Thanx to Te Ferrarri we have our first lot of 25 pheasant chicks in the brooder, hope to do another lot before xmas and hopefully 1 lot in the New year.
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Thanx to Te Ferrarri we have our first lot of 25 pheasant chicks in the brooder, hope to do another lot before xmas and hopefully 1 lot in the New year.
Sounds like you are :D
Way to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
progress photos to hype up the forum members....
Awesome!!!
They are expecting big things from you mate! Even boosting the population before you get thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Toby
I have a contact who has some awesome birds if anyone needs to buy some.
Cheers. Happy
I am by default, since we got rid of the rats etc we have loads of little pheasant, brown and Cali quail chicks running round the park at the moment, neat little guys.
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Sorry for sideways pic, they never come out the rite way up wen using my phone
I was at the lookout on the weekend and had 6 cock birds calling from different parts of the parkQuote:
Originally Posted by Splash
great photo with some awesome looking chicks
one being you???Quote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
Have 100 odd in the brooders doing well, eggs in the incubator due to hatch early december. Saw a young hen in the garden this afternoon with a wild brood of at least 5 so hopefully a few more of the young hens we released here will also have chicks provided the neighbours cats dont find them first.
a nicely silenced .22 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
there have been a few unexplained missing moggies......were not far from the town boundary and get dumped cats too poor sods. Neighbour insists on having shed cats which reproduce at will....till they encroach here anyway
a live capture trap is the best iv found, works when you are sleeping nice bit of fish or cat biscuits in there and bobs you uncle.
then a lead pill,
I make an active attempt to not catch the nabours cats by not trapping the boundry near the houses but we live in an area known for dumping of cats by "locals".
243 also works well for the daytime ones
they catch on quick so they become quite challenging targets
I dont target the well cared for friendly neighbourhood cat but the mob of rampantly breeding ferals next door get a swift kind farewell often the best level of care they have had their whole existence.
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400 little fluffy bundles of joy. (photo courtesy Craig Carey).
Awsome Snuffit, we are a few years away from doing that many
atta boyQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
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Had to whack together another brooder and move a few birds that were getting picked on.
@Pointer had to take drastic action to avoid being a home wrecker to a hen in Minginui in the weekend.
From his actions i would say i would have been happily stoved into a bank as passenger than him hitting the chicks! " the future" he exclaimed once all were accounted for :D
Gibo, do you shoot gamebirds
Not yet :DQuote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
Funny how we will swerve to hit a rabbit, but risk passengers life and limbs for a hen and a few poults!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Me neither Gibo. I reckon we should give it a larrup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Me too! Cant be that hard can it? Hardest part would be trying to make sense out of these dog/bird people :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
You never willQuote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Theres room up north for opening Rushy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Dooooo itttt!!! Im gonna :DQuote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
You need to become one to understand one I guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Fair call!! That would be the second step for sure. Do I want to be one is the first :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Petros_mk
I will give it a go and see how it pans out
those of us who dont wear tweed are easy enough to understand
I get that, I thought Pointer was reasonablly abnormal.......so thats got to mean reasonable normal as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by teFerrarri
Nope... I think you got this one right...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
pointer is all f..... up but hes still a GC
and youre still trying ay bro, a few more seasons and we mite be able to call you a gamebird shooter too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Petros_mk
UU we can put them to work to built the maimai on the Northern side of the lake ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
Actually we have been thinking of leaving the boat up there so maybe built a cover for that instead, well for this year anyway?
+1 Have to agree with both points ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by upnorth uplander
looks like we need a weekend in Auckland to build a couple of maimais, all that is needed is a 1.2 x 2.4 open top blind. we shot 4 out of ours this year. build them here and then trailer them upQuote:
Originally Posted by Barefoot
