Sister lives in Queenstown.. often sends me photos of goats roaming the streets. Todays effort...
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Sister lives in Queenstown.. often sends me photos of goats roaming the streets. Todays effort...
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Yeah, they are a major problem for the locals. I know some professional pest guys who often end up shooting them in the suburbs with suppressed .22s.
It's only Queenstown...raises the IQ tremendously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Lol
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Haha. Damn right!Quote:
Originally Posted by outlander
There are a number of small herds living on the outskirts of town which consistently make a nuisance of themselves. As Dama said they do get culled from time to time but their proximity to property definitely makes them hard to eliminate completely. As you can imagine, rolling up and shooting that goat in the photo is only going to result in a guest appearance before a judge... so the goats live on. The irony is there are very few left in places we can go shooting but you don't have to go far from home to see small mobs that you'd LIKE to shoot, but can't.
I do enjoy watching them though. The recent mating season during lockdown was extremely humorous.
Are they Aussie goats?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by outlander
No, definitely not, otherwise they'd all have been shot by now!
Now if only it was a convertible with the top down.... thinking porche / ferrari / merc etc
Obviously fake news.
Jacinda has put all the out of work air hostesses into pest control and wilding pine control.
If this is actually a real picture I expect all those goats and pines will be gone by the end of the week because anytime I have flown those girls and guys have been super efficient at getting me a scotch on the rocks.
I almost hit one with the rental car when I was driving along the lake a few years ago.
Yeah, drunk air hostesses are a real danger to road traffic down here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock
:)
I've seen small mobs beside/crossing the Glenorchy road a few times too, there are obviously plenty of them around.
Are we talking about goats or still air hostesses?
There used to always be a few on the road edge at the single lane bits on the way to Glenorchy. Seen cars written off cos the goats walk out onto the road just up from the meg, pig rooting on the road edge at the same spot, also on the road edge along the lake up from Clyde.
I frequently see goats, the odd pig and occasional fallow deer on the road between Clyde and Cromwell, day and night.
Queens B day weekend we went on the gondola early in the morning got a surprise to see 2 fallow & a bunch of goats on the way up .
I've seen deer under the gondola. I assumed they were farmed animals?
Nar those fence lines you see under the gondola aren’t to keep animals in they are to stop a carriage from bouncing down the mountain should 1 come loose !!!
Next time you drive from Cromwell to Queenstown up the Kawarau gorge, check out the goats on either side of the river. All black on the far side and all white on the road side. I'm not sure if its apartheid or if they're just playing a different sport...
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Originally Posted by Mauser308
Hahahaha.
Everybody has a kink. :)
There's a resident mob of 8 goats not far from home and I spent a few wasted hours during lockdown keeping track of their movements in the spotting scope. A young nanny came on heat and so began the fighting between the 3 billies who wanted to get a leg over. The guys battled it out for 7 or 8 days while the young lady played hard to get. Eventually the dominant male managed to keep the other blokes at bay for long enough to pay the young lady some attention. There was lots of necking, licking, nudging and pitiful mewing while he begged for her pleasure. This went on for another 4 or 5 days. As soon as the dominant male turned his back for 2 seconds one of the other blokes was in like Flynn. The lady was no tramp and held her honour. The physical attention escalated. The blokes got horribly frustrated, then angry, more fighting, more attention, more frustration... and still the lady held her head up. It was bloody funny and I couldn't help but feel for the guys... it was just like in the human world.
Such was my entertainment for much of April.
I bet they were smoking, swearing and drinking gin and coke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boaraxa
We have a Wiltshire ram who basically turns into a camel when frisky. Bugger lifts his head straight up, sticks his tongue out and makes fizzy, blowing and spitting noises while running around erratically... these antics perplex the wife no end. As long as she does expect me to do all this, I'm fine with it!Quote:
Originally Posted by planenutz
Speaking of goats, does anyone remember the big white billy goat that used to hang out on the Hutt side of Ngauranga Gorge in Wellington? About halfway down the gorge. As a young teenager it felt like that thing lived there for years. Every time we drove into town, there he'd be, way out on the middle of the cliff face. Early/mid 1980's.
Does Queenstown car insurance exclude goat hoof panel damage? Or is it an optional extra?
Man thats a job id love to do, load up the 10-22 and 300blk and lemme at them
Like killing then, do you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
In the 90s we would call up the police station to let them know that we were going to slay goats along gorge Rd to authers point. We would have a good old fashion bomb up, no suppressors back then, most shot out the window of the car and no one would care....... Those were the days
aha, Watched a couple of black ones across the river from the Meg, Queens BirthdayQuote:
Originally Posted by Dama dama
Was trying to work out if they were fallow or goats
Goats were wandering around the bush edges under the gondola 30yr ago.Stinking bloody things.Use to shoot them across the river up from the meg,good fun with the 308.
Classic so did iQuote:
Originally Posted by Trout
I like problem solving and suppressed subsonic guns that don't disturb othersQuote:
Originally Posted by outlander
Like sucking cock?
Let em be....I'm sure the Sage will sort them out....
Never tried...whats it like?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
Jacinda goats!Quote:
Originally Posted by Finnwolf
