I found this: "Once an Emu chick absorbs the yolk sac at about 10 days after hatch, these birds are very hardy and only require normal livestock hygiene and maintenance.... "We feed our emu chicks a special feed that has been prepared specially for us by Lanark Leeds Distributor. It consists of 18-20% protein pellet mixed with crushed corn, wheat and soya bean." I would dip his beak in some water and give him fresh water every day. Go to your feed store and see if they have anything that resembles the above formula and mix in some chopped greens. Sit with the bird and simulate picking at the food and greens. Show him how it's done. Show him every day until he gets it. Don't wait for the yolk to be absorbed. "Newly hatched chicks cannot regulate their body heat and need a source of warmth until 3 months old if the outside temperature is cold. Maintain temperature at 90 to 95 degrees F for the first 3 days after hatch. Decrease temperature 5 degrees every 2 weeks. In warm weather, use supplemental heat only at night. The heat source should be of adequate size for all chicks to get around it, and the pen area should be large enough so the chicks can get away from the heat to avoid overheating. Brooder boxes for chicks 1 to 3 days old are typically about 1 foot high and 2 x 3 or 3 x 4 feet in area per 10 chicks. Chicks may pile and smother one another. Avoid overcrowding, extremes of heat or cold and sudden frightening of the chicks. Piling generally becomes less of a problem after the first few weeks. The floor of the brooding area must be easy to clean and have good traction. Chicks can be moved to an 8 x 8-foot nursery pen at approximately 70 to 85 degrees F on day four and then into progressively larger pens. Encourage outside exercise periods and sunbathing starting at 5 to 7 days of age, depending on the weather. Separate juvenile groups by age and/or size into large communal pens (50 x 100 feet) or pastures. Grass usually survives well in emu pens except along the fence, where the birds' tendency to fencewalk kills it. Many farmers feed newly hatched chicks a mixture of chopped greens, a commercial starter crumble and a vitamin/mineral supplement. The greens are thought to attract the birds to the feeder and stimulate feed consumption. Water may be offered before food by about 12 hours. Grit is offered with the food although it is not necessary if feeding a processed commercial diet. Chicks are usually fed twice a day for about an hour. Diets are usually in a small pellet or large crumble form for chicks. Fiber content varies between 7 and 15 percent. Some nutritionists recommend fiber content between 5 and 10 percent. Diets with more than 25 percent protein (such as dog food and catfish chow) have been associated with growth problems in young emu. Breeder diets contain additional calcium, or calcium can be offered "free choice" in the form of oyster shell. Breeders that are too fat do not appear to reproduce as well as those in normal condition. Some emu producers prefer free choice feeding systems, while others prefer one to three daily feedings. However, multiple daily feedings provide a time for interaction with the birds, making it easier to detect illness and control an individual bird's weight." Good luck

go to a good nursery ... and find an equivalently sized plant.. and study the pot or the ball and burlap for how big a professional would do it ... that will clue you in to the MINIMUM size ... a little bigger never hurt ... before you go ... snip off a piece of yours from the rear .. and have the nurseryman ID the plant for you ... and then ask him what it is worth ... how fast it grows.. etc ... then go back home.. and consider the SCOPE of what you are thinking about doing ... versus the cost of what you are doing .... per 6 foot plant.. i could easily see 4 to 6 hours of intense extreme physical labor ... if you dig a 2 to 3 foot rootball .. will you be able to drag that 100 to 200 pounds of soil plus plant across your property ... etc ... again.. depending on the plant.. you may be able to invest 100 to 200 dollars in some decent plants for the back .. and just chainsaw these down to the ground ... and get the front of your house back ... on top of all that ... larger.. older plants.. have a much harder time dealing with the stress of moving them.. short of hiring big guys with big machines to do it right ... BTW... make sure you know where all your buried utilities are... its the old cost benefit analysis .... good luck with that .. lol when all is said and done... there is a big difference between what CAN BE DONE... and what SHOULD BE DONE .... yes its possible.. but should you do it... too much work.. and failure rate is too high ... i vote no ... be done with them ... good luck ken

I don't know about Shamrockin' and all of that but I did think about green all day long. I planted my grass seed!

"top of the morning to you." (reply)..."and the rest of the day to you friend" May we all have a safe and joyous day :) Laura