Thread: Ideas for catching wild chickens

Originally Posted by rupert

Don't think of eating them. I shot a few wild chickens for New Year's dinner some years ago. They were full of sinews, a bit like a pukeko. Cooked and tried to eat them but it was like eating wood. I did not have a pressure cooker at that time - might have been the answer.

Eel bait it is then

Originally Posted by rupert

Don't think of eating them. I shot a few wild chickens for New Year's dinner some years ago. They were full of sinews, a bit like a pukeko. Cooked and tried to eat them but it was like eating wood. I did not have a pressure cooker at that time - might have been the answer.

They do however make terrific stock to use as a base for something else!

When we need to get our free range girls in it's tempt in with bread like ducks at the pond then a fishing landing net with a decent length handle.

They will herd mostly into corners then scoop when they make a dart for it... That how we do it.Good luck..

Surprised no one has joked about spot lighting them.

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My old grandfather told me of a trick. Thread a hair form a horses main or tail through a raisin. Feed them some plan raisins then toss them the one with the hair. Once they swallow it they are so distracted by the hair in their throat you can grab them. Don't know if it works but give it a go & let us know.

Now with geese it's pork fat on a string. One swallows it & it comes out the other end pretty quick, then you have a gooses on a string, more than one if another then eats it. Sounds like bullshit that one.

Originally Posted by Hutch

My old grandfather told me of a trick. Thread a hair form a horses main or tail through a raisin. Feed them some plan raisins then toss them the one with the hair. Once they swallow it they are so distracted by the hair in their throat you can grab them. Don't know if it works but give it a go & let us know.

Straight out of "Danny, Champion of the World" that one.
Grandfathers method for any bird was Grain soaked in Gin, piece of wood to finish in 1/2hr.

Hahahaha

Sounds like you need to employ the services of a professional...

Try catching them just like you do ducks - dig a longish narrow channel in your garden, just about chicken height deep, and wide enough for a chicken [or duck] to walk in. Lay a trail of grain across your lawn and down in to the channel, chickens [or ducks] follow it and then cant go backwards, cant fly out cos its only just wide enough, and sometimes you get a whole trench full of the li'l shits and you just walk up behind, pull them out, knock em on the head and pluck em..........easy peasy.
Or soak a heap of grain in whisky etc, then feed it out. They get drunk as skunks and are easy pickings.

Originally Posted by Husky1600

Try catching them just like you do ducks - dig a longish narrow channel in your garden, just about chicken height deep, and wide enough for a chicken [or duck] to walk in. Lay a trail of grain across your lawn and down in to the channel, chickens [or ducks] follow it and then cant go backwards, cant fly out cos its only just wide enough, and sometimes you get a whole trench full of the li'l shits and you just walk up behind, pull them out, knock em on the head and pluck em..........easy peasy.
Or soak a heap of grain in whisky etc, then feed it out. They get drunk as skunks and are easy pickings.

I'm not wasting my finest 25$ 'scotch' on chickens!

Originally Posted by Angus_A

I'm not wasting my finest 25$ 'scotch' on chickens!

They are easy dates...

Originally Posted by Angus_A

I'm not wasting my finest 25$ 'scotch' on chickens!

My grandad used to work in a brewery and used to take the used grain home for chook food, he said it used to make the roosters fight all the time. Must have been drunk

Where do you get decent Scotch for $25? I'd be using a glass of that for the chooks and then going and buying some good Scotch.

Originally Posted by Husky1600

Where do you get decent Scotch for $25? I'd be using a glass of that for the chooks and then going and buying some good Scotch.

You missed the inverted commas

[Or soak a heap of grain in whisky etc, then feed it out. They get drunk as skunks and are easy pickings.[/QUOTE]
That's an old poachers trick that they used to catch pheasants.