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Rocky

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gary short said:
hahahaha...........sounds like customs at LAX..........geez.
LAX, you say, like in LAXATIVE?
Well, I suppose if an ostrich rear-ended you, it might have that effect on you.
 

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mountainfrog said:
Where can I get ostriches in this country?

m'frog

Hi mountainfrog, I've never seen an ostrich here. The closest perhaps is the US. Do you have enough land for this?

Did you joking fellows know that ostrich farming is considered to be quite environmentally friendly just by the nature of the animal/bird? An ostrich has the best feed to weight ratio gain of any land animal in the world, and when fully grown has one of the most advance immune systems known to mankind.
 

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Chris said:
Hi mountainfrog, I've never seen an ostrich here. The closest perhaps is the US. Do you have enough land for this?

Did you joking fellows know that ostrich farming is considered to be quite environmentally friendly just by the nature of the animal/bird? An ostrich has the best feed to weight ratio gain of any land animal in the world, and when fully grown has one of the most advance immune systems known to mankind.
Hey... Stop being so informative and educational.
Can't you see we're having fun here?
Party Pooper !!!
Now, where was I ???
Oh yeah... An Ostrich induced enema....
 

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Rocky: Dude you were on a roll:p:p

Thoroughly enjoyed the thread until ol' Chris came in with all that environmental stuff!!

M'frog: If you have the ostriches from the Zoo, won't they breed? Or do you want some new stock.?? I do believe I have seen other people with ostriches...maybe the León family? Somebody with a "name" that is for sure.

Maybe Casa de Campo??

Couldn't you get a couple of fertil eggs FedExed to you? Just thinking here...

And I hear they are excellent guards...

HB :D:D:D:D
 

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Rocky said:
Hey... Stop being so informative and educational.
Can't you see we're having fun here?
Party Pooper !!!
Now, where was I ???
Oh yeah... An Ostrich induced enema....
Duh, I grew up with these things and at some stage, its just not funny any more...
Did you know, an ostrich can give you a ride?
Did you know an ostrich is just a chick with loooong legs?
Do you know on which side of the ostrich are the feathers? - the outside
Why does on ostrich have such a long neck? - cause its head is so far from its body.

And so on and so on. Where I come from there is an area where the ostrich and an ostrich farmer is analogous to an australian and a sheep.

Why can't an ostrich fly? If they could, the farmers would fall off .. and so on and so on.

Sorry, did not realise an ostrich was not the average chick for you fellows down here.
 

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Do they eat frogs?

Chris said:
I've never seen an ostrich here.
Nor have I.
But I know that there are.
One guy offered me a pair.
By the time they are about four months old they measure 2.20 m in height, he said.
The price, however, is very high.

Chris said:
Do you have enough land for this?
Well, we have about 115 tareas, where the ostriches would have to make friends with our cattle...
Our land is quite hilly, which, I guess, ostriches do not like so much.

Chris said:
...ostrich farming is ... quite environmentally friendly...
That is one reason to like them.

m'frog
 

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And the feathers are antistatic.

Hillbilly said:
M'frog: If you have the ostriches from the Zoo, won't they breed?
That was a joke, I apologize.

Hillbilly said:
Couldn't you get a couple of fertil eggs FedExed to you? Just thinking here...
1. Custom guys would eat them.
(One egg = scrambled eggs for 7 people)
2.I don't have an incubator and then young ostriches are not easy to raise.

Hillbilly said:
And I hear they are excellent guards...
See, Gary.

m'frog
 

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mountainfrog said:
See, Gary.

m'frog
I'm not so sure they are such great guards.
Whenever I saw them in Africa, it was always their backsides, running away from us.
If you want good guard birds, get Geese.
They'll bust your kneecaps if you come in, and make so much noise, the whole neighbourhood will hear.
Damn... Now you got me being serious too.
It's infectious.
Do you know how hard it is to get a thread going as funny as "Dominically Confused" or "Plastic Hairy Burritos"?
 

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Chris said:
Now way, you're culturally confused .. they were showing off!
Right, right, right...
I got it now.
Like the Lioness who shows her backside to the Lion.
It never occured to me that those Ostriches might have found me cute.
 

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Now don't go about hiding your head in the sand...;-)

About two years ago I drove by an ostrich farm in Cojobal, near Bayaguana, Monte Plata province.
 

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Frog on the run

Rocky said:
I'm not so sure they are such great guards.
Whenever I saw them in Africa, it was always their backsides, running away from us.

Tactics.
The one running away from you, was daddy ostrich...
Did you look behind you...?

BTW, mama ostrich can outrun any safari vehicle...
I had my Landrover in last gear, when she decided to let me go!

m'frog
 

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OP by Chris:
Did you know an ostrich is just a chick with loooong legs?


Did you know an ostrich's eye was bigger than its brain?

Thank you Mirador!, I just knew that I had seen something about them!!

Yeah team! We got ostriches!!

HB:p:p:p:p
 
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