For a while, emu farming was all the rage among people searching for a slower lifestyle or looking for other ways to use their extra land. But the desire to eat the meat of these large, flightless ...

Australians call it their national bird, but you may soon be calling it lunch. The regal emu, a 100-pound, ostrichlike bird with a graceful neck and powerful legs for running the outback, has shown up ...

Emu ranchers had hoped the lamebrained, arguably ugly birds with useless wings would take flight in agribusiness. But emu ranching - like some other types of nontraditional livestock operations- is ...

Emus are pretty exceptional birds. Averaging almost six feet tall, they’re the second tallest bird in the world, only after ostriches. They weigh more than 100 pounds, and they can’t fly. But, like ...

Emus at the Montana Emu Ranch. KALISPELL, Mont. — Emus are curious birds, longtime rancher Don Collins mused as he entered a pen full of yearlings. About 20 of the large, flightless birds immediately ...

KALISPELL — It sounded like a muted bongo drum, the thud-thud-thud working its way up a snowy hill at one of the last remaining emu ranches in Montana. More drums joined in, making the fields seem ...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Emu ranchers had hoped the lame-brained, arguably ugly birds with useless wings would take flight in agribusiness. But emu ranching - like some other types of nontraditional livestock ...