What Is a Rhea Bird
Often Confused as Mini Ostriches or Baby Ostriches, Greater Rheas Are Actually a Different Species. Rheas and Ostriches Are Close Relatives of One Another, but...
Often confused as mini ostriches or baby ostriches, greater rheas are actually a different species. Rheas and ostriches are close relatives of one another, but if you put them side by side, you may notice some pretty dramatic differences. Rheas are much smaller in size compared to the ostriches.
Can you eat rhea eggs?
This week I’ve been eating…rhea eggs
What is worth knowing is that they produce eggs, massive ones. A large one weighs about 2lb and is roughly the equivalent of 10 hens’ eggs. Eye-watering for them, but an interesting meal for us.
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How many eggs does a rhea lay?
Females lay their eggs—one every other day for a week or ten days—in a ground nest of the male’s design. Several females deposit their eggs in the same nest, which may hold 50 eggs or more. The male rhea incubates the eggs of all its mates for six weeks and cares for the newly hatched young.