Thread: West Coast poison drop & no mention of repellant

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Does that look like a hard peice of land to trap and shoot instead of 1080. With a road and several tracks through it and all. Man this world is screwed

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2 things.
Repellent use seems to be tied to lobbying. Its expensive, but if its lobbied for it will more likely be used. The Tararua, Rimutaka and Haurangi operations over the next couple of years are all with repellent.
And this is an OSPRI/TB operation. Deer will be a by-kill, but not the target species. In any event, 1080 is not registered for use on deer so will not be used anywhere as a targeted/primary poison on them (thats not to say that in their operations DOC aren't quietly pleased when there is a deer by-kill).

And another annual dump further down the coast of around 20k ha @ Abbey Rocks.Although not renown as a deer spot.The minting machine printing dollar notes @ treasury must be on 24/7 shifts.

mates got a wee block not a million miles from there,the last big drop was 4-5 years ago and there is still bugger all animals around....well we cant find them anyway.

Teramakau otira and deception all before Christmas as well
Sucks big fat hairy ....

Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

And another annual dump further down the coast of around 20k ha @ Abbey Rocks.Although not renown as a deer spot.The minting machine printing dollar notes @ treasury must be on 24/7 shifts.

That place was a deer factory before the last nine aerial 1080 drops.

Deer repellent is actually very cheap. All it is, is dried blood or blood and bone - both bi-products of the meat processing industry.
I would guess that 50 kg added per tonne to the mix before it goes through the pellet extruder would be plenty enough.
If repellant is not being used it is because deer are being targeted.

Originally Posted by Puddleduk

That place was a deer factory before the last nine aerial 1080 drops.

But just as many coons and rats before those 9 drops.Oh well next year will round it out to an even 10

In 2019 the addition of deer repellent added 40% to te cost of production for 1080. Im not sure though if that was when it was sprayed on after making the pellet or how they combine it in to the manufacturing as they do now.

Originally Posted by Tahr

In 2019 the addition of deer repellent added 40% to te cost of production for 1080. Im not sure though if that was when it was sprayed on after making the pellet or how they combine it in to the manufacturing as they do now.

I would suggest there was some creative accounting going on

To be honest Tahr, I would be surprised if the cost of production of 1080 was a significant portion of the overall cost of the operation when you’re talking about many hours of helicopter operation.

In 2019 at Abbey Rocks they apparently laid 2kg of cereal pellets per hectare, and the pellets had 1.5 grams of 1080 per kg of pellets - so 3 grams of 1080 per hectare which is less than a teaspoon per hectare.

Sodium mono-fluoroacetate is not a complex chemical by any means. If you knew what you were doing you could make it in your kitchen. The main cost of producing it commercially will be in complying with red tape requirements.

Cereal pellets are also cheap to produce. You can buy a 20 kg bag of layer pellets for around $33 retail.

Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

But just as many coons and rats before those 9 drops.Oh well next year will round it out to an even 10

It's a wet and damp outfit so pellet effectiveness may be reduced. Should be coon and rat free if the stuff works after so many drops. Anybody know what the deer numbers are like now?

@Sauer that previous '19 top dressing was a typical govt dept fiasco.2 Squires and 2 500's & a 44 all flying off the same strip for 5 straight days.Not one of the dumb arse Doc lackies tipping the pellet bags into the hoppers noticed the pellets were disintegrating into dust.Bad factory run of bait.So of course green dust blown out in the rotor wash.Woops,oh well just repeat the drop all over again in the next fine window.Hey what's another $400k between friends

Originally Posted by Tahr

2 things.
Repellent use seems to be tied to lobbying. Its expensive, but if its lobbied for it will more likely be used. The Tararua, Rimutaka and Haurangi operations over the next couple of years are all with repellent.
And this is an OSPRI/TB operation. Deer will be a by-kill, but not the target species. In any event, 1080 is not registered for use on deer so will not be used anywhere as a targeted/primary poison on them (thats not to say that in their operations DOC aren't quietly pleased when there is a deer by-kill).

Agree with this, but suggest that further examination of the additional cost of using repellent could be warranted? We've been told its expensive, and no doubt the pricing of the original EPRO repellent reflected the work they had done to develop and test the product......but after that then pricing of almost everything in life is determined by the level of competetion and what the market will stand........ can't help wondering if DoC might also be 'quietly pleased' at the 'prohibitive cost' of repellent?