Thread: The state of pest populations in NZ

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

What I know is that every farm inside this defined possum control area is legally obliged to use brodi or some other possum bait, applied 3-4 times per year. Which means we've got 26,000ha (including a very significant deer population) from which maybe there should not have any wild meat harvested?

I've had a bit of a read, seems brodi collects in the liver etc in highest percentages. Eating a small amount of meat excluding any offal should be no problem even if the pest had been eating small amounts of brodi. "should be" no problem....

Only if there's certain poisons that are not present in the area.

The guidelines for hunters is that brodifacoum should have an exclusion zone of 5 km and 6 months for pigs and slightly different for deer.

So it is possible to eat stuff from a brodifacoum area but I wouldn't risk it. And I wouldn't pay a premium for the venison if it had.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Only if there's certain poisons that are not present in the area.

The guidelines for hunters is that brodifacoum should have an exclusion zone of 5 km and 6 months for pigs and slightly different for deer.

So it is possible to eat stuff from a brodifacoum area but I wouldn't risk it. And I wouldn't pay a premium for the venison if it had.

It’s actually 3 years, for all critters, as it’s an anti colagulant it builds up in the system

Originally Posted by Fat ninja

It’s actually 3 years, for all critters, as it’s an anti colagulant it builds up in the system

That's MPI hunters guidelines.

3 years for commercial. Should have clarified