I've heard of people finding unusual objects when they've moved into a new home but we didn't expect this bird when we bought our property 15 years ago: an emu! The locals told us the previous owners had removed the emu from a nearby dairy, to the property, as it was frightening the cows. Oh that was 10 years or so back we were told. This emu then has wandered around our fields now for over 25 years. She's semi tame and we only give her seed in the dry summer months. We had to learn how to move her when we wanted to move our own sheep, slowly by putting pressure on her shoulder like a cow. However cows don't stop to go through their feathers! We asked an emu farmer at a show how to tell which sex our emu could be and learnt that the female drum. Well ours drums deeply! She is a fixture if annoying at times and for how long we don't know.