Posted on 10/22/2019 2:45:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Employees at a Kentucky zoo rounded up a quartet of emus that escaped from an Amish farm and went wandering near a busy highway.
Mick McGill, animal management director at the Kentucky Down Under Adventure Zoo, said phone calls started coming in about 3 p.m. from drivers who spotted the emus wandering loose near the L&N Turnpike in Horse Cave.
McGill said he and his head zookeeper, Harley White, did a quick check to make sure the emus didn't belong to the zoo, and soon determined the large birds had escaped from a nearby Amish farm. McGill and White headed over to the location to attempt to capture the wandering Australian birds.
"They were pretty friendly emus," McGill told WNKY-TV. "We've had quite a bit of experience rounding up emus here. You get behind them and wave your arms is the best way to do it, and hope they don't kick you."
"They're not a herding animal so it's not easy to keep them together," he said.
McGill and White were able to guide the emus back to the farm safely.
"I took my head zookeeper with me, guided them back in, rounded them up and got them home," he said. "That's not the nuttiest thing I've done in the last 24 hours."
I think Doug and Limu were responsible for this.
Mass escapes!....................
Emus...like congresscritters on a break!
Did they play Yakety Sax while they were chasing them?
We raised Emus, Never met a mean one unless you get right in their face in an aggressive manner as a real threat. They are indeed NOT a herding animal, unless you actually train them to herd with a wheeled cage you push around like a wheelbarrow when they are young, it’s almost impossible. As a natural defense habit they run back at you and then dodge around you like a football player carrying the ball avoiding your tackle. We have actually had to herd them in the wrong direction on purpose to get them to go the direction we really wanted them to go. lol
Ask rod hull ...
Kentucky?
Maybe they’re trying to cross a race horse and an emu.....a hormu.
That’s what they wanted you to think, in reality they are planning for the next war...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
I read about that a few years back. Tell you what, they are very good eating. It is a red meat that looks and tastes very similar to Elk. I hope they didn’t waste all that, it would have been a shame.
What you need for emus on the roads is one of those big Broncos or Blazers from the eighties with the biggest V8 offered and the cattle-catcher style front bar. They would work good on inner city jay-walking ferals too.
Oooo. A three-fer.
I had to look him up. Finally got the reference.
I was initially confused about this article because of the acurate use of the adjective Amish.
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