Thread: Taranaki Goat hunting

While we’re on this topic, where in northern Taranaki is good for a fallow? I hear that Taumaranui area holds them, but have only come across reds so far.

Originally Posted by tanqueray

While we’re on this topic, where in northern Taranaki is good for a fallow? I hear that Taumaranui area holds them, but have only come across reds so far.

Id also would like to know that bro. Havent even seen a deer in the wild yet

Originally Posted by tanqueray

While we’re on this topic, where in northern Taranaki is good for a fallow? I hear that Taumaranui area holds them, but have only come across reds so far.

There really isn't anywhere in north Taranaki (DOC land) that is "good" for fallow haha not that i have found anyway, but they are around in very small numbers, and your quite right i have seen them around the Taumarunui area, I had a spot North Taranaki where i lived in my teens, We had a venison farm that backed onto DOC land, My granddad used to come down yearly and take away a fallow or Red, unfortunately the whole area behind us got 1080d and although im sure they didnt kill everything, it just sure felt like it, my granddad stopped coming down and i stopped hunting there, this was 15 years ago, i went back 5 years ago and it still felt like a dead forest couldnt even hear a bird, but i went up at the beginning of the year, and although i didnt see one i did see sign that they are still around or at least coming back as well as the bird life, i will give it another year or two and hopefully it will be back to its former glory