Some Facts You Should Know

Producing quality emu oil is, and always will be, expensive.  We could save some money by buying bulk emu oil from overseas emu ranches located in India or Australia instead of raising our own birds, but with 18 years in this business, we have learned that that is a bad idea. As the sayings go, you get what you pay for and you are what you eat.  At the Jurassic Secret Ranch, we raise hundreds of emus every year to supply our sales. For about the last 10 years, all of the emu oil we bottle and use in our product line has been from the birds grown on our family-run ranch in Ramona, CA.

Years ago, before we had enough of our own emu, we purchased oil from other sources. We discovered that some emu ranches that lived in areas where corn is abundant and cheap, would feed a diet of almost all crushed-corn.  This diet would produce pure emu oil, yet the oil had little anti-inflammatory properties and low absorbency.

Our emus are free-fed with the best nutritionally balanced food we can provide for them. As always, it is a natural diet with many ingredients that are free of added hormones, steroids or antibiotics. As we found when we purchased emu oil from different sources in the 1990s, the quality of emu oil varies substantially in its color, consistency and effectiveness. Recently, the emu industry (The American Emu Association), that I have been a member of since 1995, conducted an emu oil testing study- found that there are plant oils, oils from other species of animals, and diluted emu oil being sold and labeled as pure emu oil. (Please read the article from the AEA president).
 
At Jurassic Secret we will never compromise quality.