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Looks like a nice setup. Gee, is poo foot a problem beyond the aesthetic? Wild chicks get dirty in all sorts of ways -- then Dad takes them for a swim. SE

This is Toosh Toosh with his chicks, in the house-clearing. If you look, you can see the mud on their feet and in their tail feathers. They've been down drinking at the dam.

Put 'em in the cage, and dunk their feet in a bowl of water?

Picking up chicks is a subject that needs attention: a dropped chick can break a leg. It has happened. So, picking up a chick: you don't pick it up. You make a 'finger cage' around it. index fingers touch together above neck second fingers touch together below neck third fingers in front of...

'but it was amazing that he just got up and ran around after all that.' In the wild, the male moves immediately from incubating to parenting. If only we could weigh a wild Dad on a daily basis, we'd get some idea of how he regains his weight as he scoffs down spring flowers with his chicks. I...

Almost all fresh fruits -- not citrus/ And sultanas/currents SE

This is wonderfully rare footage: a wild emu pair dancing in very very first light. Most dancing happens at dawn. Supreme Emu

You learn to recognise the classic dances. There's twirling in a circle. There's breast-to-ground-jump-up. There's kicking-at-the-moon. Supreme Emu

It goes both ways, dmid. It's delightful to be able to help folks. And there is a variety of competencies here: what one person may not know, another may. SE You can tell the age of wild chicks by the season. This is an old photo -- this is the legendary Eric. The chicks are about 6 months?

Go, Fred Emu!!

Here's the genealogy: Eric the Emu was the original emu. Over ten years, he bought five clutches to the house-clearing. One chick of his last clutch -- nine chicks -- was Toosh Toosh. After Eric was killed, we held our breath. At that stage, we didn't even know the sexes of the seven of Eric's...

Based on entirely insufficient data -- but in our understanding that a male emu is a wonderfully efficient incubator -- I don't see why a 75% hatch-rate would be an unreasonable estimate. PS Chicks need exercise. This is the major error of nice folks. Emus are not a domestic critter. They are...

Clutches in the wild vary in number from one to ten that I have seen. But it's hard to know how many hatched versus how many might have been killed by predators. We are having some kind of disaster here at Planet Rothschildi. Toosh Toosh turned up with his second clutch. Had ten with him on the...

Go, Fred Emu!! SE

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mating-season-in-australia.641934/ This thread is unique. On page 26 is a photo of Boy Emu sitting on his eggs. It's likely unique. SE

'Has anyone had their emus successfully hatch any eggs?' Planet Rothschildi here in Western Australia -- Rothschildi territory -- has observed two hatches: Boy Emu and Noddy Big Ears. They don't need food or water. They don't poop. Emu species in Australia hatch in the wild in some very...