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Products are leather, meat, oil, feathers and eggs.
Production is still small, but increasing. Up to 30,000 birds may be processed in 1998. Ostrich oil has been largely overlooked by the South Africans. Industry challenges The industry s two greatest challenges are to develop new markets as other countries begin commercial production and to maintain the high value of its products as the overall volume of production increases. Animal husbandry Ostriches in Australia are usually managed intensively.