
Did You Know Eddington Has Emus? Meet Clarence And Oscar
Jennifer Robertson has a number of animals that live on her property.
"I have chickens, ducks, geese, goats, rabbits, dogs..."
But the animals she gets the most attention for, are two big birds...and when I say big, I mean big.
Robertson has a pair of Emus, right at her house on the Eddington/Brewer town line.
By definition, according to Wikipedia, Emus are "soft-feathered, brown, flightless birds with long necks and legs, and can reach up to 1.9 metres (6.2 ft) in height."
While native to Australia, there are a few that now call Maine home.
"My kids 4h group Shoes N Shears bought an incubator for a hatching project. When the incubator arrived we brought it to a meeting. On the box, it said it could hatch emu eggs. Took us about 6 months to find an emu farm within distance and then we had to wait til they were laying."
The pair is expected to have their first Spring batch of baby Emus in the next coming weeks. Robertson says she will likely sell the eggs, as there has been a rising interest in them.
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