Land Owners - Deer Culling

[bottletopbill]

Sussex are considering a deer cull due to the numbers on all land.
So get people you know to shoot the deer at least then you have control and know the shooter. sussex woods pilot scheme

Plenty of shooters are willing for free and trustworthy. insurance cover and licensed good luck

 

[nick...]

Got a couple come here,one an ex copper so they know the rules.have shot 10 roe and muntjac in last year but still overrun with them.get them and reds in garden every morning and got a herd of about 20 reds live on ours and neighbouring meadows.far too many about ,plenty laying dead on side of roads and many accidents caused aswell.was told a couple weeks ago there are 30,000 shot a year in thetford forest which is a massive number.
definatly need controlling
Nick…

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

was told a couple weeks ago there are 30,000 shot a year in thetford forest which is a massive number.

That can't be right?!????


[edit: found this article]

Anger at deer cull in forest

ANIMAL campaigners last night accused officials at an East Anglian beauty spot of acting inhumanely after learning that a quarter of its deer…

www.eadt.co.uk

 

[Dry Rot]

If I remember correctly, an annual cull of about 30% is needed to maintain a healthy deer population with the culling done at all ages, but I am sure someone will correct me if I've remembered that wrongly. That advice would have come from Dick Balharry, head of the old Nature Conservancy for Scotland. Considering the demand for stalking from overseas visitors, something is going badly wrong somewhere.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Any ideas why there are Red Deer in Norfolk?

Descendants of outliers from the Norwich Staghounds?

 

[toquark]

Got a couple come here,one an ex copper so they know the rules.have shot 10 roe and muntjac in last year but still overrun with them.get them and reds in garden every morning and got a herd of about 20 reds live on ours and neighbouring meadows.far too many about ,plenty laying dead on side of roads and many accidents caused aswell.was told a couple weeks ago there are 30,000 shot a year in thetford forest which is a massive number.
definatly need controlling
Nick…

Nah there will never be that number shot in Thetford. 3000 at a push.

 

[toquark]

Any ideas why there are Red Deer in Norfolk?

Descendants of outliers from the Norwich Staghounds?

Reds are native and would have covered the whole of the UK at one time, they were pushed back to the more remote corners but are now back on the offensive. I don't think they ever left Norfolk, but when they planted Thetford Forest in the early 20th century, that, along with the neighbouring arable farmland gave them a perfect habitat. The same has happened up here in Scotland as forest cover has expanded, so has the red deer range.

 

[T Hectares]

They are a massive problem here, I’d be in favour of a cull
Our stalkers are struggling to dispose of the carcasses as the Game dealers are full of them
Nearly 200 shot here this year over 3000 acres and we still have numbers like this
Nationally the Deer population is the highest it’s ever been

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

They are a massive problem here, I’d be in favour of a cull
Our stalkers are struggling to dispose of the carcasses as the Game dealers are full of them
Nearly 200 shot here this year over 3000 acres and we still have numbers like this

I've often wondered if these big herds of fallow could be herded/baited into a big high fenced pen and enclosed?

Are they as tame as they look?

I dread to think what 200 fallow eat in a week.

 

[Widgetone]

Any ideas why there are Red Deer in Norfolk?

Descendants of outliers from the Norwich Staghounds?

Saw a couple of white ones in a herd just the other day..did a double take.

Massive number of dead roe and muntjac roadside nowadays which indicates the scale of deer populations, badgers too. Very few hedgehog corpses though..

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Coming into Yoxford from Ipswich last evening I saw a herd of ten or fifteen Roe bunched up in a wheat field.
Great to see but they must leave quite a mark in the crop.
SS

 

[soapsud]

Stalkers say Roe don't naturally herd like fallow or red which must say a lot for the numbers.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

They are a massive problem here, I’d be in favour of a cull
Our stalkers are struggling to dispose of the carcasses as the Game dealers are full of them
Nearly 200 shot here this year over 3000 acres and we still have numbers like this
Nationally the Deer population is the highest it’s ever been

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Sod the bolt action. You're going to have to go belt fed to deal with that number

 

[T Hectares]

I’d be happy with 10 to 15 !!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1333732564150848

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Nah there will never be that number shot in Thetford. 3000 at a push.

Roger Woods, communications manager for the Forestry Commission, said: “This has been a long term issue - almost ever since the forest was created in the 1920s. But due to legislation, there is nothing we can do. We can only cull at certain times of the year and in certain numbers.

“We do have a large population of deer within the 60,000 acres of Thetford Forest. There are at least 12,000 deer which have heavy breeding patterns. Deer are a big issue in the forest and we have to cull about 3,000 a year.”

 

[delilah]

Our stalkers are struggling to dispose of the carcasses as the Game dealers are full of them

That's the bit that intrigues me. Where is all the venison from a long overdue national cull to go ?

Has to be a PR opportunity here if it's done properly: Affordable, sustainable protein for the masses.

 

[T Hectares]

I've often wondered if these big herds of fallow could be herded/baited into a big high fenced pen and enclosed?

Are they as tame as they look?

I dread to think what 200 fallow eat in a week.

I think they could, they are used to people

Once corralled i would think something like an AR 15 might be appropriate??

 

[delilah]

Pound to a penny a video goes viral of them being chucked in a pit. That's how useless we are.

 

[T Hectares]

That's the bit that intrigues me. Where is all the venison from a long overdue national cull to go ?

Has to be a PR opportunity here if it's done properly: Affordable, sustainable protein for the masses.

Yes, promoting it as healthy & sustainable is key
We need more people eating it to help control them
It’s not healthy and sustainable for the deer to have such numbers around

 

[soapsud]

That's the bit that intrigues me. Where is all the venison from a long overdue national cull to go ?

Has to be a PR opportunity here if it's done properly: Affordable, sustainable protein for the masses.

lasagne?