https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/mpi-de...allaby-control
Mighty expensive wallaby hunting at $153000 per wallaby :P
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https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/mpi-de...allaby-control
Mighty expensive wallaby hunting at $153000 per wallaby :P
Not surprised
They are obviously getting a ride to the sort of areas that they are turning up now.
I can understand plenty getting across the hydro dams up the Waitaki, but the other areas its not very likely they hopped their way there.
$34,000 spent on ground shooting..over 2 million on survelance...... and the numbers shot in canterbury.....the Timaru deerstalkers branch used to achive close to that on thier own each year....add in the number shot by aorangi recreation mob and it would make that number into chicken feed,private shooters far out shoot the goverment paid fellas and we get nothing for it and barriers put in way to doing it easier....closes seasons,no dog blocks,no using artificial lights just for 3.
oh and NO friggen gorse spraying along access tracks.....that would be $$$$ very well spent,cheap as chips for a whirly bird to fly along with spray gun out the side or a boom and keep a 10mtr strip clear...Ive spent 30 years keeping hook bush track open by hand,even asked DOC if they could spray it..no $$$ they said..
$2.3 spent just looking at Wallibies?
Fantastic!
they were in trotters gorge some time back...there are some by glenorchy...I believe....
Ive shot them within 10kms of Geraldine ..they do hop quite a long way,drought will push them further.
$28million is getting spent down here over 5 yrs to get rid of the roos.New fence from Lake Belmore to Lake Tekapo is going to be built sometime.Stop the roos getting into national parks.Interesting times ahead for the roos.
$34k on ground shooting (some of that my dad would have collected..)n and $2.3m on suits sitting in an office that wouldnt know what a wallaby looked like if it hit them in the face
Lots around hanging rock area,Kakahu forest fill of roos r too.
Certainly a good earner for local helicopter operators.
Im just gonna put it out there.........the fence wont work! And the majority of the $28m will be lost in compliance costs with fuck all actually spent on the ground. 6665 is a very accurate number too. Would be nice if they actually included the numbers shot by recreational hunters for free. Pretty sure it would exceed that number, our local DA deals to about 4-500, I know one landowner that was getting 80 per week, and the hunters on his place would be close to equalling that.
kakahu forest has SOME roos,wouldnt say its full of them...well 8 years ago when I got invite to spotlight in it we saw 4..all were shot.
I know 250+ A NIGHT is achievable with boring regularity....Quote:
Originally Posted by Husky1600#2
This is a good time to remind anyone with a wallaby problem on their farm or forest, go apply for P1 endorsement! Wallabies are recognised as our major emerging pest animal and the Regional Councils have been hassling the Police to get more semi autos back onto wallaby infested farms. So, if you have wallabies and want an AR15, go apply now. Conversely if you want an AR15, go buy a farm in a wallaby area.
The fence on the western side of the river is say nearly roos proof,odd rabbit hole.Only from Benmore to pukakie river road needs shut off,Marry burn stream and from Patterson ponds to canel and canel Bridge at Tekapo.Dont need millions for a new fence.
80 Hector of forest behind my house is being roo controlled this week in the darks hours by the local contractor with thermal gear.Be interesting on the numbers they find and destroy.20-30 max maybe?.
It wont cost $153000 per roo, that's for sure 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Fk id be out there my self.:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by yogi
They dna test wobblies that turn up in weird places. This is how they prove that some have been relocated from the North Island...via someone's car boot:omg:
The size difference would be a give away too.Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
We only have big jumpers down here.
I do find it hard to believe someone would purposely release roo's. Deer and pigs I can very much believe but roo's are not nearly as good eating.
My dogs love catching the wee ones we have up here. Be interesting to see how they'd react to the bigger onesQuote:
Originally Posted by Trout
They could provide some entertainment, But how do they taste ?
After seeing the amount of worms in the gut, I wouldn't even think about eating it nowQuote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
They will always be expensive to kill per animal in low density at the margin of the range, but it is good value to prevent range spread.
@Russian 22 People purposely release koi carp; so nothing would surprise me....Quote:
Originally Posted by Russian 22.
similar to hare...dark meat with blander taste,almost like lamb..... small ones are anyway..steaks are ok and the tils are great stew/casserole..as for worms,stop gut shooting them...Quote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
Big 20-25kg roo would just scratch your dog's eyes out or ripp his guts open.They are vicious barstards when cornered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve123
Retards!
Shotgun at short range best.
lead 36grm load of #2s perfect wobbly medicineQuote:
Originally Posted by Trout
Hey at least the council is being proactive instead of waiting till they r a problem
Perhaps someone needs to organise a Roo shooting night for the forum members.
I dont have any contacts for that.
Bring back the bounty. It’d be cheap at $100ea
Even in Cantab it costs over $700/kill
I tend to not eat the gut!Quote:
Originally Posted by yogi
Meat is good roasted, done in an oven bag.
It is money well spent. If a significant population gets established in Otago it will cost farmers and the economy 100's of millions. And then be a risk to Southland. Reporting and thinking about it as a cost per animal is dumb.
And anyone who has any awareness knows this. The article popped up elsewhere and unsurprisingly it is the unaccountable shit-stirring arm of a political faction being disingenuous for the sake of generating outrage. It is an election year after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Padox
There aren't any Bennetts wallaby in the NI are there? and no dama in the south so it would be pretty easy to tell if there had been a liberation between the Islands.Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500