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My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone
suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? David |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT), tathraman wrote:
My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? Indoor hydroponics? |
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On Sep 18, 10:21*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT), *tathraman wrote: My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? Indoor hydroponics? So....has anyone had experience with ultrasonics? |
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tathraman wrote:
On Sep 18, 10:21 pm, wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT), wrote: My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? Indoor hydroponics? So....has anyone had experience with ultrasonics? I've tried them with possums - didn't work. -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com |
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wrote in message ... On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT), tathraman wrote: My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? Indoor hydroponics? When in SW Qld we used to get Bunnies & hoppers during the night come in to sample the "lawn". Our fiercely terratorial heeler would not make a sound about these intruders. But when off the chain she would chase them till the cows came home. So the idea of using a "feral" to control the natives may not work if the feral does not roam free. And of course no one here has free roaming ferals???? |
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wrote in message ... On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT), tathraman wrote: My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? Indoor hydroponics? Re the slaughter aspect a farmer in the middle of NSW (back in the late 70s) had a barley crop and it had a high fence around it. The roos still got over it. So he tried the eradication route. He ran out of ammo before the roos ended. The shooting had no effect as more and more came in from the surrounding areas to the only green in the district. |
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SG1 wrote:
wrote in message ... On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT), tathraman wrote: My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? Indoor hydroponics? When in SW Qld we used to get Bunnies & hoppers during the night come in to sample the "lawn". Our fiercely terratorial heeler would not make a sound about these intruders. But when off the chain she would chase them till the cows came home. So the idea of using a "feral" to control the natives may not work if the feral does not roam free. And of course no one here has free roaming ferals???? He The Kelpie isn't feral but he is free and suffers no bunnies or wallabies in the garden. David |
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"tathraman" wrote in message
... My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? David ime kangaroos will only eat grass & similar, so if something else is being eaten it must be wallabies or rabbits. we found that after we put up a fence, wallabies stayed out (they can't jump very high). roos still come in although the dog chases them out, but as i said i've only ever seen them eating the grass so that doesn't matter anyway. wallabies will eat anything, the wee blighters, & most horribly they will ruin all your young trees. the fence solved most of the problem. to cope with rabbits (which mercifully can't eat trees), we have one veggie area with fence along the ground (so they can't dig in underneath) & have netted half-tubes over other stuff, & that works. (they keep everything out, although they are annoying, albeit less annoying than discovering total carnage). kylie |
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I know I keep harping on about this, but how about a quasi or pseudo
snake? Ages ago, someone got rid of brush turkeys from his yard by sprinkling rubber snakes around. Whether you find these decorative or not would be up to you, but maybe the 'roos might dislike them enough to stay away??? -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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tathraman wrote:
My garden is being ravaged by wallabies and/or kangaroos. Can anyone suggest a deterrent (excluding slaughter) that would be effective? David We keep a dog who is 100% effective in a district with many hoppers of all kinds. But not just any dog will do. Friends of mine have a serious problem and don't want a dog and after many years of battle they now enclose everything they want to keep in cages. David H-S |
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atec77 wrote:
On 19/09/2010 9:16 AM, Trish Brown wrote: I know I keep harping on about this, but how about a quasi or pseudo snake? Ages ago, someone got rid of brush turkeys from his yard by sprinkling rubber snakes around. Whether you find these decorative or not would be up to you, but maybe the 'roos might dislike them enough to stay away??? I doubt it would work but might be cheap to try ,we get no animal life transgressing in the yard , the rotty and wolfhound tend to have that effect Wow! What kind of wolfhound? Irish or Russian? -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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Trish Brown wrote:
atec77 wrote: On 19/09/2010 9:16 AM, Trish Brown wrote: I know I keep harping on about this, but how about a quasi or pseudo snake? Ages ago, someone got rid of brush turkeys from his yard by sprinkling rubber snakes around. Whether you find these decorative or not would be up to you, but maybe the 'roos might dislike them enough to stay away??? I doubt it would work but might be cheap to try ,we get no animal life transgressing in the yard , the rotty and wolfhound tend to have that effect Wow! What kind of wolfhound? Irish or Russian? Peter Lucashound. |
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atec77 wrote:
On 19/09/2010 3:10 PM, Trish Brown wrote: atec77 wrote: On 19/09/2010 9:16 AM, Trish Brown wrote: I know I keep harping on about this, but how about a quasi or pseudo snake? Ages ago, someone got rid of brush turkeys from his yard by sprinkling rubber snakes around. Whether you find these decorative or not would be up to you, but maybe the 'roos might dislike them enough to stay away??? I doubt it would work but might be cheap to try ,we get no animal life transgressing in the yard , the rotty and wolfhound tend to have that effect Wow! What kind of wolfhound? Irish or Russian? Irish of course almost a metre tall and 60kg Ahhhhh... yes, the King of Dogs! I've always wanted one, but lack of $$$ prevents it. Still, I love my Bull Terrier. She's an old lady these days (nearly fifteen), but still keeps us on our toes. The little toad's learned to jump up like a gymnast onto the the timber edges of the rose-garden and tiptoe along to the middle, where she'll pause to - ah - leave her calling card, returning by the same route. She's allergic to something in our lawn, so prefers not to have to 'go' on the grass. ;-D -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:51:55 +1000, atec77 wrote:
Irish of course almost a metre tall and 60kg Lol, local kids just love the local one when they see it down the park, NOT. Freaks them out totally when I just walk up and pat it and still have my hands. Once they realise they aren't going to be lunch, they are amazed. |
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atec77 wrote:
On 20/09/2010 12:45 PM, terryc wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:51:55 +1000, atec77 wrote: Irish of course almost a metre tall and 60kg Lol, local kids just love the local one when they see it down the park, NOT. Freaks them out totally when I just walk up and pat it and still have my hands. Once they realise they aren't going to be lunch, they are amazed. The hound is smarter than most humans which upsets many , far most thoughtful and trustworthy I've never known a crook wolfhound. They're usually the kindliest, most quiet-natured dogs. I s'pose, like most dogs, it all depends on the owner and how they've been brought up. I just love the honest faces and the jaunty tail-carriage. ;-) -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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