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Emu Cool
Emu Cool A.V. Walters Emus Calling Soon, it’ll be time for these emus to move on, literally, to bigger pastures. As is their nature, they’ve become cocky and territorial. No bird, nor cat, dare light...
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Voters and Chickens
Voters and Chickens: Rights (or the lack of) and Repercussions A.V. Walters The Chickens have the floor… Our emus may have to adjust to a different future that I’d imagined for them. It all goes back...
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Who’s Chicken, Now?
Who’s Chicken, Now? A.V. Walters Emus aren’t, by nature, guardian animals. They’re actually pretty skittish and, if you want them to guard a herd, they need a proper introduction. Emus are very social...
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Not By The Hair of My Chinny-Chin-Chin
Not By The Hair of My Chinny-Chin-Chin A.V. Walters Today the goats got out. I don’t know how. I was on the back porch, talking on the phone to my mother, and looked up to see two goats staring at me....
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Coop d’État
Coop d’État A.V. Walters “Meet the new boss Same as the old boss” These chickens are aggressive. They made it absolutely clear who’s in charge in our front yard. Because the emus are so much bigger, we...
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Empty Nest
Empty Nest A.V. Walters Our avian stalemate was short lived. One of the chickens decided to break ranks. I don’t know the dynamics of chicken-chicken relations, much less chicken-emu exchanges. In any...
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Settling In
Settling In A.V. Walters The trauma of the emu relocation is wearing off. It’s been four days now, and my suspicions are bearing out on the source of the emu hostility. After a couple of days of...
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Reunited
Reunited A.V. Walters We ran those two emu generations side by side, in adjacent fields for at least a month, wondering if and when it would be safe to put them together. The emu elders continued to be...
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So, Ya Takin’ Bob?
So, Ya Takin’ Bob? A.V. Walters A Snaggle-toothed Bob Among farmers, especially livestock farmers, I sometimes sense a certain… offhandedness—not quite callous, but a level of indifference, to the...
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Royal Emus Redux
At Home, With The Royals A.V. Walters Of our five emu chicks, two were adopted by a fancy, Napa Valley vineyard/winery. Those two little emus had been our favorites, the ones we named C3 and Sleepy....
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Emus in Absensia
Emus in Absensia A.V. Walters Elmer called the other night—they have emu chicks. Mr. and Mrs. Emu are at it again and, with all the food we gave them over summer, and the mild winter, they now have a...
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Meanwhile…
Meanwhile, Back in California… A.V. Walters — This, we miss. In California, they’ve had the warmest winter on record and the third driest. My California friends have raved about the weather (even while...
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Emu Wet
Who, us? Emu Wet For this post, I’m going to quote Deb’s last emu update, verbatim. Thanks to Deb for sharing the emu experience. “Don’t they just match in with the land of mud. And they are loving...
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The Tyranny of Round Numbers
The Tyranny of Round Numbers A.V. Walters This is my 200th blog. Next week, I’m coming up on my third anniversary of blogging. I’ve been stuck on this momentous event. Somehow, it felt like I was...
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