Thread: Hurunui dead geese

ABC article on it

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-...reak/103844240

PRODUCT INFORMATION
Pestoff Treated Wheat is a for the control of sparrows, pigeons, magpies, mynahs, and other grain eating birds in horticulture, domestic and industrial and agriculture areas. Safe to use and approved for use in New Zealand.
The Active ingredient in this product is Alphachloralose which is not a poison but a narcotic therefore it anaesthetises the brain rather than killing. Non target species can be revived in a warm place.

yes thats the product but I would be suprisd if that was the culprit in this case difficult to use works good on small birds we used it on feral pigeons on pea and sweetcorn crops I just don't think it would work well on a really big bird like a Canada

Maybe, maybe not. Delayed effect possible? Then there's the possibility of it being laid ose to the river as well.

could be there was a case in Tauranga on feral pigeons where some dropped into suburbs on way home to roost after ingesting it

Some years ago i was at an organised weekend hunt on mainly parries but also pukes and we were told if canadas were in range it was also a case of a 12guage enema
.Chatting to a cocky I know he said when using weedkillers in paddocks often hed find carcasses of parries and also geese and in his words "plough them in lessens me fertilser bill!
.Given this was primo dairy country anything that gutses itself silly on good dairy herd tucker was treated like cowshit on your gumboots.
BTW 200shooters took 860 birds that weekend over 80%of them parries .I bought half a dozen home and breasted them -fat as butter -if shot hadnt got em a heart attack was on the cards!!
goose shit is diabolical it kills burns grass its so toxic. Gadgetman may remember this .