Thread: Shooting to waste

Well known fact starlings and possums boost your immune system "a starling a day keeps the doctor away"

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Well known fact starlings and possums boost your immune system "a starling a day keeps the doctor away"

It's true! I remember about 40 years back my parents (lifetime farm rainwater drinkers) were somewhere in the pacific (tahiti?) staying at a hotel, something in the water made every other guest there sick, they were the only guests to not get sick. None of the locals got sick either. The joy of a lifetime of drinking bird crap and dead possums.

Do you or anybody knew how much the pest control party charge for the service? By days operation or contract duration, or hourly rates? Any surcharges maybe? I assume that about half of hunting party are not dedicate hunters, right?

Why farm managers do `t like to see carcasses take away from their land? Just asking

Yes. Almost everything you have covered. But really there was no one tried to do this, may an entrepreneur? Bureaucratic is every where no doubts, but should have a way to get their attention and motivation to make things easier, do `t you think?

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

It's true! I remember about 40 years back my parents (lifetime farm rainwater drinkers) were somewhere in the pacific (tahiti?) staying at a hotel, something in the water made every other guest there sick, they were the only guests to not get sick. None of the locals got sick either. The joy of a lifetime of drinking bird crap and dead possums.

I got sensitive stomach and digestion system. But I never got diarrhea or vomiting once when I gone for outdoors, drinking waters from creek and eating food with dirty hands. But on the contrary, those restaurants and street foods, over cooked sometimes do make me feel not good.

Originally Posted by NEO

Do you or anybody knew how much the pest control party charge for the service? By days operation or contract duration, or hourly rates? Any surcharges maybe? I assume that about half of hunting party are not dedicate hunters, right?

The contracts are often a set amount of hours and paid per hour. Some are per animal.
Many landowner's would love to see the carcasses removed from their land if possible. Come and take as much easy stuff as they can.
Cullers aren't likely to take meat as you are there getting paid to do a job not spend time lugging out meat.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Many deer are taken by commercial hunters for pet food. The hunters are licenced through MPI and GPS each kill to properties with landowner pesticide declarations and sign off.
Local pet food operation here processes between 60 and 80 deer per week. Skin, heads trotters on plucks in $2.00 kg

They’d be needing to recover 800-1000 kg/hour to make that work?

Originally Posted by Maxx

They’d be needing to recover 800-1000 kg/hour to make that work?

Yeah to be running a chopper. The guys referred to above are probably just ground based pet food hunters so a handful of deer per day is viable. The price has dropped significantly compared to even two years ago.