“There’s nothing more beautiful to me than the male ostrich standing upright, opening up his wings, and seeing that movement of the feathers. It’s something you don’t get with any other farmed animal,” says South African farmer Laubscher Coetzee.
A fourth-generation ostrich farmer in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn, Coetzee, 62, started out as a child, raising day-old ostrich chicks on his great-grandfather’s farm. Since then, his life and passions have been inseparable from the birds.
