Thread: 1080 in Tararuas - When is safe?

Not knowing the specifics or the rules it sounds a lot different to our approach.
Australia used grain for pigs but in a controlled enclosure. To minimise non target exposure.
Baiting may take place in an area grazed by livestock so prevent ING sheep and cattle from accessing poison grain is paramount. Deer would have difficulty accessing poison grain.

We have a lot of flat country, open country etc. Not how I envisage New Zealand.

Meat baits for Foxes and Dogs are a minimum weight and size with a specific dose. A Dingo/Dog bait would not be lethal to a pig, A deer would not eat the meat and the dose rate would be a small fraction of the dose required to kill the Deer.

I've never been told about 1080 staying in bone marrow. I was trained in preparation of 1080 and the issue to end-users maintaining a training currency and learning from experienced researchers.

Not saying it doesn't happen but that new to me. Being an acute poison death occurs within about 4 hours. 1080 breaks down by microbial action so "baits" break down in soil or the body of a dead animal break down the residual poison. I'm not sure how much enters the bone of lethal dose is ingested causing death within 4 hours. That said a meat bait undercover will retain nearly 100% toxicity for some time.

NZ are applying it in a different capacity so I can't comment, I would be interested to see what the process is there as the target species and application are all different.