Thread: Stewart Island deer pose threat to critically endangered southern dotterel

https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-ti...aland-dotterel

I can hear the green rain from here.

load of horse shit.
I would imagine that the poison they drop to get the deer would be more of an issue than the deer themselves

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

I can hear the green rain from here.

Will it nuke the Dotterels as well?

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

Will it nuke the Dotterels as well?

To stop dogs raiding chook nests we use mustard injected into them, curry would be a good deterrent for deer raiding nests...and adds nice flavour to offal.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

Will it nuke the Dotterels as well?

Of course it will but there are 170 of them and DoC will probably be happy killing 100 to prove a point.

Please tell me that the DOC man has one hand down the front of his trousers when he states " the deer eat Dotterel chicks"

Originally Posted by tetawa

Please tell me that the DOC man has one hand down the front of his trousers when he states " the deer eat Dotterel chicks"

He would definitely have been making hand motions as if feeding chooks when he said it.

Originally Posted by tetawa

Please tell me that the DOC man has one hand down the front of his trousers when he states " the deer eat Dotterel chicks"

No, it is a strange but true fact that deer will eat chicks to get the nutrients they need for antler growth.

Originally Posted by Rushy

No, it is a strange but true fact that deer will eat chicks to get the nutrients they need for antler growth.

Gee, after 60 years of hunting it's the first time I've heard that.

Originally Posted by tetawa

Gee, after 60 years of hunting it's the first time I've heard that.

I saw it on some documentary a few years ago.

Originally Posted by Rushy

No, it is a strange but true fact that deer will eat chicks to get the nutrients they need for antler growth.

For fucks sake don't tell the Koreans, they will bypass the velvet and go for the dotterels

I have seen red deer eat ducklings and a hedgehog eat baby turkeys that had been mowed with an orchard mower

I would like to see the video or photos. Crock of shit.

Originally Posted by Rushy

No, it is a strange but true fact that deer will eat chicks to get the nutrients they need for antler growth.

Instead of the green rain DoC could do a flyover and dump a load of day old chicks...yellow rain