Piglet & 2 baby emus chase each other around the house:

[tblue37]

[Lisa0825]

1. SQUEEEE!!!

[grumpyduck]

2. Emus are cool.

I had a conversation (reading each other's thought bubbles) with one a few years ago. The thing was about my height and came up to about six feet from me.

Really interesting to read about them.

[wryter2000]

4. At a zoo one time

The emu came right up to the fence and stared at me the same way I was staring at him.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. I get the video is cute and all that but...

How does she keep farm animals from peeing and pooping in their favorite corners of the house? Especially birds. They don't care where they take a dump. Pigs are a bit cleaner but I would never let them in my house. That's what barns are made for.

There are some country people around here who bring in baby livestock and even grown animals they consider pets. But I never understood that mindset. The animals belong in their own house....the barn.

Though I do keep chicks in a box in my garage with a heating lamp until they are big enough to avoid preditors and run away from the bigger chickens. Even mice and rats can hurt baby chicks. When my step daughter saw the chicks in the garage she thought I was losing it. But a lot of small chicken farmers do this for a safe refuge until the chicks are bigger. But they are confined to a box and are not given free access to the house or even the garage. And their box is cleaned up daily.

I know people keep livestock as pets in their homes all the time but I couldn't take having to clean up after them all the time.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Miniature horses

Are considered service animals for disabled people like dogs are.
They are allowed on planes.They can be trained to be a very capable service animal. A horse can be taught to poop outside.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Yeah, I noticed my horses always pooped in one corner of the barn

Made it easier to clean up. Not cattle though. God I hated cleaning up cattle barns.

Never thought you could house train horses.

OMG, I just read an article on how to house train a bird. Well maybe those animals are already house trained.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. I raised a baby starling

And I trained him to only poop on some newspapers in the corner of the living room or when he's outside. He could poop in his cage too. I put him in his cage at night.

He never pooped anywhere else.
Never missed the paper.

Had a rat named ivory who lived on my shoulder. She never peed or pooped anywhere without chittering in a certain way in my ear. I would walk her outside she'd crawl down to my wrist hang her butt off the side and go poop / pee in the grass below. She could poop /pee in her cage too.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Wow, my chickens have some catching up to do.

Those chickens will poop anywhere. I use to let them run around the yard but I got tired of stepping into chicken crap. So, they are now restricted to a back field.