Thread: TB in possums - not many if any

What (1080) toxicity are those baits?

0.15%ww. The analysis applies in this example to the intended drop in the Auckland water supply catchment in the Hunua's. As proposed, it is doomed to fail.

They claim to be targeting rats, possums and mustelids, but the bait loadings are to target deer, which they have stated as "preventative incursions".

Incidentally kimjon, when I had to carry out many heavy objects, whether traps or animals I (and All others I know) carry by stages and by leapfrogging the loads. Traps don't weigh 3/4 kg anyway, and seldom ever placed at 25 m intervals, usually much greater intervals of in groups. Cyanide is very light.

It is illegal to target deer with 1080 as it is too cruel a death, hence why when they target deer they say they are targeting smaller pests.

One of my cobbers who is a vet and anti 1080 says deer and the like just curl up and go to sleep then die.
I have no idea as I have never seen a deer dying from 1080.

I remember seeing around 10 dead deer 3 days after a drop in the Landsborough that appeared to do just that.
The week before we counted 42 deer on the same flat a couple hours before dark. To my knowledge the place has never recovered deer wise.

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I have only seen a couple and they most certainly didn't look to have died in their sleep.

Ones I have seen have kicked themselves in the guts, bled from mouth and nose and thrashed the ground while dying.

As far as I know, deer have been in the Hunua's since I was at high school early 60's and some culling took place around then.