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Cratered paddocks and maimed lambs spark calls for action on feral pigs
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NSW Farmers Warrumbungle Branch members Dougald Morse and Andrew Knight talk about their experiences with the pests.
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We've got a property that kind of neighbors, and just at the moment, the way the season's out,
00:07
basically it's got pretty cold, so you've said that a lot of kangaroos and basically wildlife-threatened crops.
00:15
So it's been an ongoing problem.
00:17
Tara Moriarty, she's just announcing all this money to get rid of feral animals and biosecurity,
00:24
and feral pigs is the main biosecurity threat with disease and bad infrastructure, profit, and things like that.
00:31
And if we don't start giving her ideas on how to spend that money, then what's she going to do with it?
00:36
Nothing.
00:36
So I think it's just another tool for our toolbox that we can put forward as New South Wales farmers.
00:42
If it gets rejected, it gets rejected, but you've got to start somewhere.
00:46
The pigs, they're not dumb.
00:49
Some of them will figure out what poison is, what traps are, and you need more tools just to attack.
00:53
So if you've got a chopper chute, not many pigs can get away from it, your chopper chute.
00:59
It's quite expensive, so if you are going to get 50% funded by the state government, then you'd definitely jump at that opportunity.
01:07
You're eradicating them before they get a chance to get in your water, so let those plomosis,
01:13
if they get into your stock water source and urinate, that causes abortions in your cattle.
01:19
Most people do vaccinate for it, but I'm pretty sure it can pass on to humans.
01:25
Same with the Q fever.
01:26
It's a nasty one if they spread that and you're not vaccinated for that.
01:30
It can really knock you in.
01:31
It's a reoccurring illness.
01:34
Yeah, they just, pigs are just riddled with everything you don't want.
01:36
And if you can get rid of them before they get close to your house or close to your Bettson stock, then it's good.
01:42
If they're giving it to your stock and you're handling your stock, it's a really good thing.
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