Reg Lindberg said the 204 ostriches were due to be processed for their meat when the floods hit early Sunday morning.
VALLEY MILLS, Texas — A Central Texas man says the devastating rain and flooding swept away 204 ostriches from his ranch early Sunday.
"We had taken them from eggs, hatched the eggs, nursed the babies all the way to grown animals," Lindberg said."Two hundred twenty to 250 pounds. That's a big loss, a tremendous loss." However, Lindberg says he's also retrieved two or three ostriches that washed up dead along the river banks. He said they were only able to track them down by"following the buzzards."
"It's just part of ranching, there's nothing easy," Lindberg said."There's a lot of money walking around there on two feet." "There's also some value in the abdominal cavity of these birds, in the fat," Lindberg said."There's two different kinds of fat in these birds, one that's healthy to eat and the other is for cosmetic use and medicinal purposes because it can penetrate the skin and reduce inflammation."
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