With the current drought it would be opportune to cull the horses. Remember the outcry when NSW National Parks attempted a cull in the Guy Fawks and Snowy Mountain parks. I remember clowns from the RSPCA or Animal Liberation asking that a vet be in attendance to euthanasia each horse.
(I don’t know how they intend to catch the horses, which is a pre-requisite) The same clowns probably feed their pets Pal that is comprised in part of slow racehorses.
Poisoning is probably the most cost effective but wilI require fencing off watering points leaving low “pop-holes” for wild life. I would say poison what we can and shoot any survivors before they move on.

It's a shame that they have to be culled, but no more tragic than the havoc they wreak on the environment.

And if you think this issue is an election clincher, I'm afraid you're dreaming. It really doesn't rate as one of the big issues.

Some people are more concerned about culling than they are about street people, the homeless.
We must cull , feed them up and trap them cull them humanly but cull we must.
Cats are as bad and dogs gone wild would you believe dingos around here are often black or white?
We must act or one day horse flue will be just a head cold compared with what could be transmitted via Ferrel animals.

Sheesh Pale, perhaps you should get into the brumbyburger business :)

What do you do if there are too many people? Shoot them? As pointed out earlier in the thread prevention is better than cure. What the pollies dont want to be asked is why they didn't take the advice of animal welfare groups and fund a sterilization program. Surely they dont share sille's contempt?

Yabby
There you are Yabbs. Guess you missed us ah.

The RSPCA says the Queensland Government should be controlling the numbers of feral horses across the state with a sterility program instead of a planned cull.

umm - The State Labour Government and the Federal Government should have introduced a similar programe Australia wide long ago.

The thing is all these issues are not hightlighted enough and only when thousands are shot and left to die slowly the public get involved.

One horse was found with more than a dozen bullets in him still alive of course.

Mind you thats just one we know about.

They are all in very good nick with plenty of feed about.

I dont know Yabby it might be a good idea if Polys stay out of land control. What would these public jerks know about the bush.
They complain about the bush fires. Thats because the growth is not controlled and the weeds clogging up the creeks.
Blimey what would our fathers and grandfathers say about their so called mangment.
Not one of them sitting on those boards is a bush man.
Yet they think they can control it.

The so called pests of this world are selfish narrow minded greedy people.
Belly why do you assume we have more right to live on this earth than the animals we share it with.
Make that are supposed to share it with.
Shheesh