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LCX

Pm'd you Flicka

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Bucking mad

Sorry flick but these ppl who wan't the numbers controlled, are the aboriginal elders of the area. Unfortunatley, the remotenss of the area and the costs would have to end up in the thousands after you take in capture, transport education, worming,hoof care etc. When you can buy a registerd performed horse for a 3 to 4 grand it just doesn't pay. If your that serios, I know a station owner with stock going back to the original horses there, with weanlings and yearlings at foot. But it's a hell of a long way.

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Valiente Blanco

This is for you Flicka

Wild Horses of WA

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Flicka

hey vb (flick wavin) thanks for that ,you too lxc ,good possibility

were, in hours will do bm? possible hootchie muma

primrosecourt

Ok well I dont quite understand if it is the only way to cull these horses then why has Arieal Culling been banned in many other states?
Surely they have come up with other solutions and more humaine ways of culling instead .....cant WA follow suit?

I agree that if it is such a problem then they do needed to be culled but just like killing any animal, there are ways and means of doing it and to me this isnt one of them (not for the 21st centuary anyway).I think we all have to be resonsible of ending another life in as little pain and cruelty as possibly.After all we choose to put these horses here in the first place so its up to us to end it humanily.

I am not a 'do gooder' but I have respect/value for all life and especially life that has not asked to born.If something needs to be put down/culled/butchered etc then thats ok but it needs to be done in a responsible and ethical way,not barbaric which I feel this is verging on.

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Clerrt

The sad thing is that if people managed their stock appropriately, there wouldn't be a need for any form of culling..................people should really start thinking about the consequences of their actions.

There are positives and negatives with ariel culling, you can just look back through the posts and see examples of them.

But can you deny that this isn't 100% effective and we know that some animals are left to suffer a prolonged death, or live on with injuries.

I understand that this is probably the best system we have at the moment, but in the future I'm sure we will come up with better.

Sharaway

The problem is that the culling doesnt go far enough, they should be clearing the areas of ALL the horses not just thining them out, thining them out only allows the others to still breed, and just means that the shooters will have to back at some point in the future to do it all again.

If you have to cull, do the job once, do it right, get them all, and then you dont have to come back again and again running the rest of the heard ragged in the process.

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wattle6180

Aerial culling may very well be in the best interests of the animals but surely a ground crew should be employed? Some animals can be shot with a non-fatal bullet and suffer a long, agonising death. A ground should be enagaged to destroy all animals that have not received a fatal shot (also all foals of such - sorry but they would otherwise starve to death).

I've been trying to get such celebs as Nicole Kidman enagaged in the wild brumby plight as there actually is a Kidman heritage Listed lineage of brumbies out fo the stations of Sir Sidney Kidman who donated crops, planes, cloth, horses and other services to WWI

To all Stockies...look into this and put your money where your mouth is and become members of OHHAWA or WildHorsesKimberley so that these specialists can carry on THEIR valuable work - membership IS tax deductable!

Trojane

Agree completely - but HOW? is the question. Be nice if they imploded on contact with cane toads.

I know there is something in doing your bit to make the world a better place, but please explain how catching 20 brumbies - or even 1,000 - and selling them in Perth is going to help with a feral horse population estimated at 300,000?

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Sharaway

Then add Donkeys and Camels to that, there is enough Pet Meat roaming the out back to feed all of our pets for the next 1000 years lol

My uncle used to own a pet food company in the NT and was contracted to clear feral’s from pastoral land, and by clear, its remove every last one of them.

It can be done, it involves ground and air coverage, you have to fence of the water sources or temporarily poison the water, you have to do it at the peak of the dry season.

He was able to clear out the camels, donkeys and horses.

On this one property it took 3 seasons to clear them all for the shear numbers involved.

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