The Friday afternoon before the season opened.




Opening morning was very slow.Same birds different background.


Afternoon the shooting was a little better.

crikey, how bigs your frezzer??????
nice work, you could force a smile thou
some nice gobblers too.
exelent
greg

looks like you had a good day.

Do you skin or pluck those birds?

I was unlucky with my hunt dates in NZ this year, I will not be able to hunt birds after hunting deer because the season ends the same day.

Hey James smile! You're supposed to be having fun.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peter O:
looks like you had a good day.

Do you skin or pluck those birds?

simple breast them out the same way as you would do a goose is the best method i have found.the meat is an acquired taste that i don't mind but probably wouldn't have it all the time.we went out after the parries and limited out getting 70 with a couple of canadas in there as well.the pond we shoot on can get a bit over crowded and the cocky doesn't really like having to many birds eating all his grass and craping everwhere so a cull is pretty much a necessity

I hope they taste better than Mountain duck.

I don't mind a young corella or galah but an old duck---- the feathered ones I mean. I don't think I could eat one.

Are they the same "Geese" that are shot in argentina?



FB

quote:

Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Are they the same "Geese" that are shot in argentina?

They are just feral or barn yarn geese,just like the ones in the U.K.

Farmers want them shot on sight as the geese have up to a dozen young each year and would soon take over.

not to mention that geese also spread salmonella, and when a sheep gets it, it dies. paradise ducks spread avian tb which is an inconvenince when one of your cattle or deer have a reactor at tb testing time. you have to get them all in again in another 12 days to do another test, and i i think your tb status is suspended for 3 months. which is a huge pain in the ass.

kill em all?

Yep the Geese in the photo's look like ouor feral greylags, but I was actually referring to the Paradise Ducks. THey look like the Geese we shot in Argentina that was all.

I didn't realise they spread TB though.

We have a similar problem with Rooks here in the UK

FB

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Yep the Geese in the photo's look like ouor feral greylags, but I was actually referring to the Paradise Ducks


as far as i am aware paradise duck are native to new zealand but the hens do look very similar