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This is interesting stuff. Also the veiled method of dealing with the
problem. The scrub turkey can be a menace in the garden as it scratches around garden beds looking for grubs and roots. However, this isn't as bad as when a turkey decides to build a mound in your garden. Nothing short of forced transportation to a new location miles away will stop the bird from scratching together every loose item in a circle up to 50m in diameter! The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have got some helpful hints on how your garden can co-exist with turkeys, as well as much other interesting information. If you really can't put up with your neat garden beds starting to look like Middle East war zones, there are private contractors who will relocate the offending bird(s) for you - look in your Yellow Pages under Pest Control (N.B. this is not a service provided by the Parks and Wildlife Service). But, be aware, nature abhors a vacuum (!), and nothing short of a desert of concrete will stop another inquisitive turkey investigating the grubs in your rose bed! The aboriginal Australians and early settlers did eat the birds, but they are, of course, now protected. The qeustion is, how would you deal with this problem ? Turkey soup? And do they taste anything like a koala? |
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Jonno wrote:
This is interesting stuff. Also the veiled method of dealing with the problem. The scrub turkey can be a menace in the garden as it scratches around garden beds looking for grubs and roots. However, this isn't as bad as when a turkey decides to build a mound in your garden. Nothing short of forced transportation to a new location miles away will stop the bird from scratching together every loose item in a circle up to 50m in diameter! The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have got some helpful hints on how your garden can co-exist with turkeys, as well as much other interesting information. If you really can't put up with your neat garden beds starting to look like Middle East war zones, there are private contractors who will relocate the offending bird(s) for you - look in your Yellow Pages under Pest Control (N.B. this is not a service provided by the Parks and Wildlife Service). But, be aware, nature abhors a vacuum (!), and nothing short of a desert of concrete will stop another inquisitive turkey investigating the grubs in your rose bed! The aboriginal Australians and early settlers did eat the birds, but they are, of course, now protected. The qeustion is, how would you deal with this problem ? Turkey soup? And do they taste anything like a koala? This question came up a good while ago. The advice given (and it worked, too, according to the questioner) was to artfully place a few large rubber snakes around the garden. Apparently, the turkeys felt it better to avoid the place with snakes and moved on. -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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Trish Brown wrote:
Jonno wrote: This is interesting stuff. Also the veiled method of dealing with the problem. The scrub turkey can be a menace in the garden as it scratches around garden beds looking for grubs and roots. However, this isn't as bad as when a turkey decides to build a mound in your garden. Nothing short of forced transportation to a new location miles away will stop the bird from scratching together every loose item in a circle up to 50m in diameter! The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have got some helpful hints on how your garden can co-exist with turkeys, as well as much other interesting information. If you really can't put up with your neat garden beds starting to look like Middle East war zones, there are private contractors who will relocate the offending bird(s) for you - look in your Yellow Pages under Pest Control (N.B. this is not a service provided by the Parks and Wildlife Service). But, be aware, nature abhors a vacuum (!), and nothing short of a desert of concrete will stop another inquisitive turkey investigating the grubs in your rose bed! The aboriginal Australians and early settlers did eat the birds, but they are, of course, now protected. The qeustion is, how would you deal with this problem ? Turkey soup? And do they taste anything like a koala? This question came up a good while ago. The advice given (and it worked, too, according to the questioner) was to artfully place a few large rubber snakes around the garden. Apparently, the turkeys felt it better to avoid the place with snakes and moved on. Who needs rubber. I don't suppose I can mail mail you a couple of redbellys, seein as how they be protected too. It's the breeding season and we are infested. David |
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David Hare-Scott wrote:
Trish Brown wrote: Jonno wrote: This is interesting stuff. Also the veiled method of dealing with the problem. The scrub turkey can be a menace in the garden as it scratches around garden beds looking for grubs and roots. However, this isn't as bad as when a turkey decides to build a mound in your garden. Nothing short of forced transportation to a new location miles away will stop the bird from scratching together every loose item in a circle up to 50m in diameter! The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service have got some helpful hints on how your garden can co-exist with turkeys, as well as much other interesting information. If you really can't put up with your neat garden beds starting to look like Middle East war zones, there are private contractors who will relocate the offending bird(s) for you - look in your Yellow Pages under Pest Control (N.B. this is not a service provided by the Parks and Wildlife Service). But, be aware, nature abhors a vacuum (!), and nothing short of a desert of concrete will stop another inquisitive turkey investigating the grubs in your rose bed! The aboriginal Australians and early settlers did eat the birds, but they are, of course, now protected. The qeustion is, how would you deal with this problem ? Turkey soup? And do they taste anything like a koala? This question came up a good while ago. The advice given (and it worked, too, according to the questioner) was to artfully place a few large rubber snakes around the garden. Apparently, the turkeys felt it better to avoid the place with snakes and moved on. Who needs rubber. I don't suppose I can mail mail you a couple of redbellys, seein as how they be protected too. It's the breeding season and we are infested. David Redbellies are excellent mousers! We had one living under our house for a couple of years and not a mouse was spotted. Sadly, he eventually moved on and oboy! The mouse plague that followed was *prodigious*! We caught eighty-three mice in one season! Come back, Snidely! All is forgiven! -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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g'day david,
we had a few around when we where in rural fairly timid in the normal season preffering to run than stand and fight but like all joe blakes i expect when the testosteone is running hot look out. suppose realy they are the pussy cat of the venomous snakes last i heard there has never been a fatality recorded from being bitten by one, not tat i want to put it to the test mind you hey chuckle. them brown's or taipan's are the baddies. len snipped |
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