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Show Sunday, October 21, Business 1990 The Daily Herald. Provo, Utah D6 Yes, the Sorensens of Scipio really are raising 'Big Birds' from them. Ostrich skin luggage, purses, briefcases and other fashion accessories are also marketed. By KEN RAND Herald Correspondent You are not seeing things: Those really are four ostriches in a pen in the backyard of Myrtle Soren-sen'- s home in Scipio. Udell Sorensen, also of Scipio, is mother helping his raise the two males and two females. Two were hatched in and two in May. The older two! stand over six feet tall. Their parents stood over nine feet tall, v Sorensen said she got the notion to raise ostriches when she first saw them during a visit to her granddaughter in South Jordan last March. She picked up her two pair Sept. 12 in Logan. They had been shipped from California. The feathers are also used as elegant clothing accessories and as dusters. Each football-size- d ostrich egg is equivalent to about Fe-bru- 32 chicken The huge birds eat a mixture of rabbit and alfalfa pellets Sorensen buys from IFA. Ostrich pellets are not yet available at the feed store. The Sorensen ostrich farm is apparently only the fourth in Utah. The others she knows about are in Logan, South Jordan and Mt. Car-mJunction. An article in the Sept. 1990 edition of The Ostrich News about the el American Emu f Xk" Sir, , i, Association, formed in May 1989, demonstrates the growth in the big bird breeding industry. Emus are similar to ostriches, only slightly smaller. Emus are native to Australia while ostriches are native to east Africa. Both have similar marketing characteristics. Both are viewed as "alterna - ft 20-4- 48-5- A old calf will sell for $300-60Sale price of an emu chick is $1,500 plus. th eggs, Sorensen said. The female lays an egg about every other day, in the spring and summer. They begin producing eggs at about two years of age. The idea is to raise and sell ostrich chicks. Sorensen, who has lived in Scipio for 60 years, has never done anything like this before. "No, but I'm an adventurous person," she said. are marketOstrich ed in several ways, Sorensen said. "They make a red meat similar to beef meat. Ostrich meat, as I understand it, is the lowest in cholesterol of any meat." An adult ostrich will weigh 500 pounds. The skins are marketable. Tony Lama Boot Company makes boots tive livestock." The article, written by Al Jodoin, compared the economics of cattle breeding to emu breeding: Cows produce one calf a year with a nine month gestation. Emus produce 0 chicks a year, with a 2 day gestation. 0. Gross yearly income, the article concludes, for cattle is $300-60For emus, it is $30,000-$60,00- rr a y ""' "z "J " """"" "" r nrir ri$' "' 4j4J I The Emu Association has been getting 10 to 20 calls or letters a day requesting information about big bird breeding, the article said. Emu prices have doubled since $ search awards and providing incentives for conversion of research results into commercial applications," said Director Stan Nakano of the SBA Salt Lake City district. Under the program, companies can be eligible for two awards. The first award is up to $50,000 to test the feasibility of proposed concepts. The second award, up to $500,000, may be issued to allow for the to pursuit of the technological development of their concepts. These receiving grants from the ProvoOrem area are: ICD Corp., of Provo, which received a multimedia approach to teaching sciences to Spanish-speakin- g junior high students with limit y. The SBIR proposals were identified as those that offer the greatest potential for meeting U.S. government's research and development needs. "The program is aimed at stimulating techonological innovations, by encouraging qualified small high-tec- h firms to compete for re According to a brochure Sorensen has answered some of the most commonly asked questions about raising ostriches, "God endowed the ostrich with few activities. They walk, run, sit and dance but mostly they "peck." They are very curious and when they arrived at their new home, they will peck at everything." Do not wear a watch near an ostrich. And, no, they do not bury their heads in the sand when frightened. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) transferred - The proficiency; $30,000. Enyon Battery Co., of Provo, r, for research in the high-powe- short-puls- e battery; $50,000. IBC Advanced Technologies, of Orem, for monitoring of Anions (the negatively charged atom) and cations (a positively charged ion); $49,755. Multilayer Optics & Technology, of Provo, received two awards one for the study of . artificially structured produced by atomic layer eptaxy (overmulti-laye- rs growths of a crystalline substance; $49,708. And, study of a compact, lazer driver and inexpensive composites; $50,000 While SBA does not provide subsequent funding for X-r- the youth, puts across a positive image of law and enforcement, and the responsibilities of being a citizen," said Doug Bodrero, public safety commissioner. "We plan to offer the same program that allows a law enforcement officer to visit a school classroom at least three times a year," said Tibby Milne, the Council for Crime Prevention's executive this program to the state." The foundation funded the Officer Friendly program since its inception in Chicago in 1966, Morris said of Foundation has its "Officer Friendly" program, including trademark, logo and name, to the Utah Council Monday. 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