Did anyone in Canton/Alpharetta GA lose an EMU?

[Party_Rose]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-title”>quote:</div><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-content”>Honestly don’t visit my farm…it just ain’t right over here. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
OMG - I’ve been gone for a day & a half and I come back to all of this new excitement. And his was the only reply I have read!

I’d better go clean my glasses and keep all beverages out of reach. I just cleaned the computer screen.

[LMH]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-title”>quote:</div><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-content”>Originally posted by Irish Ei’s:
Alert!!! Birdzilla action over in “Toe Grabs”… </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Where! Where!

[hunterjumper1002]

Wheres Steve Erwin when you need him?

[LMH]

Looks like we are in a holding pattern until animal control can get in touch with Dept of Ag and see what can be done…since the owner can’t take them.

My poor neighbor-Emusement is just frying my horses—she has to LIVE with him!

Emu Oil anyone??? LOLOL.

[Chester_s_Mom]

Remember me saying my feed distributor actually paid for one, when LMH had free ones running around Canton? Well, we got invited over to meet him! His name is Big Bird, and he eats all their stale bread. His pen is within sight of the next door neighbor’s Arabians, and they spend alot of time looking like LMH’s pictures (without the chasing scenes).

[Party_Rose]

SO LMH, What’s the latest at <span class=“ev_code_BLUE”>R</span><span class=“ev_code_PINK”>A</span><span class=“ev_code_RED”>I</span><span class=“ev_code_GREEN”>N</span><span class=“ev_code_PINK”>B</span><span class=“ev_code_RED”>O</span><span class=“ev_code_PURPLE”>W</span> <span class=“ev_code_PURPLE”>R</span><span class=“ev_code_GREEN”>A</span><span class=“ev_code_RED”>N</span><span class=“ev_code_PINK”>C</span><span class=“ev_code_GREEN”>H</span>.
We need a gay gelding update. Has your dad recovered?

I showed Cindeye the ultimate hot walker yesterday that makes chez round pen look like a back shed.

[Seahorsefarmtobe]

So the owners are in jail? Hope there is no a farm-full of starving animals…I’d be happy to check it out if you know their address…

[icicle333]

i have been following this all along…it’s just so funny! i especially liked the website that had a recipe for “Emu Suprise”

LMH, i hope your horses learn to cope soon. at my old barn we had a muskrat family decide to invade our small pond right that was about 10 feet out from the fencline…it took the horses about a week to get use to the little things swimming back and forth across the pond with mouthfulls of grass and weeds. the horses would walk briskly over to the fence to investigate, and once there would run away…almost like of they stared too/ or got caught looking the muskrats would launch an attack! freaks

[Just_My_Style]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-title”>quote:</div><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-content”>Maybe Emusement can be lured into the $75K round pen, then herded into a stock trailer? I would pay to watch this, you understand… </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yes. I forgot to add that if you take any of my suggestions, then call me because I want to watch.

[LMH]

Me me me???

IF I recall young Miss Spot…I am the only child here I am the one that gets my way I am Princess Leah…

so YES me me me.

I watched those 2 boys like a hawk…now little Hugo has taken to wood chewing like a beaver…perhaps a little “nursing frustration” coming out.

I shared this experience with my vet-he said he knows of no such thing…trying to nurse SURE…gelding allowing it…never.

He wants to call an animal behavioralist over it! Great…famous ONCE again for ALL THE WRONG REASONS.

I told my 80yo dad about it…he is just beside himself…he just kept repeating to separate them if it ever happens again.

Then he told me to coat Milo’s ahem with Motor Oil so it NEVER happens again.

I can only picture me, oil can and brush in hand, dew rag on my hand…here Milo Milo…mommy has a SPECIAL treat for you today!

[LaurieB]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-title”>quote:</div><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-content”>Originally posted by LMH:
Great…famous ONCE again for ALL THE WRONG REASONS. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Maybe that’s just your karma?

[Irish_Ei_s]

I feel a new thread coming…Where to find EMU sized halters??

[jilltx]

Oh LMH…I really feel for you on this one but I must say the story and the photos have kept me quite entertained.

We once had ostritches down the road from us. One day I thought it would be cool to ride down and pay them a visit. Not one of my brightest moments.

[weezie]

I didn’t make it through every post - the pictures are hysterical. Did you call the Kangaroo place in Dawsonville?
Kangaroo Conservation Center
phone 706-265-6100

[Indy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-title”>quote:</div><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-content”>Originally posted by LaurieB:
Please don’t catch that Emu, because I am totally addicted to this thread.
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have to agree! This is simply too amusing…err…Emusing

This just proves the wonders of COTH…where else on the internet could two people realize that they’ve both had the same Emu problem.

[Madison]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-title”>quote:</div><div class=“ip-ubbcode-quote-content”>Originally posted by LaurieB:
This is the funniest thread I’ve read in a long time. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

And really, it could only happen to LMH Poor Julian - I’m sure he’s just

LMH, please tell me you haven’t told Mike about this one . . . .

[good_booie]

Is the Emu at KB’s place? I might be able to help get him adopted to a lovely “all animals taken in” farm in north Georgia. They have one Emu and maybe this might work out if need be.

[LMH]

Much to MY horses dismay, an emu has arrived next door-my neighbor found him in her yard and has sort of contained him in a pasture…

If he can climb under a BreezyGate or go over a normal size pasture fence then I will own 2 Sons of Seabiscuit! As he will be on my fenceline and I am not sure if the 2 TBs can mentally go with the flow on that one .

SO…if you are missing an EMU please email or PT me—would like to get him back to his home.

Thanks

[genesis]

Hi,

Back in 1999 I composed the following, and thought I’d contribute it here to honor the “Emus in north Georgia” thread…which I seem to have overlooked before in its march to renown on the forum…

My original subject line was: Calico at C; Emu at E…

start******

It was a pretty exciting Sunday afternoon at Parkeridge Farm in Athens,
GA…

I popped over around 6pm to say hi to Gena and found a full-scale “herd
alert” in progress as the equines (some of them) went ballistic to see that
a new critter was on the farm. Yep, an emu strolled out of the woods into
an uninhabited pasture…until recently it was Gena’s field but on May 1 she
was moved to her “stay-slim for bathing suit days” pasture for the summer
months.

Clara’s thoroughbreds were among the most “looky, looky, what is that crazy
thing…and it’s coming closer!!” bunch. Indy, from her stall, was doing
whirlies that almost dug her all the way to China. yet clara’s swedish
warmblood Lo who can be silly sometimes over seemlingly inconsequential
matters was among the ho-hum crowd (as was Gena, and a cute new inhabitant,
natalie’s 4-yo qh Travis, who’d just left his birth home to move to the
farm!) Clara managed to lead Indy out to her pasture so she could have a
better view of the bird and hopefully feel less stressed…which is just
what happened! Indy was more anxious when the bird was temporarily hidden
from view by the hilly terrain, than when she could follow its every move,
even though she was much closer.

We helped “show the way out” to the emu by turning off the electric down the
side he/she kept patrolling. The fence is constructed for easy dismantling
(by horse, or in this case, by humans) so the prongs were removed on 2
uprights and the electric wires moved up to create a large opening from the
ground up to about 4 feet. Then the 3 of us (clara, natalie and I) called
the bird out. It must be used to humans and perhaps even women because it
did seem attracted to our voices.(and perhaps my bright orange tee)…

Clara called animal control but they were out on a dogbite mission.
the emu was not attracted by horse grain rattled in a tin can… and crossed
the dirt road near the barn into the adjacent woods. Around 8pm the animal
control person phoned back with the news that there have been other
sightings of the emu(s)…most recently at the green hills golf course,
which is just one block from my home! and about one mile from Clara’s farm
as the crow flies. Apparently since emu ranching has become unprofitable,
herds have been “released”…

the AC officer predicted the emu would sleep for the night in the woods and
reappear today! (it never re-appeared in the 6 years since!)

Last summer when Gena came to live at Clara’s, I said chapter 1 of her farm
memoirs (destined to become a bestseller, I’m sure) could be called “Calico
at C” because of the feline audience that gathers arena-side to critique our
rides! Now yesterday has supplied chapter 2, “Emu at E” !

never a dull,
virginia (acting as agent for “calico, emu, etc…” )
p.s. speaking of the felines, some of them hunkered down wagon-train style
(circle up, that is) when faced with the emu, probably thinking the monster
was their worst nightmare: the “ghost of all the little songbirds they had
ever eaten, rolled into one Mother…!!!” one kitty, though, was brave
(or senseless?) enough to stalk it! luckily, the emu didn’t waste any
thought on making a pre-emptive strike and the cat finally (wisely) yielded
ground…
end of 1999 emu epic**

stay cool everyone,
virginia

[Other]

Apparently your horses aren’t the only ones dealing with this situation…Perhaps this is a long lost cousin?

EMUSING as well

Someone needs to call officer Fisher