Pest Free NZ - radio national

[Akzle]

At $4 a skin ... delivered to the buyer. .

no.
4$ worth of plucked fur. about 1 minute per possum.

jeesus. go do some trapping. stop reading google.

Back steaks are best Bilton using possums you have to be having us on.

nope. it's good. plus. free meat.
i hate to waste shit.

[FJRider]

no.
4$ worth of plucked fur. about 1 minute per possum.

thats about a minute per possum more than many want to spend.

nope. it's good. plus. free meat.
i hate to waste shit.

In my locality ... to me ... rabbit is easier and more plentiful than possum. And tastes better and you can get more money for the meat. Rabbit shooters (licenced and their own rifle [.22]) are in big demand around here.

[mashman]

not bad. quantity is a problem. backsteaks are best and rear legs for cutlets now and then, did some biltong once which was bloody good, and once i build a proper biltong box i'll be doing it regularly. green curry goes good too, i want to give bacon-ing a go.
they only graze the freshest, newest, tastiest buds through teh forest and run a lot so the meat is very lean.
although it was reccomended once that for maximum "coon flavour" catch em live and feed em weetbix and milk for 3 days before killing. look up wild game recipes on googeliser.
one of my mates (a rabbiter in the day) reckoned it was better stewed/ broiled etc, personally i don't think it's neccesary. nor do i think rabbit is that much better than. (and the yurp's will pay 30$ for a fuckin rabbit to eat!!)

Bitchin... just need to learn to shoot and get me a gun. I guess a kebab machine would be good for gettin the skin off?

[Akzle]

Bitchin... just need to learn to shoot and get me a gun. I guess a kebab machine would be good for gettin the skin off?

skinning is an acquired skill.
Again, You tube "sock skinning possum"
Fur buyers will take skins from waikato south. Northland too warm. Skins too thin. But requires salting, tanning etc.
Fur pluck is easy.
Nevermind a shooter, get some leghold traps (8$ trademe)
y'd hav to be fair handycapped to not catch in a trap. (plus i've never had an AOS callout for carrying traps ><)

quite aside, yeh. Git on down to yir local gunclub and lern to use a boomstick.

[mashman]

skinning is an acquired skill.
Again, You tube "sock skinning possum"
Fur buyers will take skins from waikato south. Northland too warm. Skins too thin. But requires salting, tanning etc.
Fur pluck is easy.
Nevermind a shooter, get some leghold traps (8$ trademe)
y'd hav to be fair handycapped to not catch in a trap. (plus i've never had an AOS callout for carrying traps ><)

quite aside, yeh. Git on down to yir local gunclub and lern to use a boomstick.

Skinning? Fuck that! I'll get meself a few herbs and spices and crisp that little fucker up... should that not work the skin should fall off. Fire be good for defurring too?

I need to learn to shoot anyway for when de humanz turnz to zombeez... or at least shoot slightly bigger things should the opportunity present itself.

[BoristheBiter]

Skinning? Fuck that! I'll get meself a few herbs and spices and crisp that little fucker up... should that not work the skin should fall off. Fire be good for defurring too?

I need to learn to shoot anyway for when de humanz turnz to zombeez... or at least shoot slightly bigger things should the opportunity present itself.

The fur is the part you sell dumbarse

And in May it was worth $109 p/kg

[Crasherfromwayback]

The fur is the part you sell dumbarse

And in May it was worth $109 p/kg

And it's gorgeous fur too.

[BoristheBiter]

And it's gorgeous fur too.

Every year we do a shoot for the play center in Te Kuiti as fund raising.
I think they make about $1100 for the fur from about 3 to 400 possums.
this is from 2 nights work over a few teams. sounds more profitable than you guys give it credit for.

and it didn't cost the government anything.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Every year we do a shoot for the play center in Te Kuiti as fund raising.
I think they make about $1100 for the fur from about 3 to 400 possums.
this is from 2 nights work over a few teams. sounds more profitable than you guys give it credit for.

and it didn't cost the government anything.

Awesome! And don't get me wrong...I'm all for it. But that ain't my argument.

Mate of mine years ago had a huge possum fur rug...I'd fucking love one to this day!

[george formby]

Every year we do a shoot for the play center in Te Kuiti as fund raising.
I think they make about $1100 for the fur from about 3 to 400 possums.
this is from 2 nights work over a few teams. sounds more profitable than you guys give it credit for.

and it didn't cost the government anything.

One of my customers is part of a pest eradication program up here, stoats, weasels, rats (using a kick arse terrier to find them) and possums. Traps are set in trees. She gets up to a kilo of fur a week depending on the weather, no good in the rain, & she just plucks there bellys! Selling meat is too labour intensive & too many hoops to jump through.
She gave me a possum merkin for my birthday. Lovely girl.

[mashman]

The fur is the part you sell dumbarse

And in May it was worth $109 p/kg

Why the furk would I want to sell any part of it? Doh, forgot who I was talkin too.

Mate of mine years ago had a huge possum fur rug...I'd fucking love one to this day!

Toupee or Merkin?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Toupee or Merkin?

A one piece double.

[george formby]

A one piece double.

Fook me! How big are the possums down thar?

[mashman]

A one piece double.

I'm sorry I asked.

[Crasherfromwayback]

For a person who has sold motorbikes most of their life you are a proper little know all, are you not ?..

In decline in areas 1080 used. 'Every animal including birds and kiwis..That is all animals. Go into an area where '1080 pollard baits' has been used for the following 9 months or so there will be an awful silence. 'NO BIRD LIFE NOTHING AT ALL.' To say otherwise 'you' would of be brain washed by the bureaucracy, the same as the rest of those who do not know the real deal.

You still haven't told us what you do for a living?

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