blackladies
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Maybe now is the time to get in the llama business. Better buy black mane get that CAB designation.
Should have stayed home today!
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Hey! That one was solid black! maybe that's why he brought so much!
Travlr
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I've wondered about how they would eat... but have never made the leap to acquire any of them so I could try it.
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I have eaten an ostrich burger and alp[aca tenderloin. Ostrich tasted like turkey burger. Alpaca was good....tasted like deer tenderloin.
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I never ate any, but I acquired one back in the early 90’s it just showed up.
It was tame as a cat and would it anything.
Cigarette butts, soda tops, it even tried to get my boys fishing lures out of their tackle box.
That thing was hilarious. It just left and I seen it in the neighbors a week or so later.
It was tame as a cat and would it anything.
Cigarette butts, soda tops, it even tried to get my boys fishing lures out of their tackle box.
That thing was hilarious. It just left and I seen it in the neighbors a week or so later.
When I was in college, my friend and roommate and I bought an old sausage sow for $20 and butchered and ate it for 6 months. The next year he went up to the auction without me to try and do the same thing. He calls in the afternoon and said all the hogs went for over $100 so he didn't do it. But... he was able to pick up a couple old pack llamas for $4, and $5. We butchered and ground it all. It tasted like nothing, very bland. Worked ok for tacos or spaghetti or whatever but i wouldn't highly recommend it. Price was right though.
greybeard
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Someone turned some Emu loose in the national forest beside my old place, around 2010 maybe in 2011's drought. I used to see 'em walking around in the woods from the nearest county road to my place. I bet the coyotes had fun with them. They were once a big thing, or maybe should say yet another Big Thing, that fizzled out. Eggs for hatching were going for $100 each at one point, when the Emu breeders had a propaganda arm that rivaled that of CAB..
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EMU! That's what I was thinking of when I said "rhea".
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I remember when they were $15K/bird
A family I knew that didn’t have much invested heavily in the business, when it crashed they were hurting.
Peace
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Probably from some people in the subdivision raising hell that caused the man to sell out.
wbvs58
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We don't have Emu's here but they start to appear about 20km on the western side of town. The exclusion fencing about 5' high that the sheep Cockies are putting up to keep the dingoes out of their sheep flocks are probably giving them a bit of a hard time.
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