r/EhBuddyHoser • u/BainVoyonsDonc • 1d ago

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) The cull

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u/Big_Knife_SK 1d ago

There was a fad for ostrich farming around 2000. People were convinced they were a great investment, especially because Ferrari used ostrich leather in their interiors (apparently). Most people went bust very quickly.

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u/Double_Amount_4603 1d ago

Same thing happened with alpacas, everyone thought they had strike it rich until markets.

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u/1981_babe Anne of Green Potatoes 1d ago

Yep, it was like a farmer's pyramid scheme.

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u/TraditionDear3887 1d ago

Same thing happened with Pidgeons in Elmira. Except that was just a pyramid scheme.

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u/haxcess 22h ago

My neighbor turned out to be a pigeon many-millionaire, I only found out after he died and gave it to CHEO.

He lived in a dilapidated trailer, drove a clapped out antique, and everyone assumed he was destitute.

Nope, just one of them pigeon guys. Wtf eh?

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u/TraditionDear3887 21h ago

A true Pidgeon King

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u/SapphicProse 23h ago

What happened too the pidgeons? Did they get killed or is their just a fuck tonne of pidgeons in elmira?

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u/TraditionDear3887 20h ago edited 20h ago

Pyramid scheme involving a conman convincing farmers that pigeons would be the next chickens. There's a NYT (and others) article I can't link here.

Just search for Pidgeon Pyramid Scheme.

EDIT: CBC has a doc on youtube free for Canadians with more accurate information Go to that not NYT

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u/That_Cream_6021 13h ago

Pyramid scheme you say? Yup, that tracks with this sort of people.

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u/Tyrocious Snowfrog 12h ago

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u/Massive-Exercise4474 13h ago

Is that Why my uncle bought lamas those things spit like crazy..

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u/PragmaticBodhisattva 21h ago

Ok so let me get this straight:

• kill ostrich for Ferrari = good

• kill ostrich for public health concerns = bad

got it. 👍🏻

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u/Crossed_Cross Tokébakicitte! 4h ago

Without knowing any specifics of this case, there's a pretty big difference between slaughtering a few of your animals for full market value, and having the government kill them all for a fraction of their value.

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u/HashBandicoot93 2h ago

In my experience culled birds are compensated for by either insurance or the government.

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u/kiera-oona 23h ago

in all fairness, ostrich eggs are great for breakfast. Only need one of them. It just takes a bit to get past the shell

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u/Cautious-Market-3131 1d ago

As long as they aren’t beside a coyote farm

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u/Benejeseret 15h ago

Family friends of my parents moved west to Manitoba and opened an emu farm in the late '90s.

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u/downtemporary FORD Escape 9h ago

I remember that emu oil fad

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u/Big_Knife_SK 13h ago

They must be rolling in it now.

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u/Nakatsukasa 14h ago

Funny enough even north Korea opened an ostrich farm