to get them cheaper, I'd be interested in getting an update in the egg laying season too. My aunt and uncle are building a huge ranch up here and I'd love to surprise them with some baby peafowl, preferably pied and white
 
Hmmmm.....I know a couple of folks that have the whites, but I'm not thinking anyone I know has the pieds.
 
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