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Imagining this is hilarious. Did you ever do it more than this one time?

• roel_v 6y ago
  No, the next times they drove the horse trailer up to the gate and chased the animals in. The gate was somewhat awkward to access with tbe trailer, hence us catching it the first time, but I guess everybody underestimated how strong these birds are. Also, it's a fun story now, but this could have gone horribly wrong - as per the link below, they actually have 5cm long claws, it would have maimed me if it had caught me. Also other birds we got afterwards were much more aggresive, I got lucky with the first one. The paddock wrapped around the building, to behind our break room, and we had one bird once that would try to steal food from the breakroom table (in the summer we'd leave the window open). Except there were bars on the outside, so then it got its head stuck one day between those bars. We couldn't get near it to free it because of how fierce it was, and also because it was in pain I guess. So they had to actually call in a vet to sedate it before it could be released. No more open windows after that.