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Ostriches in Australia...

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03 September 2018, 16:54
Bakes
Ostriches in Australia...
Well I never knew that.


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03 September 2018, 20:21
Fjold
It makes sense in the similar climate. I wonder what the infertility issue is?


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04 September 2018, 00:20
Nick Adams
What are those birds like to hunt?

Shoot 'em on the move? Or pop 'em in the torso when their heads are buried in the sand?


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05 September 2018, 02:42
A.J. Hydell
quote:
Originally posted by Nick Adams:
What are those birds like to hunt?
Shoot 'em on the move? Or pop 'em in the torso when their heads are buried in the sand?


Ostriches shouldn't be that hard to kill. Just wait 'til you find one bent over, head in the sand, and shoot 'em in the keister with a 12ga. Maybe use #4 shot.


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05 September 2018, 03:34
Johnny_Revolver
quote:
Originally posted by Bakes:
Well I never knew that.


I heard stories about it when I was kid and I first went out west. My boss in the course of plying his trade desilting dams traveled quite extensively mostly in outback QLD and into the north and earlier on in the corner country.

If there are just 2 of you out in the middle of nowhere for a month to 6 weeks at a time you tend to hear someone's full history. He told me yarns about ostriches.

But the first time I worked for him it was 1981 so we did dams that'd been dug by horse teams and even Chinamen by shovel. You can understand I heard a lot more far fetched yarns than Ostrich sightings.
05 September 2018, 10:06
sambarman338
Something I discovered at Heathcote last weekend was that 'emeu' is Portuguese for ostrich.
05 September 2018, 17:58
Bushchook
Still a few on farms here and there. I saw some last week but they weren't feral.


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