Why don’t more ranchers in the southwest start raising ostriches? You can raise them ...?

ADDING AN UPDATE AT THE END. Texan here. Where I live, decades ago there was an ostrich ranch. It was a local tourist attraction, with people stopping by to look at the ostriches. However, wh…

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