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Smiley n Me · 29-08-2008, 03:27 PM

Found this on another website

Aerial culling reforms for WA - 29/08/2008

Bucking mad · 29-08-2008, 03:54 PM

It was in the West Australian earlier in the week. not nice but probably a neccasary evil. The blokes who do this are top marksmen and you can get far closer in a helicopter than you can on foot or motorbike, epecially due to the remoteness on the area. When their numbers become so many that they are detrimantal to the enviroment, themselves and other animals, in that the land can't support them, then unfortunatley somethings gotta give.

misskel · 29-08-2008, 05:42 PM

Although I didn't like the photo that was in the West I do believe that it is a necessary thing.

LCX · 29-08-2008, 09:38 PM

( To my understanding ) The article was based on the fact that there has been complaints about the horses being injured and not killed and then roaming around. Clean shot to heart or head cannot always been quaranteed in an aerial cull although yes, it's actually possible to get closer to wild horses by helicopter than by a motorvehicle. I don't support this method and I also think that a bit more could be done to prevent feral horse communities getting bigger. A lot of big properties have surplus they let loose once used. Amongst them there is mares who get in touch with the stallions already running wild and they multiply. And in some, although maybe in rare occasions, our "brumbies" arrive staright of the track of the northwest. And station surplus let loose. Dumped in the desert.

Sorry if I upset someone again. Not hunting for an argument here.

misskel · 29-08-2008, 09:42 PM

LCX you have made valid points and you have my agreeance on this.

LCX · 29-08-2008, 09:49 PM

What I said is based on my own experiences and to what I have seen with my own eyes. I haven't obviously seen all of it and I do obviously know that feral horses cause lots of grief for the environment and also compete with resources with beef cattle, etc. hence the culling is needed, however I still believe in preventing the problem going further and further .... due to the factors mentioned in my post above ..

Bucking mad · 29-08-2008, 10:44 PM

A clean heart/head shot can never be garenteed, from any position and given the remoteness of the area, other methods are far less successful or inaffective to control the population. According to the newspaper report, the horses are on aboriginal land and unfortunatley they need to be controled.

LCX · 29-08-2008, 10:49 PM

I think that's a different report to what I read. What I would suggest, is to prevent the population from growing, because of some people's thoughtless and selfish acts. I had a friend, or let's put it, that I knew someone, who had a mob of stockhorses left on a large northwest property. He did not bother managing his stock as was too busy doing other things and as the fences break and no one was there to check on the animals or fencing periodically, the brumbies got in and the stockhorses out etc. Needless to say there was a stallion amongst them and instead of a few horses he had left behind, there was over 40 when he finally returned to the property he only lived 100km from, many years later. Didn't bother dealing with the problem again and numbers grow ... why bother, they just come and cull them eventually he says. This is just one person, there is many others who act the same way. I have also seen some properties let old horses loose " bush" them once they used them and they get too old or are otherwise no good for working anymore. Amongst them again, there is mares and sometimes the odd colt and numbers grows again and then they need to cull. And then sometimes the racing industry surplus too ends up to the edge of desert. Don't ask me how I know, I don't wish to talk about it. My point is that culling would be a bit less needed if people did not contribute to the problem by their selfish acts.

GeeJay · 30-08-2008, 06:48 AM

Its a shame the RSPCA didn't put in the same effort to stop suffering of animals in backyard suburbia or the the little hobby farms, but that wouldn't make headlines

Janet

Bucking mad · 30-08-2008, 08:01 AM

Ageed GJ.

Off the track I know, but I used to work at Ingham's and they were always dealing with animal libbers etc. But do these do gooders realise that when they do things like cut off the water supply and contaminate te feeds, the animals are put into a worse situation than what they are trying to free them from.
Kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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