• In case most of you have not noticed, I made changes to the donation amounts as well as the durations for all of the paid membership levels. Things are winding down here, and this seems to be the most prudent way to deal with the "end of life" period of this site.

    Contributor level members - $10 per 30 days
    Sponsors - Eliminated
    Benefactor level members - $25 per 30 days
    Endowment level members - $50 per 30 days

    Account Upgrades Page
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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

Actually Nora~ they grow even faster than you think. According to the books I've been reading heritage breeds are ready for "freezer camp" at around 12 weeks while the Cornish Cross is camp ready at just 7 or 8 weeks. The Cornish Cross are what we see in the grocery stores~ they were developed JUST to be meat chickens......I've seen them called "Frankenstien chickens" and "race car chickens".

I may get some cornish cross at some point~ but I'm still working on having the space to care for my heritage birds~ once I have my act together though.....maybe I'll try a race car chicken. I can't beleive how fast "normal" chickens grow~ can you imagine from hatch to the freezer size in 7 weeks! I gotta see that sometime!
 
i remember my dad mentioning something about 12 weeks.. but i couldnt remember what it was cuz i wasnt payin attention to what he was talking about as usual lol but know we butchered the chickens right at 20 weeks and they were perfect.

I hope we get more this spring, the hand raised chicken is definately 20 times better than the store bought meat. talk about freshness.
 
There is no doubt in my mind now. The emu egg moves. My sister saw it moving last night. This morning you can hold the egg and FEEL it moving. Day 48..........
Either it's alive
OR
It's gone rotten and is full of gas getting ready to expload like a small bomb..........apparently poultry eggs can do that.........I think I'll refrain from picking it up again just in case...........

what am I going to do if it hatches?
I never really thought it was alive until it moved.......and now I'm just not sure which to hope for......a baby emu or a giant green exploding egg...........
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
what am I going to do if it hatches?
I never really thought it was alive until it moved.......and now I'm just not sure which to hope for......a baby emu or a giant green exploding egg...........
Click to expand...


Tell the boys to add an extension on to that chicken coop! EMU sized :)

i cant WAIT!!!!! :thumbsup: Emu! Emu! Emu! :rofl:
 
lol i dont think you'd want an exploding egg on your hands... the smell is god aweful and is worse than skunk spray, snake poo, regurge, and a dead rotting animal carcass put together...IMHO.
 
SOMETHING is trying to get out of that emu egg
What do you want to bet it's an emu?

emu1.jpg

Feb 6, 2008~ 4:40pm
 
Well, maybe it's a misplaced platypus.

Sounds like a band, Misplaced Platypus.

Wonder what kind of sound they'd have?
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
SOMETHING is trying to get out of that emu egg
What do you want to bet it's an emu?

emu1.jpg

Feb 6, 2008~ 4:40pm
Click to expand...

You may have to build a bigger hen house.
:D
 
If I name it~ eating it will be more difficult later.
Unless I name it "turkey" and we have it for Thanksgiving.
Will says we should name it "Dog" and teach it to be a livestock gaurdian for the chickens......but I think that will cause even more trouble if we wind up eating "dog" for Christmas Dinner next year..................

But~ it's still not out of that egg........
no point in counting my emu before they are hatched
 
aww what a cute baby!

see, this is proof why babies..ahem baby animals, are so cute when they're little but turn out to be ugly monstrosities when their adults..hehe humans are a different story.
 
Is it wrong that those pictures make me broody :eek: I wonder where we could fit an emu house.. :D
 
Oh my.. that is so dang cute!!!

You better send me the feathers before you eat that!!! :p

And I think emu's are pretty as adults too.. SO THERE ha ha ha
 
nora said:
aww what a cute baby!

see, this is proof why babies..ahem baby animals, are so cute when they're little but turn out to be ugly monstrosities when their adults..hehe humans are a different story.
Click to expand...

Your just hoping to convince me it is too cute to eat...........

Actually~ We are having family discussions now. They want to keep it as a pet. I am NOT keeping another animal without a job unless the entire family wants it as a PET and kicks in for the care and socialization. We are negotiating now..............
it's probably a pet
it is awfully cute
And it hops to Scott and Will when the whistle to it.......
 
It's an adorable baby Cheryl, congrats!!! How exciting!!

Emus can and do become very tame if raised right, just like big legged feathered dogs, almost. But do remember, one kick from an adult Emu who is pissed off can do some pretty good damage. Once they hit maturity, they CAN get kind of testy at times, and actually possessive of "their" favorite human(s).

And for those voting for eating him, i said tEsty, not tAsty.....though come to think of it, they DO make some darn good jerky. Heh.
 
Back
Top