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ORANGE JUICE The Heather's On Fire(Postcard (UK)) and Ostrich Churchyard (Postcard...
When the floodwaters spread across Wisconsin, state officials begged for help from Washington, but it's safe to say that none of them expected it would arrive by Greyhound bus at 3 a.m., wearing ostrich-skin cowboy boots and missing a suitcase. But then, few in Wisconsin or Washington knew James Lee Witt...
Construction magnate Daisuke Mizutani in 1989 bought half the Bordelon Breeders farm in Texas, one of the largest in the U.S., and Louisiana's Pacesetter Ostrich Farm will be the first to go public this month. Even cautious bureaucrats are falling in love with this ungainly bird. The Texas department of agriculture, which recently hired a full-time ostrich expert, has already made more than $1.2 million in low-interest loans to farmers in the booming industry, and projects that ostrich farming will pump nearly 5,000 jobs and $170 million into the state's economy by the year...
Such success stories have created a white-hot market for ostriches, with some investors plopping down $100,000 or more to start farms. Today nearly 20,000 ostriches grace about 2,000 U.S. farms, up from a handful of farms a decade ago. Imports of live chicks have soared 500% in the past five years. Little wonder. A fertilized ostrich egg fetches $1,500, and a pair of breeding adults goes for around $40,000. With female ostriches laying upwards of 80 eggs a year, it takes just basic math to calculate astronomical returns...
Unlike its avian peers, the ostrich spawns a variety of luxury products. Start with the meat, which aficionados liken in taste to beef tenderloin. At about $20 per lb., there's a wealth of cuts to be had from the average 400-lb. bird. Ostrich meat is healthful as well: half the calories of beef, one- seventh the fat and considerably less cholesterol, and it even bests chicken and turkey in those categories. Huntington's, a posh eatery in Dallas' Galleria, serves, among other ostrich specialties, a blackened fillet, an ostrich tortilla pizza and a hibiscus-smoked ostrich salad...