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[Mo1]

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Sorry, Gavin.. (I knew I should have double-checked!)

Is it true there is a lot of EMU ranches in Texas?

Escaped Emu Mistaken for Naked Man

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We are supposed to get dumped on (rain showers) later today as a cold front moves through and be in the low 80's the rest of the weekend... suuuwweeet.

[ValerieUSA]

Yep, once when driving through the country near Crawford we saw a huge emu next to a fence watching cars go by and it surprised Gabe and me so much that it took us a few minutes to realize what it was - then it ran off very fast.
Emus and ostriches were popular in Washington, too... in the county where I lived a giant male ostrich kicked an elderly man to death in his pen.

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Whats the difference between an Emu and an Ostrich anyway?

[ValerieUSA]

How desperate will some single women get?

"We're still looking for either a naked man with huge eyes or an emu," ...

[ValerieUSA]

Ratites ("RAT-tights") are a family of flightless birds with small wings and flat breastbones. Ostrich, emu ("E-mew") and rhea ("REE-ah") are members of this family. Ostrich is native to Africa; emu, to Australia; and rhea, to South America -- particularly the grasslands of Argentina.

When fully grown, ostriches -- the largest birds in the world -- stand about seven to eight-feet tall and can weigh 300 to 400 pounds; emu are about six feet tall and weigh 125 to 140 pounds. Adult rheas are about five feet tall and weigh 60 to 100 pounds. The birds are 95-percent usable as meat, feathers, oil and leather.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/ratites.htm

[Servant of the Nine]

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So9

[lodwick]

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Thanks... and I thought Ratites were groupies of Ratty.

The birds are 95-percent usable as meat, feathers, oil and leather.

Now thats a useful bird (good thing they cant fly!)

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LOL! Thanks Loddy.

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They hubby says Priestly should never have been driving that car because he wasn't ready for it ..

Hard to tell a guy he isn't ready to drive when he owns the car.

So9

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Boo hoo hoo hoo.

I just got my electric bill. $0.32. With credits they owe me $ 3.74.

Waaaaaahhhh!

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I feel your gain.... better turn up the A/C so you can break even.

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McDonald's sorry for burger blunder - "McAFRIKA" burger flops in Norway

Time to invent the McGuilt-trip burger.

[Servant of the Nine]

Is it true there is a lot of EMU ranches in Texas?

There are a l;ot of Ranches in Texas period, end of statement.

Actually I don't think there are many Emu ranches anywhere. It is just people with a handful of birds. There is no real commercial market for them.

SO9

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The birds are 95-percent usable as meat, feathers, oil and leather.

They must be expensive to raise. I have heard of ostrich skin boots, but not emu.

[Servant of the Nine]

They have never gotten the price down far enough to make the meat marketable in quantity. Like Ted Turners Buffalo. he now has a couple a hundred thousand, but they have to sell the meat at twice the price of beef and people just won't pay that

So9

[Mo1]

Sometimes people have to learn the hard way

[Mo1]

Click on "Tools"
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I don't have that in my tools .. IE hates me ..

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Half a billion Americans?

sheesh! give me some elbow room!