A wayward emu is on the loose in Harrison County after spooking a rancher’s livestock for two weeks. Brad Martin said his son and nephew were heading to the family fishing hole on a summer afternoon when they spotted the unwelcome guest.
“They came running up to the house, yelling, ‘Daddy, there’s a prehistoric animal at the pond!’ ” Martin said.
When Martin investigated, he found an emu: a shaggy, flightless bird of Australian origin. Emus had been the objects of a farming fad that faded in the 1990s. The birds are none too bright, he added.
“It was real gentle, just dumb as a rock, though,” he said. “You wouldn’t believe how dumb they are. The gate was open, and he’d just run back and forth. The dogs would get after him, and he wouldn’t take off down the pasture to get away from them. He’d jump up and down and do all kinds of crazy stuff.”
Martin could not find the owner. He thought about giving away the emu, but he didn’t have a trailer to transport it, and even if he did, he said he wouldn’t have known how to load the seven-foot-tall bird.
Meanwhile, the emu was “rampaging” on his property. “It wasn’t afraid of nothing,” Martin said. “It was just scaring the horses and the cows and dogs to death because they’re not used to nothing like that. It would get out there beside the fence and run up and down the fence. The cows wouldn’t eat, the horses wouldn’t eat, the dogs kept barking, and finally we let the gate open and let it go.”
Martin shooed the emu away from his property on Dehart Road, east of Diana. If any neighbors come across the wandering bird, they may report it to their county sheriff.
Kenneth “Al” Howe, the president of the Texas Emu Association, was pretty miffed when he heard that Martin had turned out the emu. He said Martin should have alerted the emu association or animal control authorities to remove the bird. He said when the market for emu meat failed to materialize in the ’90s, many speculators around East Texas and elsewhere released their flocks. Some are still laying eggs in the wild.
“Most that haven’t been hit by cars or killed by predators are pretty well hidden,” said Howe, who lives in Central Texas. “A lot of people who have big farms know they’ve got them, but they don’t bother them.”
An emu processing plant once operated in Longview but closed in the late 1990s. Emu oil is still used in cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, and Howe predicts that demand will increase in the next couple of years.
In Diana, Martin said the emu had his Red Brangus cows scattering in every direction.
“Talk about fast, when it decides to go it’s going,” Martin said. “It was a pretty wild little old experience.”
The rancher figures he hasn’t seen the last of the errant emu. “I’m sure it’s around here somewhere,” he said. “I bet it ain’t gone too far down the line.”
AN UPDATE
The day after the story about the emu appeared in the local newspaper, a Diana woman named Anita Davis called in. She thinks it’s her bird. His name is Bud. He’s 16 years old, and he’s been on his own for quite some time.
“Everybody knew my emu had gotten out, but it’s been out for six months and I just assumed it was dead,” she said.
If this emu is indeed Bud, he hasn’t wandered far in the past half-year. The Martin place is less than a mile from Davis’s spread.
“I just really feel like this is my emu,” she said.
According to Davis, Martin’s description of Bud — gentle but dumb as rocks — was pretty accurate. “He’s tame,” she said. “He was a pet when I had him, but he got out through the gate, and we couldn’t catch him.”
Davis and her husband have one emu left, Bud’s father. At one time, the Davises owned 101 emus, but they gave away almost all of the others when a market for emu meat didn’t materialize.
While some emu enthusiasts swear by the birds’ lean flesh, Davis said she doesn’t partake. “If I was starving I could probably have eaten it, but I can’t eat something I’ve given a name to,” she said.
If anybody finds Bud, Davis requests that they give her a call. Don’t try to catch him, she added.
“The males are very friendly, and that’s why they can pet him,” she said. However, “you have to know how to handle an emu or they can get hurt really bad.”
Since the newspaper story came out, Davis said her husband has heard from other neighbors who have seen Bud. “He may not want to come home,” she joked. “It sounds like he’s having a good time.”
4,156 responses to “Emu on the run”
56. A pair of younger ladies converse with each other throughout a formal house ball.
To create an arresting bathroom design statement in a much less-than-lavish footprint, this room makes use of a minimalist approach with only a few high quality parts thoughtfully deployed.
Usually occasions when designing the layout and configuration of a mechanical room, it is best to imagine the path that pool water takes as it makes its approach by means of the room.
On 1 April 2008, Valdés made his 250th look for Barcelona.
I am really impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your blog.
Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Anyway keep up the excellent quality writing,
it is rare to see a great blog like this one today.
It’s actually very complex in this full of activity
life to listen news on TV, thus I only use the web for that purpose, and get the most recent news.
??????
Hi to every one, for the reason that I am actually keen of reading this web site’s
post to be updated daily. It consists of nice stuff.
Good post. I learn something new and challenging on sites I stumbleupon everyday.
It’s always helpful to read through articles from other authors and use
a little something from their web sites.
Thank you for sharing excellent informations. Your web site is very cool. I’m impressed by the details that you?ve on this website. It reveals how nicely you understand this subject. Bookmarked this web page, will come back for more articles. You, my pal, ROCK! I found just the information I already searched all over the place and simply could not come across. What a great site.
Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as
though you relied on the video to make your point.
You clearly know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just
posting videos to your blog when you could be giving us something informative to read?
I read this piece of writing fully on the
topic of the difference of newest and previous technologies, it’s amazing article.
If you want to grow your know-how simply keep visiting this web page and be updated with the most recent
news update posted here.
Hey there! This is my first comment here so I just
wanted to give a quick shout out and say I genuinely enjoy
reading your blog posts. Can you suggest any other blogs/websites/forums
that deal with the same subjects? Thanks a lot!
Wow, this piece of writing is nice, my sister is analyzing these things, therefore I am going to convey her.
Restaurant G:- Recognized for its child pleasant menu and play space.
21 March 1979: Arsenal beat Southampton 2-0 in their FA Cup sixth spherical replay to join Liverpool, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester United in the semi-finals.
First Christian Church in Eugene has Povey Brothers windows created for the current building constructed in 1911, in addition to windows moved from a earlier constructing that had been made in about 1865 by different artists.
They added a pleasing glowing ambience to an inside and in many churches within the early 19th century made up your entire glazing.
At its core, a Land Rover is constructed to get people as far away from civilization as doable.
Nonetheless, throughout a 1-1 draw in opposition to AS Monaco on 29 January 2017, Trapp suffered a muscle damage and was substituted in the 54th minute; he was sidelined for 2 weeks.
Free French infantry preventing in the Normandy beaches on June 6 is proscribed to the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos (1er BFMC) beneath Free French Navy Main Philippe Kieffer.
In March 2010 it was introduced that Chhetri was on trial with the Kansas Metropolis Wizards of Major League Soccer and that he had performed throughout their pre-season games.
The achievement of a shutout is way harder in Canadian soccer, the place scoring and offensive movement is mostly more frequent and a single point could be scored just by punting the ball from any point on the sector into the tip zone.
Alex says: Star Wars is hit or miss, but the owner is a great guy and he could have probably distinctive gadgets from candy, journal, stickers, books, and information that are all related to Star Wars.
Mix evenly into the pool water by circulating with pump working for no less than 8 hours.
Be sure eye holes are giant enough for child to see out.
Furniture ought to complement this setting – a sleek, fashionable desk paying homage to the U.A.
The standard of the work when the firm was at its busiest in the 1870s grew to become heavier, as it additionally did with other corporations in that decade.
I like the valuable info you provide in your articles. I?ll bookmark your blog and check again here regularly. I’m quite sure I?ll learn lots of new stuff right here! Best of luck for the next!
Texts such as the Shatapatha Brahmana and Vinaya Pitaka mention glass, implying they could have been recognized in India in the course of the early first millennium BCE.
Just a few French infantry were involved in Operation Overlord, the Allied landing operations in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
This is required in winter when it’s worthwhile to drain all water from the heat pump to prevent harm by freezing, nevertheless you could have a frost stat in your pool pump and may want to proceed to circulate the water round your pool pipes.
He went on to play in the return match on 2 November at White Hart Lane as Spurs earned a famous 3-1 victory.
The primary time by means of you may most likely miss about 90 at first hearing.
Brother is acknowledged for its dependable and efficient typewriters that are suitable for each personal and office use.
Like other noise from residences, noise from home restore or maintenance could also be unreasonable at any time.
Fang Yu is tasked to practice Ming Tian and through the strategy of studying, the 2 fall in love with each other.
At the identical time because the Canadian 1st division landed in Brest, the Canadian 242 Squadron of the RAF flew their Hawker Hurricanes to Nantes, 100 miles south-east, and arrange there to provide air cover.
The left hand mild exhibits St Martin astride his horse and handing half of his cloak to a beggar and in the other mild Martin kneels earlier than Our Lord who is seen holding the piece of cloak.
Quality content is the important to be a focus for the
people to pay a visit the website, that’s what this web site is
providing.
I have really learned result-oriented things by means of your blog. One other thing I would really like to say is the fact newer laptop operating systems have a tendency to allow a lot more memory to use, but they as well demand more storage simply to perform. If one’s computer could not handle much more memory as well as newest application requires that memory space increase, it can be the time to buy a new Laptop or computer. Thanks
This was eventually overcome by replacing among the potash flux with lead oxide to the melt.
You actually mentioned this superbly.
Both of these heat pumps work on the same precept and sometimes look very a lot alike, but on the inside they’re different in many ways.
If you are squeamish about crashing strangers’ occasions, you too can discover it at some eating places around the globe, together with London’s Mayfair restaurant.
45-46 in Braghin, C. (ed) Chinese language Glass.
Speaking about indoor swimming swimming pools, they are positioned inside, under a roof, and are insulated by no less than three partitions.
The CED film is listed in Star Wars collectors guides, so there is competition from Star Wars collectors who are primarily interested within the caddy artwork (the Star Trek and Elvis CED titles are in an identical state of affairs).
While returning to the airfield, Le Gloan shot down another CR.Forty two and one other BR.20 bomber.