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ATTA: Ratite Production: Ostrich, Emu and Rhea - Introduction to ratite production as an alternative livestock enterprise, pasturing, and resources.
Biosecurity and Disease Prevention for the Ratite Grower - Management techniques that can help reduce the likelihood of disease introduction and spread on the farm.
Al-Hassan Ratite Farms - Features Information about livestock, products, export markets and husbandry, with photographs and contact details. Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Ratite Nutrition and Feeding - Recommendations for diets.
Running Bird Ranch - Offering ostrich, emu, Caiques, and Jack Russell Terriers for sale. State of the art ratite and exotic facility. Located in Geneva, Florida, USA.
Year 5 Australian Animals - A report by a student tells about their habitat and interesting habits.
Emus - Several pictures with descriptions of the birds.
Emu - Information about where they live, what they eat, and what they look like.
Birds: Emu - Contains a physical description and how they reproduce, plus keeper commentary and conservation information.
Wikipedia: Emu - Encyclopedia article talks about the adaptations of this bird.

Pachyornis - The genus Pachyornis is an extinct genus of ratites from New Zealand which belonged to the moa family. They are the largest genus of moa, containing 3-5 species, and are part of the Anomalopteryginae or Lesser Moa subfamily.
Ratite - A ratite is any of a diverse group of large, flightless birds of Gondwanan origin, most of them now extinct. Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their sternum and, lacking a strong anchor for their wing muscles, could not fly even were they to develop suitable wings.
Kiwi - A kiwi is any of the species of small flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the genus Apteryx (the only genus in family Apterygidae). At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites.
Carinatae - In phylogenetic taxonomy, the Carinatae are considered the last common ancestor of Neornithes (living birds) and Ichthyornis (an extinct seabird of the Cretaceous). Defined in this way, the group includes all living birds, including ratites (ostrich, emu, etc.