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

Originally Posted by smidey

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

Is Northland/Auckland getting a parrie weekend this year? The F&G site is still talking about last years one.

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

are they any good eating?

Like most things, it depends on the age. The breast slice up is nice.

Parrie weekend for northland is 22-23 feb

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

are they any good eating?

They make a not bad soup , boil them use the stock and shread the breast meat .

They have a lot of sinue (spelling) don't they?

*Sinew Tobes

Originally Posted by upnorth uplander

Parrie weekend for northland is 22-23 feb

yeah and we get to shoot the pooh kakas from 22 Feb to 2nd March. I shall be out every evening of those calendar days.

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

true barefoot just like swans then everyone gets up in arms when they have control shoots?/

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I didn't even realise they were a game bird!

Im with you on that one was on the understanding if they were being a pest you could blow them sky high

i voted yes they should stay, personally I think more will get shot by them staying on the shedual
permits for out of season shooting are easy to get, not that most bother

westcoast F&G frequently have drives on em.
Dean Kelly the manager told me a tale of a cockie who rang him with a major Puke problem ,that wasnt cured by said cockies habit of using his .270 to remove them from trees(why am I not suprised ;expensive ?????) dean got it sorted(with DOC coast style), organised some shooters who promptly went through the farms pukes like shit through a goose.
Those who've done the grey valley duckhunt will recall Deans call for shooters to go to a well known property in the upper reaches of the ahaura valley and deal to the blue bellied bastards!this is in place of church on the sunday morning and the inevitable shennanigans on the saturday night at the moonlight hall.
me Ill smack em if i get a chance,as ive a bloke at work who luvs puke soup!

Originally Posted by kotuku

cockies habit of using his .270 to remove them from trees(why am I not suprised ;expensive ?????)

Nah not expensive, just couldn't hit them

the wierdest thing in the north island was the bastards seem to know when we decided to make a day on them?
around otaki and the kapiti cast they,re as thick as flies

it seems relatively easy to get a permit to despatch them out of season if they genuinely are a nuisance. Personally i'd shoot more if it was an option at all times.

no tobes ,he just reckoned it was a bloody expensive way to fertilise his paddocks ,tho Iheard a mate of his describe it as exploding like a shower of shit with the nutrition of bloody&bone!
i had one 30 odd yrs ago that used to dance to my tune of .22rounds landing at its feet ala the old westerns. alas one day it didnt piroquette quick enough and ran into a.22 dynapoint round.
Alas life aint all beer &skittles!!