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Ostriches are extremely powerful, dangerously fickle and unpredictable, basically a dinosaur the size of a small car Emu on the other hand are small and relati

Ostriches are extremely powerful, dangerously fickle and unpredictable, basically a dinosaur the size of a small car Emu on the other hand are small and relatively docile but still pretty dangerous very smart and can jump very high, so fencing is no joke. I just dont see any upside to raising these giant birds

shrimp_emoji 3y ago
You just described why dinosaurs are cool.
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  Sometimes I think the easiest path to Jurassic Park would be to try to breed really big ostriches. On the other hand it might be a better project to try to get sign language gorillas to teach other gorillas how to use sign language. Circa 2000 my wife and I were planning to get into farming and would up visiting quite a few Llama and Alpaca farms that were frequently run by very rich retirees from corporate America. We wound up keeping horses which are a much better business because people really do want to ride horses.
  - TylerE 3y ago
    I think there is a strong argument to made that cassowarys are true living dinosaurs. They're really something else. The only bird to have be reliably and repeatedly recorded as killing adult humans, including an incident in Florida in 2019 where a hand-raised one killed it's owner. Up to 150lbs of muscle, claw, and beak, and they can stand over 6ft tall.
- psunavy03 3y ago
  https://xkcd.com/1211/ https://xkcd.com/1211/
chasd00 3y ago
> Emu on the other hand are small and relatively docile Emus are so weirdly neurotic and aggressive, I hate being around them. If an Ostrich is even more unpredictable than an Emu it's hard to imagine farming them would even be possible.
- jemmyw 3y ago
  I quite like Emu I've not seen them being aggressive towards people. Some of them are just not frightened of people so they'll come towards you, and if they think you have some food... But the ones I've met have been pretty gentle, eat out your hand. Neurotic and unpredictable: I think they're just really stupid. If I had a bit more land I'd quite like to have some Emu. I like them and my mother is scared of them so I see only positives.
zdragnar 3y ago
My wife and I did a drive-through Safari park thing in Arkansas a few years back. You get a bag of feed each and can feed anything that's allowed to approach cars, including emu. There's one spot where there's a bridge over what's effectively a ditch with a small creek running through it. A few emu followed us around the park, but several of them camped out on the far side of the bridge. When I drove into the bridge, they all moved to the middle of it and boxed the car in. They wouldn't let us pass until most of them got a handful or so of food. It was quite surreal, and I don't know that I'd enjoy trying to run a farm of large birds like that.

shrimp_emoji 3y ago

You just described why dinosaurs are cool.

PaulHoule 3y ago
Sometimes I think the easiest path to Jurassic Park would be to try to breed really big ostriches. On the other hand it might be a better project to try to get sign language gorillas to teach other gorillas how to use sign language. Circa 2000 my wife and I were planning to get into farming and would up visiting quite a few Llama and Alpaca farms that were frequently run by very rich retirees from corporate America. We wound up keeping horses which are a much better business because people really do want to ride horses.
- TylerE 3y ago
  I think there is a strong argument to made that cassowarys are true living dinosaurs. They're really something else. The only bird to have be reliably and repeatedly recorded as killing adult humans, including an incident in Florida in 2019 where a hand-raised one killed it's owner. Up to 150lbs of muscle, claw, and beak, and they can stand over 6ft tall.
psunavy03 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1211/ https://xkcd.com/1211/

chasd00 3y ago

> Emu on the other hand are small and relatively docile Emus are so weirdly neurotic and aggressive, I hate being around them. If an Ostrich is even more unpredictable than an Emu it's hard to imagine farming them would even be possible.

jemmyw 3y ago
I quite like Emu I've not seen them being aggressive towards people. Some of them are just not frightened of people so they'll come towards you, and if they think you have some food... But the ones I've met have been pretty gentle, eat out your hand. Neurotic and unpredictable: I think they're just really stupid. If I had a bit more land I'd quite like to have some Emu. I like them and my mother is scared of them so I see only positives.

zdragnar 3y ago

My wife and I did a drive-through Safari park thing in Arkansas a few years back. You get a bag of feed each and can feed anything that's allowed to approach cars, including emu. There's one spot where there's a bridge over what's effectively a ditch with a small creek running through it. A few emu followed us around the park, but several of them camped out on the far side of the bridge. When I drove into the bridge, they all moved to the middle of it and boxed the car in. They wouldn't let us pass until most of them got a handful or so of food. It was quite surreal, and I don't know that I'd enjoy trying to run a farm of large birds like that.