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But the pig won't squeal on him

#1 Post by gsabc » Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:13 pm

I am still chuckling over this one. How do you lose an emu?

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/18 ... s&psp=news
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#2 Post by ne1410s » Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:16 pm

Don't they have any emugency services there?
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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:22 pm

gsabc wrote:I am still chuckling over this one. How do you lose an emu?
I think they can run pretty fast!

Do emus tolerate winter weather? I'd be searching in the direction of Florida, instead of Massachusetts! 8)

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#4 Post by andrewjackson » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:28 pm

gsabc wrote:I am still chuckling over this one. How do you lose an emu?

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/18 ... s&psp=news
There was an emu farm nearby when I lived at the summer camp in Michigan. They had a couple of emu escapes where they didn't find the missing birds for a couple of weeks. Foster, RI looks to be a similarly rural, wooded area. I can see where an emu could be hard to find. They are not naturally flocking animals so they don't have as big a drive to stick around with other birds like a lot of domestic animals.

Emus can tolerate cold weather as long as they can stay dry and out of the wind.

Animals can be hard to catch if they don't want to be. My dad in Indiana had a heifer escape a couple of years ago that was missing for a month. They finally caught it on another cattle farm several miles away. She was getting into their barn at night and eating feed. They trapped her and then called my dad because they knew he raised the same breed. My dad drove over, loaded her in the trailer, and went straight to the meat processor.
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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:33 pm

andrewjackson wrote: Animals can be hard to catch if they don't want to be. My dad in Indiana had a heifer escape a couple of years ago that was missing for a month. They finally caught it on another cattle farm several miles away. She was getting into their barn at night and eating feed. They trapped her and then called my dad because they knew he raised the same breed. My dad drove over, loaded her in the trailer, and went straight to the meat processor.
:shock:

No wonder she didn't want to be found.

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#6 Post by andrewjackson » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:39 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
andrewjackson wrote: Animals can be hard to catch if they don't want to be. My dad in Indiana had a heifer escape a couple of years ago that was missing for a month. They finally caught it on another cattle farm several miles away. She was getting into their barn at night and eating feed. They trapped her and then called my dad because they knew he raised the same breed. My dad drove over, loaded her in the trailer, and went straight to the meat processor.
:shock:

No wonder she didn't want to be found.
They're beef cattle. They all end up at the same place.

If she had stayed home like a good cow should, she could have lived a long life, had lots of calves, and then went to the locker plant.
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#7 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:52 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
andrewjackson wrote: Animals can be hard to catch if they don't want to be. My dad in Indiana had a heifer escape a couple of years ago that was missing for a month. They finally caught it on another cattle farm several miles away. She was getting into their barn at night and eating feed. They trapped her and then called my dad because they knew he raised the same breed. My dad drove over, loaded her in the trailer, and went straight to the meat processor.
:shock:

No wonder she didn't want to be found.


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