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Maximillion, fire-stick farming attracts game to fresh plant growth.
Australia's High Court recognised Aboriginal jurisprudence seventeen years ago on the 3rd of June, 1992.
Posted by whistler, Sunday, 14 June 2009 11:04:56 PM
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Take my advice from another thread Max , its not worth it.
I but my Roo snags from Coles, along with my steaks and other Roo meat.
Being a bush breed kid I once harvested it with a gun.
I have worked in a tannery once and processed thousands of hides.
Roo and Cattle, an interesting life has seen me work in meat processing plant.
have you seen animals waiting their turn to die?
All death is cruel, but from the days we came out of the cave to scavenge other animal kills we eat meat.
We always will.
The Bambi factor exists, the Roo is on our coat of arms we once rode on the sheeps back we always have eaten it.
Cruelty? some of those Roo death films are true, idiots exist, many are pure lies.
We can harvest Roos without farming them, we could set up at little cost feed stations that see parasites kept under control in Roo meat.
Again if we all went of meat what would we do with the billions of animals we would no longer kill?
Think about the growing numbers in just one year without harvesting.
Posted by Belly, Monday, 15 June 2009 6:04:42 AM
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Fox, Banjo, while I appreciate your outlook on the current situation, my proposal was for the breeding and farming of roos in a new way. The parasites and diseases could be bred out, and the meat tamed, as it were. Wild caught anything is always a stronger flavour, cultured roo would inevitably be milder. With a co-ordinated breeding and advertising campaign, we could possibly make it the "new rabbit" on the plates of the world.
We could even push it O/S as "Long-drop steak"!
They'd never know, and we'd sure get a giggle out of it!
Posted by Maximillion, Monday, 15 June 2009 12:46:20 PM
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Max,
What you are proposing is an intense project in a small enclosure, with the roos being totally hand fed with pellets and such. Now that would save on factory style fencing and medication for parasites/disease control given via the feed. They certainly would be a lot quieter but I still envisage substantial problems with handling and slaughter.

People that keep roos for tourism would have most experience for that type of activity. I don't know what the feed requirements would be, but have a close look at the economics.

A roo feed lot: May attract some 'investors'

I have seen many other things tried, like deer, ostriches, emus but few seem to succeed.
Posted by Banjo, Monday, 15 June 2009 3:49:07 PM
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Banjo, nowhere did I suggest any such thing!
Try and think bigger, outside the box, though I hate that phrase.
Imagine this. We have bred roos to the point of indolence, no speed or height in their leaps. They are plumper, basically more stupid, as most domesticated animals tend to be.
The fencing would only need to be slightly better than the current standard, though even that may not be necessary if we breed well enough. Larger paddocks, so they can feed in their natural style, on their natural food, in almost natural conditions. Stocking rates would never equal European animals, but the environment would suffer far less, and their food plants could be more widely cultivated, again replacing imported varieties and encouraging the spread of other native fauna and flora.
The handling and meat and hide production would be identical to what we now have, so no problem there.
All we then need is the successful marketing, and that’s in the lap of the gods.
To be honest, I have no idea if we could sell it, maybe as a health thing, but what the (*), they’ll but just about anything, somewhere, lol, perhaps we only need to get it started
Posted by Maximillion, Monday, 15 June 2009 4:25:44 PM
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If the market was there, why not. As it stands presently the government is practically driving people off the land fruit and veg farmers in particular. We are having to import more and more and are compelled to eat more and more imported rubbish at inflated prices.

As kangaroo meat can't be imported, I'm all for the idea but, and it is a BIG BUT, kangaroo meat is not to my liking nor many others in this country, most would probably only eat it if there was nothing else. We may eat it if was farmed and tasted better. At present that's why it is exported overseas, they like it; no telling taste! Kangaroo would have to be farmed and look what happened to the price of a good rabbit, which I am partial to once they were farmed. The price went up the humble rabbit lost all it's taste.

To the Skippy lovers, go out to the farmlands and see what farmers have to overcome with the numbers of kangaroos. It is certainly not an endangered species even though the numbers are culled. Consider what has happened in the NT and FNQ, crocodiles are protected and they eat people, get real! Do you really want to give the country over to animals for some esoteric belief.
Posted by RaeBee, Monday, 15 June 2009 5:46:27 PM
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