Pdf emu farming reproductive technology researchgate. Emu the second largest flightless bird under the group ratites. The cassowary is rare and is not considered to have any economic importance, while the kiwi is an oddity and is virtually absent from north america except for a few in zoos. In the uk, you require a dangerous wild animals licence. Some countries such as germany require that you complete a course on ostrich husbandry. Emu farming in the 1970s, an aboriginal group in western australia were given permission to capture 400 birds from the wild and experiment with breeding and the tanning of emu skins. This order is of flightless birds with flat breast bone and it includes emu, ostrich, rhea, cassowary and kiwi. One lac lakh lakhs is equivalent to one hundred thousand 100,000. Commercial production there and in the united states is a very recent development. The total emu population in india is estimated to be 1. Features of emu birds, their management, feeding, breeding and health care. The way we look after poultry, cattle farming or goat farming, it is a similar kind of farming which is flourishing in india. Birds need constant access to water as this will effect their consumption of dry feed. Especially, emu oil, which is obtained from the fat of the emu birds, can be marketed as a good skin care product.
The emu dromaius novaehollandiae is an avian species that are native to australia and the second largest bird in the world, after the ostrich. In 1987, birds from this foundation stock were used to establish the present commercial emu farming industry. Today emu farming is still a new and developing part of poultry farming in kazakhstan. Roys farm is enriched with various types of profitable and commercial livestock, fisheries and poultry farming business ideas and guides including business plan to marketing. Emu farming commercial value is increased by emu oil, emu boots, emu meat the colossal commercial value of this business is a consequence of the range of byproducts obtained from it like emu boots, emu oil, and emu meat.
Other bird industries, including those based on the turkey, chicken, duck, goose and guineafowl, make extensive use of artificial insemination. The limu emu, featured in ads for liberty mutual insurance, has been a big hit for the company. Importance of emu and its farming in india journal of livestock. The birds were a food and fuel source for early european settlers, and are now farmed, in australia and elsewhere, for their meat, oil and leather. Although emu and ostrich were introduced in india, emu farming has gained. Although emu farming is considered to be economical, we have to study the behavior of emus to. It was converted to a pdf file, 102001 emu production dr. Hermes the most economically important species of ratites are the ostrich and the emu, with the rhea a distant third. Code of practice emu farming queensland environment department.
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