the wife grazes her horse on a farm which has a rapidly expanding pukeko problem. are they legal to shoot during duck season. do i need a permit etc?
they are turning fields into swamp and shitting in all the water troughs
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the wife grazes her horse on a farm which has a rapidly expanding pukeko problem. are they legal to shoot during duck season. do i need a permit etc?
they are turning fields into swamp and shitting in all the water troughs
They are on the duck licence.
cheers
Yup legal during duck shooting but you would need a game bird licence.Quote:
Originally Posted by gonetropo
If they are being a pest you can shoot them out of season but need permission from DOC I believe.
yep, they make great "rock soup"Quote:
Originally Posted by berg243
boil your pukeko with a rock, when the rock turns soft ......eat the rock
this is more of a cull, its a hobby farm of various animals and every day the water troughs are full of bird poo
Make pukeko soup just as you would for chicken soup. Most could not recognise any difference.
Contact Fish &Game and explain your situation. Do not do anything but as I have said as the consequences are qucite exspensive. There is a solution anf F&G will help. Feel free to pm me your number or I can give you mine.
suppressed .22 does happily deal to the close ones, but they get the idea pretty quick.
What's the preferred round for taking out a lot of these, with as little change of a ricochet into neighboring properties as possible? 17 Remington / fireball / hornet?
trying to ring F&G currently. message says what their opening hours are and no one is answering.
2 ways of dealing with the problem.
From the 2020 game regs : Pukeko 23 May to 27 Sept 2020 limit of 5 All areas.
Buy a game licence then chase them with a shotgun.
2nd way is contact the landowner and talk to him........He will have to contact F&G and get a permit as he is the landowner. However, F&G normally wont issue a permit during the game season and will say 'Get some hunters in to deal with them under the game regs.'
Getting strangers to hunt them during the game season is not an ideal solution as they may cause bigger problems esp if they are just looking for a place to hunt especially with horses on the property.
got thru to F&G, yep game license and shotgun at this time of year. wait till summer and it changes to the point i can use a suppressed 22.
now the property is zoned rural but getting surrounded by townies so the quieter the better. no issues with shooting the property at all as the mrs knows the owner for many years.
Have made a batch of Pukeko Patè before. Came out bloody good and couldn't tell the difference between that and normally liver patè.
hey any recipes are more than welcome
Just grab any normal Patè recipe and just replace the liver with pukeko breast, it's good.
Easiest way to breast them is lay them on their belly,stand on legs and pull at the base of the wings. The breast will rip right through the sternum and voila. Works best when warm.
If they are walking on your grass or eating it a cull is needed.
We had a couple come up attacking our chooks they soon got the don't come back message.
The Pate is a good idea. They do make an admirable tasty soup with one proviso, take the meat off the leg bones or better yet dont use the lower 'shank' (Drumstick) part of the leg because the bones there separate into long needle slivers when cooking
They'll wise up to a 22 pretty quick. If they're hiding out in a bit of wetland flush them with a dog and shot gun them. Otherwise 223 them at 300m or so.
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I’ve bought a .22Stoger air rifle been banging on a secret location for a friend of a friend, they are a pest and come off the farm next door into a residential area!
SHOTGUN ONLY......during season...with licence...flying (or roosting in tree but aborting roost,eg in air with wings going) DO NOT shoot with .22lr its illegal....I cannot believe people are on an open forum, read by all sorts, including ANTIs, and are suggesting OP breaks the law.
#2-3-4-5 shot work...they arent hard to kill but can be hard to get close enough to do so.
Never had a problem with plovers dying.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mauser308
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One tip when you start shooting them.
If you wound one, DONT pick it up by the neck!!! If you do, it will redesign your forearm with its legs..............
Fish & Game are good to deal with, and can issue permits depending on the circumstances. The use of firearms other than a shotgun can be stipulated on the permit, so .22LR, and centrefire rifles can be used.
The birds shitting in the water troughs and giving the stock Salmonella, is a valid reason to get a permit.
the F&G guy was great once i finally got thru. his advice was to wait till th end of water fowl season then get a permit to use a supressed 22.
Man I feel your pain, I know first hand what a problem they can be, they'll do a lot of damage to silage stacks if your not careful.
Interesting about the airports having an open season, didn't know that.
hell if the wifes horse caught a waterborn disease and died from pukeko shit i wouldnt mind
horse = a useless animal that turns $$ into shit.
but yeah i will wait till summer and 22 the buggers (pukekos that is)
Turns out the 17 Hornet is a very efficient tool to use on the Pukeko's, and fixes the "cannot get close" issue.
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Don't educate the mob, they learn very fast. Study them they will have a home paddock area that the will retreat to under pressure.
Murray Ferris is the go to guy. Mention ., Bos, thats my name and he might help or he might not. Lol
:D:D The recipe turned up quicker than normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by gonetropo
Haha it sure does, but i wouldnt know anything about that LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by quentin
I missed the meal this year but they are better than the recipe above apparentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Hiawatha
https://www.facebook.com/FishandGame...7314559048634/
