Post by carragheendexters on Jul 2, 2013 7:22:18 GMT -5
It's impossible to get on top of feral animals unless it is a concerted effort by everyone in the area. As soon as you kill off a few they just move in from next door. Not baiting with 1080 I hope, hopefully they are using fresh meat baits at least, not Foxoff. We trap and then shoot foxes so that we only get the target species. The problem with foxes and baits is that they cache them, move them from where they are planted and so can move them out of the baiting area. The other problem is that once poisoned one of the first symptoms is that they vomit everything up, so the 1080 is sitting there on the ground for the next unsuspecting animal to come along and eat it.
Our local vets get a lot of secondary poisoned farm dogs from fox spew. Very few survive. Worth keeping your cattle and other animals away from that neighbour during the baiting period, when our neighbour on the coast baited we found so many dead foxes on our place. Secondary poisoning from the carcase is also possible.
regards Louise
Our local vets get a lot of secondary poisoned farm dogs from fox spew. Very few survive. Worth keeping your cattle and other animals away from that neighbour during the baiting period, when our neighbour on the coast baited we found so many dead foxes on our place. Secondary poisoning from the carcase is also possible.
regards Louise
