For health conscious individuals who want THE Natural Alternative, EMU meat provides better nutrition while being easy and fast to prepare. It offers taste appeal with appetite satisfaction and is recognized as a healthier red meat by the American Heart Association. Emu meat is heart healthy meat.

Unlike other choices, EMU meat:

• Provides better health benefits than traditional meat proteins – even chicken or turkey.
• Offers superior nutrition – best in 15 of 20 essentials according to USDA
• Absorbs seasonings better than most meats
• Is raised free-range with no hormones, steroids or antibiotics

More emu meat facts:

• Today's health conscious consumers are discovering emu meat. The red meat is an excellent alternative for health-conscious consumers who love the taste of traditional red meat, but desire lower cholesterol, fat, and calories.
  
  EMU MEAT LOWER IN FAT, HIGHER IN PROTEIN AND OTHER NUTRITIONAL NEEDS when compared with bison, venison, elk and ostrich. Additional comparisons found emu meat lower in fat than chicken, turkey, pork and beef.
  
  Some say emu meat is a nutritional goldmine. Others call it the super food of the New Millennium.
  
  
• The tenderness and texture of emu meat enable it to be prepared in a variety of ways. It is best prepared lightly grilled, pan fried, or sautéed.
• Chefs of Five Star restaurants praise Emu meat for its ability to absorb a variety of spices and flavorings in preparing gourmet dishes.
• Emu meat is a low-fat, low-cholesterol meat (85 mg/100 g); despite being avian, it is considered a red meat because of its red colour and pH value. The best cuts come from the thigh and the larger muscles of the drum or lower leg.

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It is higher in protein, vitamin C, and iron than beef, lower in cholesterol than chicken. Since Emu can be raised naturally, the meat contains no chemical additives. Emu meat gives red meat lovers what they want and health-conscious consumers what they need.

Emu, THE Natural Alternative Nutritional Comparison of Ground Meats

Serving size: 100 grams cooked (approximately 3.5 oz)

(gm=grams, mg=milligrams, mcg=micrograms, Kcal =kilocalories)

100 = Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison, June, 2000 Alternative Meat Study funded by USDA

200 = Source: United States Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database for Standard Reference

300 = percent of fat composed of saturated fatty acids

400 = Based upon 2000 calorie diet

500 = Reference Daily Intake (National Academy of Sciences)

Leather and leggings:

Emu leather is an attractive full-quelled pattern that comprises 100% of the durable hide which has a natural beauty of its own. This unique leather is capable of accepting many dye colors. It is one of the most attractive leathers currently being utilized in the fashion industry. Supple, beautiful and exquisitely detailed, emu leather is a top choice of many designers selecting dramatic reptilian textures for their products. Emu body leather has a distinctive quill design which covers the entire hide. The leather is soft yet strong, supple yet durable. Emu leather is well suited for embellishing designer apparel, boots, wallets, handbags, hair accessories, jewelry and many accessories. Emu leather is considered Breathable Leather. Emu leather is very easy to work with.

Emu Leggings (leather from the emu legs) is thicker than the body leather and similar in appearance to crocodile skin. The leggings have value as a trim in clothing and on accessories such as belts, watchbands and wallets as well as on clothing. Like the hide, they can be dyed a variety of colors.

Current uses of emu leather include the production of leather accessories such as checkbook covers, wallets, purses and similar items. The use, particularly of the leggings, as clothing accents, is not as widespread as the industry would like to see, but is improving. The body leather has great potential in the production of light leather clothing.

A raised area around the feather follicle, which produces a distinctive patterned surface, characterizes the emu body-skin.

Emu Feathers: The emu feather is unique as being the only feather in the world with two feathers coming from a single quill. These feathers will vary in size from 2" - 18", average length 6". Colors will range between tan and brown tones. Dark tips are common. Shorter feathers from the body are soft and slender while the tail feathers are longer, stiffer and slightly wider.

All birds have feathers. There are two types of feathers, contour and down.

Down is a small, soft feather found beneath the outer feathers of ducks, geese and other waterfowl. Down has no central shaft. The silky fibers of down grow outward from a common center.

Contour feathers are the large feathers that cover the wings, body and tail of birds. There is a strong, flexible center shaft. The lower part of the shaft is called the quill. The upper part of the shaft is called the rachis. It supports the vane. The vane is the flat part of the feather. Most vanes are made up of tiny barbs or hook which hold the vane together.

If you were to look at a cross section of a duck feather under a microscope, you would see that it has these tiny barbs which interlink and hold the vanes of the feather together, making it stiff and helping to keep it's shape. Emu feathers do not have these tiny barbs making them stiff. For this reason, emu feathers are much softer and flexible than most other bird feathers.

Another difference in emu feathers is that all emu feathers have a primary and secondary feather coming out of the same shaft.

Feathers on an emu range greatly in size and texture. The smallest emu feather may only be an inch long and very soft while the longest feathers are 18 inches or more and feel like straw.

They all have the double plume, or two feathers coming out of one shaft.

As you can see from the picture to the left, the quill of an emu feather is very tiny - you would never be able to use it to hold ink the way our ancestors did with goose or ostrich feathers. Even though we cannot use emu feathers to write with, we can use them for other things.

Historically the feathers were used in the hats of the Australian Light horseman during World War I.

Emu feathers are used in fishing lures, clothing accents, fans, wall hangings, flower arrangements, hats, pillows, mattresses and many other things. Use your imagination; what could you do with an 18" emu feather and some feathers 6" long?

The potential for these feathers has now expanded. They make an attractive packaging alternative to Styrofoam or paper and are perfect for use in quilts because of their natural insulating qualities. The feathers (as seen in the opposite photo) can also be put to artistic use by fashion designers.

Toenail: Toenails are used in jewelry settings and worn as lucky charm.

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Emu Bones: are a more specialized product, but are used by many artists across the world in natural designs. Some of our customers paint scenes on the flat breastbone of the emu; others use the ribs with the feathers and other items from nature in wall hangings.

EMU Egg Shells: Emu eggs are large, equivalent to about 12 chickens eggs. They can be used for eating or in cooking. As emus start lying just before Christmas there are often a few eggs available as something different for your Christmas baking.

Emu eggshells are dark green, not unlike an avocado in appearance. They have 3 different colour layers and can be carved down through the colors to make pictures and patterns in the shell without using paint. These make excellent gifts and are different.

Blown emu eggshells also available all year round for you to carve your own designs.

Eye balls: for eye surgery. Almost similar to human eyeball, so students practicing surgery can do so on emu eyeball.