5 Things You NEED TO KNOW About Emus
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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John and Catherine are a husband and wife team from Southern Connecticut. We grow food and flowers on the new 40 acre farm we just bought and are building from the ground up using reclaimed materials whenever possible.
Aussie here, one way to tell male from female is the females make a drumming noise. Males are silent.
Hello Aussie and welcome ! Do both genders hiss when upset? Or only the ladies?
@@OldReddingFarm both hiss, only the females drum.
Another odd fact about emus is they can’t naturally walk backwards. That is why they were chosen for the Australian coat of arms (kangaroos can’t either)
@@OldReddingFarm oh and I’ve been here a while, I was one of the ones that came over from Adler Farms 😊
@@sherrie_xX
And Australia is one of the few countries where we eat the animals on our coat of arms.
Sounds like they are farting in a Pringles can right?
John, "...because it's my video & I do what I want."...aaaand Cat edits it out. The hair IS splendorous today. Thank you for including the flash-backs: Cat cheeping at Emu embryos - one of the best episodes, ever!
Emus are so cool
Super cool
Hahaha. As an Aussie, (Ozzie not Ossie) just hearing you say Emoo so many times just grates on the merves. 😂😂
Also so wrird seeing people on the US keeping them as pets. Hardly anyone here keeps them as pets. But we love seeing them in the wild.
Enjoy your EMOOS.
THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT FUN FACTS ABOUT YOUR DINOSAURS
Glad you like them!
Cute dino birds 🦖💕
Appreciate the mini existential crisis calculating your age and knowing an emu can be with you when you reach your 60's.
Hah yah I have mini crisis basically daily. Always fun to have them on camera 😉
LOVE this video. We hatched ducks when our girls were young, and we graduated to emu - two eggs from eBay in 2016. One of the two hatched, and we used a daughter’s long yoga mat for the running pad. Couldn’t keep it, and it was flown to a new owner. Fun video. By the way, excellent advice on breeders. With our success in 2016, we tried again in 2017 - again on eBay - and those two ended up providing excellent (and EXPENSIVE) four-person omelettes. THANK YOU
This is a perfect example of the entitlement of some people. Even the fact eBay sells eggs is disgusting. Emus are wild animals and I see you are passing your entitlement on to your kids.
As an Australian we love seeing emus in the wild and knowing how emus live naturally seeing how uneducated fools treat one of our national animals is annoying to say the least.
Thanks for all that...the emu chicks before hatching were reacting to your wife excitement...so cute!
I do think they can hear through the shell as they're developing
@@OldReddingFarmYup, they can and do! This is how they (and many other birds) get to know who parents are and when to hatch.
Love ❤ the emus!
Lol at your pronunciation John. As an Aussie I don’t mind the way you say it. It was nice taking a trip down memory lane with their little lives thus far. I really enjoyed this video and I think you pointed out some great things to consider before investing in one.
Did I know you were an Aussie? I think I forgot that. Some of your countryfolk are VERY bothered by ee-moo
@@OldReddingFarm yep you forgot. I think it rather cute. Either way they will just have to live with it hehe.
Omg this brought tears to my eyes
Thanks for the video! Funny and informative. We’ve been thinking of getting these and appreciate an insiders perspective and advice.
Hi new to watching your channel, enjoyed this, but one thing I think you didn’t mention is there diet. I have heard that they can only eat rattight food. And some fruits like grapes ( green mainly)
You love your Emus. Love your videos!
Glad you like them!
I used to incubate my emu eggs. Then I found out they do better their selves. And they take care them . We live in Missouri.
You 'Amerr eye cans' can pronounce things however you want - as long as you afford us Aussies the same courtesy.
Please dont exploit or violate their bodies. Love them and give them Sanctuary.
Im trying to look for an egg incubator large enough for a emu egg. Any suggestions? I appreciate it!
We use the GQF Sportsman 1502. It's a really expensive high end model but it does a great job and has a ton of room. If you're just doing one, you could probably get away with an NR360, and some people sell a lid extension kit so that it sits a little higher up.
Every English speaking person called them Emus except for Americans. Eemoo 😂
I even admitted it, dumb american here!
Us Canadians also mispronounce it too. 😂
Do you guys sell Emu eggs? Or babies you’ve hatched? I’ve always wanted to raise a pair, and would love to hatch them from home.
Australian here . EEEmuuuus funny 🤣
Thank you for the nice video.
Do you know where I can buy some emus. I live near melbourne
We got our eggs off of Facebook. Melbourne Australia ? I didn't know Australia allowed people to keep emus . Maybe check that first !
Great video, love those Emus
Thank you so much!!!!
Glad it helped!
Um weather, whats TOO cold. Im.in Alaska and just starting to.look into maybe getting a couple Emu.
-10°C is the minimum they can tolerate short term, according to a farm that raises them nearby. So you'll need a heated coop of shorts for the colder part of winter, definitely... Can be just a few degrees over freezing.
Emus
I did great just letting mine he hatched out nine of them. He took good care of them you just don't want to try to touch a baby he is very protective he will go after you with claws out. I have never heard anybody pronounce emu's like you. so we're not dumb Americans it's just it's just you.
The male hatched them?
HAHA. in Italy, we call them AYE-moo
How long should I keep my emu chicks in a brooder box
But what do you raise them *for* ??
I know it's not meat, because y'all said you don't do that. The alpacas are for fiber, definitely not these fellas. Non-mammal, so no emu-milk lattes. I guess the mob are just pets and you guys are being pet breeders? That's cool. It just seems like keeping and breeding farm animals is generally about more than just having animals to keep and breed.
Also, odd question maybe, but do people eat the unfertilized eggs like with chickens? I know it wouldn't be year-round, but it would be something.
We keep them for part fun part hoping we'd be able to sell the eggs some day. People definitely do eat the eggs apparently one emu egg is about the same as a dozen chicken eggs
@@OldReddingFarm ,
Cool. Thanks for the reply.
@OldRe 😮😮😮😮😮😮wow
Do emu's make good hen guardians?
Loved Cat’s reaction to the hatching eggs!
That year was an emotional rollercoaster
I have a question, probably bad one.I think they're so cute.Are they raised only for pets?Are there other reasons?Do you eat them?Good protectors? Thank you.
I'm an Aussie, and they are wild animals. They should be left in the wild.
@@biancapierce639every domesticated animal used to be wild. Your either a vegetarian or a hypocrite. Not sure whats worse.
They are raised either as pets or for meat
Got into breeders market 2pairs, in 90's (Clinton era) had some fun until market crashed with new coops never getting off ground. One breeder pair produced 40+ eggs, 97 % "fertility" 40% survival rate chicks. Other 0 fertility 30 egg layer. Received 35k offer for hen, but declined but gambled market would go up. Everthing went to slaughter. Very good lean red meat and delicacy , fat rendered for oil which very expensive and healing properties. Good luck...
wow that's very interesting. quite the rollercoaster.
@OldReddingFarm yeah, if I had property or could afford it now absolutely I would have a pair or two. You could grab a handful of soft feathers @breast are make some flies for trout. Fatten up chicks have meat processed for you, sell for $15 or $20 a pound. Find a renderer for your fat (15-20lbs.) Adult. Sell it $12-$20 Oz.
I’m glad you showed the audience how to pronounce it. I’ve noticed that most vids on here about emu weirdly are made by American’s and every time I hear them say E-moo it kinda irritates me. I’m sure the other Aussies can relate. Makes me want to start calling buffalo, B-loos lol
You have my full and undivided support to call buffalo b-loos 😂
@@OldReddingFarm 😆
I am American and I have only ever heard it pronounced E-mew… I had no idea other Americans pronounced it E-moo!
Walmart has a Rubbermaid shelf liner and you can wash it. I have it on top of my makeshift island to prevent my bowls from slipping while mixing in my bowls then I go and throw it in the wash when I’m done and then I hang dry
Bath mats.. washable, non skid, cushioned
E-Moo from the ole US of A
Very informative…. Males of most species are SILENT… aren’t we?!?😮😊
What do they eat?
We buy emu food from Mazuri
The fact that they won a war tells me everything i need to know about them
I love to eat them, I’m not sure I can now!! You are letting it 😭
Hi
Hi Barb!
Emu eggs
Thanks for the video, but please pronounce the word Emu correctly. Aussies pronounce it eem-you, not emoo! We also rarely keep them as pets.
Australians and Americans pronounce lots of words differently from each other :)
You sure it wasn't 2027?😅. Anyways. Nice informative video. Thank you
Thank you!!
So I'm guessing that having Frisbees in one's ears is an act of pure genius?
no, probably not. but writing stupid comments on the internet definitely is. Thanks for watchin!
I want to raise emus
I think they would be such fun pets.
@stompy15056 raise and fatten them up like you would cattle. Keep couple for pets. Delicious red meat very lean. Take or sell fat when slaughter for oil.
One thing that makes me sad as an Aussie is seeing animals being farmed and kept in the USA when we can’t even have them here were they are native. But good vid.
I agree. They should be kept in the wild and not farmed in the US.
You guys can't keep emus as pets over there?!
So not any actual information
As an Australian hearing you cant even pronounce the name correctly and the fact you think emus are pets gives me doubt you know anything about emus.
the fact that I mentioned 30 seconds into the video that i would be pronouncing the name incorrectly, gives me doubt of your overall intelligence. Thanks for watching!
How dare you assume gender 😂
Wow, you really screwed up your ears, didn’t you?
Why do you feel the need to be an asshole? Just curious.
It's pronounced eem-yoo not ee-moo.
You could not have possibly watched more than 45 seconds of this video, where I clearly state that, and that I'm aware of that, and why I am saying it the way I am. Thanks for your comment though!
@@OldReddingFarm Correct, I bounced as soon as you lead with the mispronunciation. Maybe you should have corrected yourself immediately after your intentional error if you didn't want people to understandably jump to the wrong conclusion that you lack basic knowledge.
@@relacser he literally states the correct pronunciation at 28 seconds. And yes I’m an Australian and yes it frustrates me, But, like he says, his pronunciation makes him feel comfortable.
@@sherrie_xX soon as I hear ignorance (whether wilful or otherwise)I leave, I'm a bit funny like that I guess.
Wow… I thought Aussies were a lot more laid-back than that. I’m not turned off by Australians’ weird accent -they butcher words all the time! Tomayto , tomauto.
As an Aussie I can't watch this video. First they are not called Emooo. You know the correct way to say their name but you are too arrogant to do that. Secondly, they are wild animals and should not be farmed in the US.
Everything was a wild animal at some point. Are you a vegetarian or a hypocrite? I'm sure there are 2+ dozen words you don't pronounce right. Let me guess, for you its not arrogance.
Thank you Kathleen we appreciate you
How about how to pronounce them? If they could speak, they would tell you that they are expat Aussies and that is not how you pronounce "emu". It is offensive to all Australians - like running fingernail down a blackboard. I stopped watching at 0.23.
Proud of you
Go find your safe space and cry into your half soy, half caf, quad shot, light whip, triple caramel, extra hot, latte with rainbow sprinkles!!!
That is not how we say emu mate we say emu because that's how you say emu and yes i happen to be a Aussie
Shocking.
this was awesome. Been thinking of getting Emu's for while. In Townsville Tropical North Qld, we also have Wild ones in the bush near us.
The word probably came from the Portuguese name for the Cassowary, "ema", which means both the Aussies and Americans have it wrong (though the Aussies actually get it even more wrong by saying it as "ee-myuu" instead of "ee-mu".
That is an etymological fallacy. A word is pronounced "correctly" based on how it is currently pronounced in English.
For example, all the KN- words in English, like knife, knight, knot, come from Germanic languages where the k was actually pronounced. Does that mean we are saying the *English* word incorrectly if we don't say it like a German or Dane did centuries ago? Of course not.
The origin of a word into a language has little to say about the "correct" pronunciation once it gets there, and pronunciation within English is fluid over time and geography. Both pronunciation and definition in English are descriptive rather than prescriptive, unlike many other languages.
I'm an American (Texan), and I've always said Eeemyoo. Eeemooo sounds weird to me. And no, I'm not a farmer or breeder of them or anything else, so it's not like it's specialist knowledge or anything.