The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: zarzar on November 05, 2013, 07:48:34 pm
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we have just taken the plunge by buying a pr of 7 week old rheas?
just wondered if anyone else keeps them and how they raise/keep them?
They are currently on turkey crumb and hand fed lettuce everyday as thats the diet they where on when we got them.
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No but quite interested to know how you get on. Our new run is probably big enough to have a pair of them wandering around and I got some (dodgy) chickens from a place that had them. It's just the novelty really though so I suspect I'm being drawn by that and would regret it!
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I dunno the eggs sell well and spoke to someone back a long that breeds them to eat they got out on first day lol walked through 2ft chicken wire then wriggled through the sheep stock wire i ended up switching them around with chickens untill they bit bigger where the fence id 5ft high lol
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Hi i keep rheas i have 2 females and 2 males the young ones will just walk up chicken wire i keep them in a 1 Acres field with my chickhens, ducks, geese my fences is about 4 ft stock net they are lovely easy to keep i feed mine on poultry growers and flaked maize do not leave anything lying around they will pinch it and mind your buttons i love them.