Thread: Deer taking over Lower Hutt

Originally Posted by TLB

Not the case for all of Hawkes Bay. Some of the areas that traditionally held the highest deer numbers out towards the Ranges etc probably peaked a couple of years ago.
Farms who never used to let people hunt are now letting people in. Others have given the deer a good tickle up and some have even got the chopper in. On some of the more open blocks the deer struggle to hide and can be controlled extremely effectively via a quick chopper flight.
Likewise some have just told hunters to shoot everything the see and it is amazing how quickly the deer population has dropped.
Deer aren't like goats.....they don't breed all that fast.

That's good to know, thanks for that. Great to hear logic is taking over as well, with farmers and hunters working together. Now it's time for us coastal guys to get our act together. It's a shame anyone needs to resort to helicopters (unless it's forum members doing the work of course!).

Originally Posted by Magnus

Better deer then a town full of snowflakes rainbows and unicorns.

The deer probably make better conversation than the snowflakes et al!

All we need is hunters with Hollywood-style silencers and then it's free venison for all with enough gumption to collect it.

Originally Posted by XR500

1930's I believe we were a gnats cock away from introducing mountain lions until Federated Farmers or some such told the govt: fast deer, slow sheep...which one do you think the mountain lions will feats on.

Years ago I read an article where they tried to establish mountain lions in the South Island. But the 2 out of the 3 that were being imported died on the way over. Was pre-1900 IIRC.

Originally Posted by Magnus

Better deer then a town full of snowflakes rainbows and unicorns.

That all depends on how unicorns taste!

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Originally Posted by outdoorlad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/123...ke-a-hammering

Interesting ears on it?

That first deer has some Wapiti or Eastern Red Deer blood, (my pick is Wap in the first deer) so must have been some farm escapees around there. The second deer ( by the fence) likely has a little Eastern as well. The running spiker is a straight red. By Eastern I mean Hungarian, Yugo, Romanian type which have been imported for farming