Thread: Carcass etiquette

Originally Posted by Hugh Shields

Never in a waterway.
Goats and deer where they drop, roughly. On a farm I'll drag them into a gut or tomorrow and try to cover they with leave litter or loose soil. The farmers appreciate that effort.
I've got a funny thing I do with rabbits. Slip the knife up under the ribs and split them up to the chin. Turn them around and run the knife down the belly to the arse. Whip the two pieces of fur off the inside of both thighs, then stretch the pelvis open and crack the front t legs and ribs open. Then lay them on the ground like the capital letter X. It's like a smorgasbord of protein for a kahu, they are onto it by the time I've moved 50 - 100m. I think they recognize me and know the sound of a rifle means food! They leave nothing but the poo channel and sometimes the skin. Sometimes nothing. I once split about 20 rabbits and put them on one knob. Next morning there was this amazing sight of kahu circle like seagulls over a tip! 20 or 30 of them AMAZING sight!

I offered the carcasses to a lady for whom I was shooting rabbits for this purpose, I suggested she throw one out on her lawn same time each day and train the kahu, she firmly declined and suggested I could leave them further down the driveway, a few visits later and she changed to wanting them left at the front steps of the house.

kicked straight into the nearest hole,unless hunting on a private block with other instructions

yup bout it Yesmate thats what I do

Had to google Kahu

yes a neat raptor shared with Australia as they have same bird - Australasian Harrier Hawk - now if you want the neatest raptor we have look up Karearea our own little raptor NZ Falcon amazing bird beautifull only surpassed for speed by the peregrine falcon

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

yes a neat raptor shared with Australia as they have same bird - Australasian Harrier Hawk - now if you want the neatest raptor we have look up Karearea our own little raptor NZ Falcon amazing bird beautifull only surpassed for speed by the peregrine falcon

yeah quite familiar with both the birds....just the first time I had heard the Māori name for them used.

we have a little school and settlement out back of Taranaki Makahu white hawk ya learn something silly every day yuk yuk

The Buller or a tributary is fine... them giant buller slimy phiranas will have it gone by the next dawn.

If you're in a TB zone it's worth considering burying the offal pile and head, at least - especially with pigs. If the pig you shot was infected, the remains (especially lungs and lymph nodes) are a potential disease vector.

Keep it away from water ways out of respect for nature & other people, take as much meat as you can carry as not to waste to much of a resource, hang the vital organs in a tree to give it back to Maui as a sign of respect and a thank you to the land. I usually cover the carcass with fern leaves/branches to keep it out of site.