I spent some time staying with friends years ago at their Ostrich farm and learned a thing or two about these strange looking critters.

They can be very dangerous. The knee bends forward and their kick can kill large predators like lions. A peck from the beak is no picnic either.
They run 45 mph.
They have a very small brain. To handle them you cover their head with a sock and can then walk them around easily with a leash.
They can accidentally kill themselves if they miss a forward kick and connect at their own neck, cutting their jugular vein. As I said, they aren't very smart.
The meat is excellent and very healthy. Looks and tastes like a steak with no unhealthy fat and very low in cholesterol.

That ostrich seemed to be a little more “frisky” than wanting to “attack”.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
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The meat is excellent and very healthy. Looks and tastes like a steak with no unhealthy fat and very low in cholesterol.

Plus you can make one hell of an omelet from one of their eggs. Jus' sayin'.

(I've always thought that the real tragedy of the dinosaur extinction (excepting birds) is that we'll never get to eat them. Some of them could have been mighty tasty.)

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
...The meat is excellent and very healthy. Looks and tastes like a steak with no unhealthy fat and very low in cholesterol.

My local Cabelas used to sell Ostrich meat sandwiches in their restaurant. As you said, the meat is very good.

you can make holsters out of Ostrich.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
I actually shot one once when I was a cop. One of the older guys came by after I shot it and he called someone to come get it, he told me the meat was a delicacy.

By the time I got downtown, the Chief had printed out a large ostrich target with points..this was maybe 15 years ago...last year my old captain sent me a tee shirt with a ostrich on it....whenever an article anywhere in the news comes up I get a buncha emails or FB posts asking if I know anything about it

And since this is a gun forum, I used a Bushmaster AR15 with a 16” heavy barrel (colt Leo clone) with Remington PSP 55grain bullets. I put three into the body cause I don’t know ostrich anatomy.

So, how do the boots fit?

What you want to avoid is that dinosaur foot with the big toe nail…

Stoopid Berd

I put that on my list of things never to fuck with a long time ago. I saw a video of one killing a lioness and figured if she got the business, what could it do to me.

Any big-ass bird, Emus, Cassowaries, they will all completely destroy you if given the opportunity.

There used to be a large ostrich ranch about 1/2 way between Tucson and Phoenix. Folks could stop and feed them and take pictures. I have no idea if it is still in operation.

Go pee before watching this. You have been warned...

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Originally posted by trapper189:
10mm.

Is your intention to kill the planet too?

I know they are alien looking bastards, but until Elon Musk builds the Big Space Ship to take us all away, we need to be judicious in our use of the 10mm.

Guajolote Grande…

(They are dangerous, and there’s a S TX joke/legend about Guajolote Grande…)

I wonder if this trick also works with a cassowary? The cassowary is a lot like an ostrich but with the addition of a velociraptor like claw.

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Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
There used to be a large ostrich ranch about 1/2 way between Tucson and Phoenix. Folks could stop and feed them and take pictures. I have no idea if it is still in operation.

Passed it many times. Right by Picacho Peak. For the unknowing, Picacho in Spanish is Peak, so, in English it's Peak Peak

Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Rance.

Allegedly by Ronin1069

A male ostrich can be a very dangerous animal. My parents owned an ostrich ranch, sold before the bust.

The only way I ever got in a cage with one was with a 8 foot shepherds hook. You can manipulate the neck with the hook and therefore control the bird.

The forward kick with that big toenail can be deadly.

Yes, the meat is very lean and tasty.

Can't find the meme, so I recreated it.



I would NOT willingly mess with one of those.