Thread: Should the Pukeko have its gamebird status removed in the North Island?

Theyre a mongrel round her, noisy buggers

Originally Posted by Pointer

Pooks, Poo Cackers, blue pheasants, Call them what you will - have exploded in the last 10 years. Is it time we knocked them back?

Yep, kill em all. Local F&G had a drive on a single property here and got over 4 hundy in 5 hours. Cockie reckoned they were just as thick as before the next day.

Geese , pukes ! what's would be next parries ?

leave the Game status on them

Parries need to be classed as pest heaps of damage down here but I don't mind the phone calls "Kill em Dundee"

I have seena drastic reduction in their numbers around my place ever since they came up and killed some chicks. I live near a wetland area and there used to be a plague of them but I thinned out about forty last season so numbers are down and about to decrease further at parrie weekend which allows us to shoot then for a week. They are also a pest at out local golf course, ranger gave us a permit to shoot them last summer and it included using rifles so we took about another forty but they have come back to similar numbers this year.

Kill them means more ducks and less damage too land crops /pastures etc

I've noticed numbers have jumped up in areas where there is pheasants and quail which is a concern....I keep seeing groups of 4-5 Pukekos walking along the grass patches on the motorway too....

Pukekos everywhere...

Ran one over on SH27 year before last. Glad the ute has bullbars

Would need to check dates etc but i'm sure they have a longer in season time from the likes of duck shooting opening. need to shoot more in season, then no one can disagree. They are up in numbers for sure.

my cockie is close to Ellesmere and he knocks them over whenever. They rip open all the silage bales, shit all over his hay and are a complete nuisance when there are 50 or 60 around at one time.

Originally Posted by Baz

Would need to check dates etc but i'm sure they have a longer in season time from the likes of duck shooting opening. need to shoot more in season, then no one can disagree. They are up in numbers for sure.

they are fair game for a week starting parrie weekend. hopefully, like the spur winged plover, they get removed from protection schedule and we can bang on them anytime. certainly are in massive numbers in areas around here. I have also noticed more ducks around the wetland this summer and even saw a bittern for the first time so maybe that is down to having less "pooh kakers" haha

Geese , pukes ! what's would be next parries ?

i voted yes but like you munnsey im sceptical of the motives .tho to me its a travesty that pooks are in and the canada goose is out.
could be worth a trial in the north island they seem to do better up there.surely our 3 month season is enough to keep threm in check here ??
organisedd hunt should be given a seasons crack rather than straight into declassifying ,as much as i dislike them, the motives and precedent set by the geese then them might be hard to turn back

Reality is that most people don't shoot Pukeko in season and then wonder why the numbers get up.

are they any good eating?