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If they don't then a possie of North islanders may have to pick up the slack. (-:
Certainly no rabbits in the vineyard now with all that grass. Since the boards were disbanded It’s been the land owners responsibility to control rabbits on their land. Not sure what they are whingeing about spending $5000. Some farms down here spend close to 6 figures on pest control annually.
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It’s not just Otago, rabbits have been a bit of a problem here too. One neighbour was complaining about them, when he sold the new owner shot 12 in his first week and still counted another 17 with a thermal scope, and that’s on one hectare.
I was seeing 10-12 at night, now it’s down to 1-2, but just saw a youngster this morning so numbers are on the increase again.
Have a few around here too.
The virus used to go through pretty regular.
Will have to shoot a few if it doesn't.
Tarrras was greener this week than Ive ever seen it...and didnot see single rabbit on cluden hill as drove over n back during day.... maybe its been a wetter spring/summer thus far......that said month back saw close to 50 rabbits around burkes pass,fairlie side of township..the most I can recall seeing.
Last year in summer counted over 100 rabbits from one spot on the Roxburgh golf course. Bloody things can stay over that side of the hill. Hares are pretty bad round here at the moment though, counted 16 and two deer on one 3 ha new grass paddock couple evenings ago
I am so keen to donate a thousand .223 and my associated time to this plague.... Now to load the kids and caravan up, then run the border at full speed.....
Does that mean , some of these upper-crusters are starting to realize that us common-filth hunter-killer types actually do have an important role to play so that they can keep swilling their Shiraz with the unique gibbston bouquets?
I think I'll stick to my couple of grass-roots decent bloke nz'ers thanks.
Essential worker status?? Worth a crack Nigel!Quote:
Originally Posted by 40mm
Thats an awful lot of cheap tasty protein going begging. If the mountains of beuracracy made it ever so slightly easier to sell the stuff, a lot more control would happen for free.
Had a laugh when I read they get their hunter in every three weeks.
That's not even trying to control them lol
Rcd may go through later this year?
Had to laugh, some of them going out to buy, aaaaah, guns and probably all the while maintaining an anti gun stance.Quote:
Originally Posted by kidmac42
When we moved to this small block 5 years ago no rabbits and only the odd hare, this spring have shot 15 rabbits from the doorstep and seen only 1 hare. Mind you waiting to have it cut for hay so could be some hares out there hiding.
Good luck in finding many round tarras md everyone is fairly on top of them long may it lastQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Might be time to have a ring around the gibbston Valley blocks to offer a night shooting service. Very reasonable rates and all.
Shot 583 varmints in last two south cantab visits - and that's just doing recce of new stations. Looking for at least that per visit in future..
Happy to charge exhorbitant rates to take some northerners out... :)
I'm driving down in March..no doubt the pop will have doubled by then. Never mind the exorbitant rates my friend, I'll just fake the hillbilly accent and go door knocking on my own:)Quote:
Originally Posted by mudgripz
Me & the missus have been doing our bit ,we have a busy time coming up so have been keeping the neighbors farms numbers down & stocking up on dog tucker for a while to see them fed over xmas while we are away , here is the results of a couple of hours spotlighting last nights effort .
We have been on our farm for 14yrs now & about 6 yrs ago the rabbit numbers crashed & this year is the first year there has been good numbers again .
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@Mauser308 , don't believe everything you read mate.
Brad Pitt summed it up the best , what you read from the press is like Orange juice. 10% is juice, 90% is crap added.
Look at the photo, the guys talking shit . Some areas are bad and smaller lifestyle blocks are probably the worst but there's a bigger story to this and it's hinted at in the article.
The council have stopped their rabbit control program and handed the problem back to the land owner .
Some are pro - active , some are not or don't want to be or feel it's the council ducking their responsibility. Either way it does need managing before it does become a huge problem.
Good hunt and nice rabbits. Any decent hares there? Do`t know about you, but i kind of likes to eat rabbits, smoke them or roast.Quote:
Originally Posted by bunji
I am not very positive about the k5 virus which has been deployed since 2017, cost millions of dollars with extra cost of 100 dollars per hectare.
In 90s, rabbits was a problem for farmer in inner Mongolia, they turned many grasslands to desert. Farmers only can rely on cold winter, the whiteout, wolfs, fox to control their numbers. Shooting was not an effective way since there were no fit firearms and enough ammo supply. But now rabbits has became protected species for years, they were hunted out and ate out.
" Good hunt and nice rabbits. Any decent hares there? Do`t know about you, but i kind of likes to eat rabbits, smoke them or roast."
@NEO We never seem to get many hares ,but we did drop a couple a few nights before .Yeh we both still like a feed of Rabbit ,in fact l am going to cook up a couple of these later on in the week ,but most of these will go for dog tucker over the Xmas break as we will be in for a
busy time with a birthday get together for a few days thrown in to the usual xmas /new year stuff.:thumbsup:
I'd be more than happy to donate my time and ammo to this cause but unfortunately it's a long commute from Palmy.
Also think the same whenever I drive past Mt Bruce in the wairarapa. 100s of rabbits In the paddocks at any time of the day.
Yeah. It `s great to have nice big family to get together. Can `t wait to see your cooked rabbits.cheersQuote:
Originally Posted by bunji
When driving through I've noticed that with the changing land use around your region Padox, the rabbit population has dropped significantly. Places where they were once rampant are looking very green. Its great to see. We just need to get the lifestyle blocks to get their act together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Padox
but its a cheeezel !!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by hamsav
