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 ...

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 ...

Most of the adult birds raised on Birds of a Feather Farm, are meat birds. Emu meat, which is technically poultry, is not like chicken. It is red meat, similar to beef, but higher in protein, 98% fat ...

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 flocked around him. That ...

FARGO — The American Emu Association is coming to Fargo for its convention Sept. 15-17. While interest in the emu industry has waned since its heyday in the mid-1990s, about 35 to 40 emu enthusiasts ...

KALISPELL (AP) — 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 ...

It’s an old, well-worn theme-park rumor: Those jumbo turkey legs are actually emu meat. It may get new life now that actor Zachary Levi announced it as inside information on Conan O’Brien’s talk show ...