The problem with rabbits in Australia has a lot to do with our crap government. Lots of people would like to hunt them for a feed but are not aloud due to stupid land care laws. As a bow hunter I still hunt along creeks and take about 4-5 rabbits a week even if it is illegal I don't care. I make sure I get my feed and follow the laws of nature and not the stupid government.
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Not true, you can't eat rabbits anymore because of mixo. They are poisoned. In the 1960's we lived off rabbit often, there were lot's of people out rabbiting at night, there were traps everywhere. People could get paid for rabbit pelts (skins). When the disease in the 1990's was released, it worked pretty well for a while. We are only just starting to see rabbits around again.Plagues are seasonal, they come and go, but cats being controlled has enabled the mice plagues to get worse.
When I was a lad in Australia, rabbits were referred to as “Underground Mutton” and it was folklore that rabbits had saved the working class in the Great Depression. In my youth you could buy two rabbits, skinned and gutted for 25 cents.
Rabbit starvation occurs when you consume an excessive amount of lean meat, like rabbit. In fact, rabbits are one of the leanest types of meat available and a diet consisting strictly of rabbit can be deadly. Also known as protein poising, it occurs when your body is unable to metabolize large amounts of protein.
If I lived in Australia, I would gather all the camels together and send them all to countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait with the financial support of the state because these countries import wild camels from Djibouti because they love camel meat that has lived in the wild. I think an average wild camel costs 1.200 Riyal, that is 507 Australian Dollars. The Arab countries I mentioned import camels from Djibouti at a price of 275 Saudi Arabian Riyals, which costs 116 Australian Dollars. Arabs do not like sheep and cattle meat because those lands have always been arid throughout history, and since no other meat-eating animals other than camels and goats have grown, their meat culture has focused on these creatures. In fact, the prices of red coloured healthy camels with a single hump go up to 10.000 Saudi Arabian Riyal, which they usually buy for showing off. 10.000 Saudi Arabian Riyal is worth 4.200 Australian Dollars. I guess my biggest misfortune in life is that I was not born in Australia? NOTE: We Turks are not Arabs and we almost never eat camel meat and do not ride camels. I said this because there are many nations in the world who think we are Arabs. Avustralya'da tavşanların yediği mısır, havuç, lahana gibi tüm sebzeleri onlar için hazırladığım tuzaklara koyarak tavşanları toplar, sağlıklı genlere sahip olanları 30 gün besledikten sonra sadece 100 bin dişi olarak serbest bırakırdım. 100 bin erkeği ise tarımın olmadığı yerlere götüreceğim ama orada yaşamaları için ortamlar yaratacağım. Neden onları yaşatıp yetiştirmeyi tercih ettiğimi sorarsanız, tavşan eti Kuzey Amerika ve Avrupa'da tüketilen bir et türüdür ve kürkü de oldukça değerlidir. 30 gün bekletmemin nedeni ise tüm popülasyonun benim kontrolüm altında olması gerektiği için yuvalardaki yavru tavşanların ölmesidir.
In my Australian state pet rabbits are illegal. I worked in a pet shop. A customer came in asking for a pet rabbit. I told him we don’t sell them as they are illegal. He pointed to our display fridge and said, “but you sell rabbit food?”. I told him that wasn’t rabbit food, it was the rabbit. So I guess we did actually sell rabbits. Kangaroos too for that matter. Bone free and nicely packed.
I loved the taste of the rabbits where I used to hunt them in the Eastern Sierras, between Bishop CA and Mammoth Lakes, near Crowley Lake. Their primary food was Sagebrush and Alfalfa! Yummy!!! Wish I could try Kangaroo, but then I'm a Chef so I want to try every type of food, except super-hot peppers and chilis as my stomach just won't take the spiciness any longer. ;)
We use electric fences laid on the ground. There are different settings for them to be set off according to your specific infestation type. They kill a huge amount of mice at one time and its cheap and clean. No poisons.
My sister bought 4 rabbits. In 2 yrs she had like 2000 rabbits. Sold 3 bucks each to 1 buyer for meat. We kept all animal food in old freezers impossible for mice to enter. We kept all food in the house in secure room and buckets. If mice find food they will stay and more come. Never have food that mice can get into. Keep grass around buildings kept short and no junk laying around.
Hello, They are pronounced, "eem-yous" (not "ee-moos!) Australia's brush-tailed possums are invasive introduced pests in NZ! So they kill them and use the fur in socks, jumpers, etc-mixed with wool.
yes the aussy possum was introduced into NZ to start a fur trade, in the mid 1800s. Well they took off in a huge population explosion and literally stripped NZ native forests foliage off, to the extent that a lot of it was killed of by the possums. So, that caused a "kill them all" policy.....shooting, trapping, poisoning by amateur and pro possum hunters.......... and the possums are still breeding faster than anyone can kill them..... and they are also in the most remote places, where it is hard to reach. They are also a vector for TB, which affect cattle, deer and pigs...... so farmers of those animals are not happy with possums either.
I’m American tradesman, and we raise rabbits as sustainable protein, Joel salatin style tractors make it nearly free, and you get more/year out of 3 breeding rabbits then raising a steer. We also hunt & garden (a lot!) so rabbits are just a sustainable supplement
As a kid we got 3 rabbits. The first litter my rabbit had was 20, 18 survived. A year later there were 110+ rabbits. a 70 lb. bale of alfalfa would last them about a week. I think you get the picture.
@@ImSaixe Actually they were tasty and no, they don't taste like chicken. I'm not sure if I prefer roasted or stewed, both are good. I wouldn't recommend them for Easter dinner. Some people are pretty sensitive about that.
@@fredericsouthworth2707 We didn't feed grain to rabbits which leads to lean rabbits which is lean meat to start with. There is a bit of 'you are what you eat' in there. Grain fed deer has less flavor than wild grazed. I don't like when bambi gets into juniper, spruce or pine but I love when they browse on sage brush. I have eaten varying hare and those bony jack rabbits with a slightly stronger flavor than domestic.
@@spagooter1807 IN Alberta BUT we had a pretty bad go around with CWD up here as well. There are still pockets out there including where I consider the best bambi to come from. Mind you my 2nd favorite salmon ends up just north of Japan (Fukushima polluted) in their 4 year ocean journey. It's like I'm not allowed to enjoy my favorite wild foods.
Being an old Canadian farm boy who had a grampa that raised rabbits for food and fur. He did the butchering and tanning. There were always skins being stretched and processed in the barn. Quite a few years ago I read an article from spca telling parents not to give bunnies to kids at Easter because shelters were getting flooded by rabbits. My take on this is, give them bunnies on Easter then these are ready to eat on thanksgiving. An old farm boys take on this.
European NON FARMERS all used to raise bunnies for meat, the grass on the side of roads belonged to everybody so they were fed with that, my dad raised each year 6 pigs and plenty of Dutch bunnies, slaugthered a bunny every second Saturday. We butchered one pig ourselves in autumn and sold the 5 others to the butcher in the village.Our pigs were fed with kitchen and bakery leftovers. By the way the short eared Bunnies dig holes and long eared long hind legged rabbits don't , also the guy spoke about Camels in Australia as this are all DROMEDARY'S with only one bumb as Camels have 2 bumbs. Also Swiss are the wealthiest nation and still grow veggies instead of lawns even at high altitudes, I think with the present TrudeauFlation and Scam-Carbon Tax its time to start growing veggies and raising bunnies and chickens even in Canada ad thinking to make Turdope a Drama Teacher again in some prison.
They sell some rabbit commercially but it is rare. I’m 63, and as a boy mum would crumb and shallow fry them. Easy to eat like fried chicken and very nice…but too many people won’t eat “cute” animals.
@@colinr1960 In Europe on open markets bunnies are still sold ..(wild rabbits(long ears-long hind legs=wild) are tough and you have to make venison, domesticated bunnies are tender thats the difference, also always buy the bunnies with fur on their legs, often cats were sold as bunnies...I hunted wild rabbits in Canada and used to make venison with them...(shot their heads of with a 30-02, otherwise nothing is left).
Cant count how many of my PETS got invited to dinner ! But my bunny HERBY got to live very well and did a few tricks . Lived and died a bunny life when neighbors coonhound tore up his cage and killed him . Farm life .. my cousin had pet chickens and I never saw the point of that logic ,but was later diagnosed with schizophrenia . RIP Bobby
A few years ago in Americas there was a piolot plant that took slaughterhouse waste and turned it into gasoline and a high quality liquid plant fertilizer. Emu, rabbit, frog, and cammel could be caought and processed for food and the leftovers turedn into gas and fertilizer.
The emu war was in the 30s during a drought and they were invading farm crops. But theyre not a pest. In fact theyre a protected species and are on the coat of arms along with the kangaroo. Which is also protected but actually is considered a pest. There are more kangaroos here than people.
apparently the Emu and Kangaroo are on the Australian coat of arms because neither of them can move backward..... they have to hop or step forwards@@kerrydoutch5104
I live in Northern Virginia in the US. My backyard is full of trees and other plants and I wake up each morning to the sound of many birds, including nests of young birds. The other day I saw a long black snake and now I hear no chirping birds.
I was working on a farm when that last great plague of mice came through the Wagga Wagga region. We had a huge number of hay bales, about 12,000, from a great crop that year. EVERY. SINGLE. BALE. Was destroyed. By mice.
Wiradjuri word, Waga. It means "a place to dance". I grew up in Wagga, and I've been through several plagues. I'm now in Leeton. Don't call our place names silly, if you don't want us starting on the weird names in your country.
@@user-vf9ex4xl2p we ended up with two feral cats living in the hay shed, probably drawn by the mice, but by that time we had already lost most of our bales.
The same thing is happening with feral cats in El Paso, Texas. The City refuses to take action and is protecting the cats. In the mean time my neighbor is up to 15 cats which all use my yard aa a litter box and which I have to clean. And the smell!
In Kentucky they have a way of keeping neighbors animals off their property if the neighbors refuses to take care of the issue themselves, especially if the animal is destructive. And then they just don't tell the neighbor, everybody stays friends.
Geelong Advertiser (Victoria), Wednesday, December 28, 1859--True to his instincts as a good sportsman and therefore a good colonist, Mr Thomas Austin has just supplied a considerable addition to the sporting livestock (we cannot use the shorter word "game") of the colony. His contribution, which arrived per the Lightning, consists of 66 partridges, a couple of dozen of wild rabbits, and a few hares. The whole lot were remarkably well during the voyage, only one of the hares having died, and but a tithe of the partridges sharing the same fate. We trust, however, that Mr. Austin will use due caution in keeping his hares in proper duresse; otherwise, they will become as destructive a pest to the farmer here as they are in the old country.
Feral goats are a huge problem as well, if you drive between Burke and Broken Hill you will see hundreds of them. They almost introduced a snake that is able to eat the cane toads, thankfully someone with common sense stopped it. With the rabbits my dad when working on a sheep station in the fifties, used to just point the rifle in the paddock and shoot and would get a rabbit without having to aim.
In Canada wild rabbits (varying hare) turn white in the winter. This color change happens based on hours of daylight. In the late 70's we had really late snowfall that year and the rabbits had turned white before there was snow on the ground. Driving down the highway I saw 'a snowdrift' in the ditch. As I approached the 'snow drift' started moving across the highway. Picture 2 or 3 thousand rabbits crossing a highway in front of you while you are going 60MPH (100 KPH). Scary stuff.
I thought goat numbers were down now, due to farmers, during the last big drought dealing with the loss of income by actually bothering to go& round up the wild goats & sell them in the place of the sheep they normally sell. Same with water buffalo in the NT, numbers dropped when price in Vietnam rose enough to make it worthwhile to actually round them up & ship them there for $$$$
@@AutoCrete that would’ve been an interesting sight to see, picture this, thousands of vultures at a garbage dump in India. A moving carpet of birds is a sight I’ll never forget
No wonder almost all Autralian Men looks like a Hunter. Imagine waking up having a gator down at the floor, Whistling Spiders crawling on the ceiling, Red Foxes in the Kitchen.
New Zealand also has a problem with introduced species, two of which originated in Australia. These are the possum, the cute fluffy one, not the horror show US oppossum, and the wallaby. The possum is now well established and despite bounties being put on them, being hunted for their fur, (which has excellent insulating properties when made into a possim/wool blend material) and currently air dropped poison baits is currently being used against them. Wallabies are not so so common at this time but are spreading with increasing rapidity and are also considered a noxious animal. Sonperhaps it should not have been unexpected that when asked by an Australian conservation group for NZ to take and re home some koalas displaced by bushfires, NZ was not as receptive to the idea as they may have hoped. New Zealand has no native mammals other than two types of rare bat so is very vulnerable to ecological impact by these animals.
This sounds very logical until you realize that rabbits and foxes know each other as enemies and rabbits have a better knowledge and defense against foxes than the native Australian species. The same goes for mice and cats. Because of this, it is quite often very easier for foxes and cats to hunt other animals than their well-known prey. So, it turns out that the foxes and cats have much more prey to hunt (and easier to catch), and the rabbits and mice have an easier time, being hunt more seldom. In this case, all 4 species multiply exponentially. The biggest losers are the native species. This problem could be solved by itself after native species go extinct, which will make the 4 invasive species hunt each other more often, thus regulating their populations.
Thank you for addressing that a huge part of Australia's invasive species problem is the lack of large apex predators. People tend to forget that tens of thousands of years is not that long in terms of geography or evolution, and the food chains we have today are as fragmented now as they were when those species disappeared. Chances are if megalania, quinkana and thylocaleo were still around camels, horse, pigs and donkey would not be as a big of a problem. And studies have shown that cats and foxes avoid areas where huge concentrations of Tasmanian devils reside. That's why I am all for the careful reintroduction of Australian species still extant in other places. Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced to New South Whales, and people have pushed for the reintroduction of Komodo Dragons into habitats there fossils have been found. P.S. It's also good to note, dingos are naturalized species that were brought over by early Aboriginals, and it's believed they drove the mainland thylacine to extinction.
Yeah... but reintroducing a somewhat accurate copy of megalania wouldn't be a very good idea, since they would probably start eating both livestock and people
@@ppals3345 Though attacks by komodo dragons have happened, they are not considered man eaters. In fact, attacks are rare. Only 24 attack happened between 1974 and 2012 alone, and only 5 were fatal. Even then, most of these reported attack were the dragons being defensive. So much so they actively avoid people and can be easily deterred with nothing more than a stick if they do approach you. This is believed to be because we are not their natural prey, nor do we look like one. As for livestock, that's not a difficult remedy. Adult dragons are unable to climb, so adding a thin, smooth sheet of wood or metal along any fencing would be more than enough to keep them from climbing over.
@@1fishmob you do realize i'm talking about a 3.5-7 meter long extinct venomous lizard, right? i said megalania, not komodo dragon. if scientists were to bring back megalania, it would definetly not be deterred by a stick
Went to Australia 🇦🇺 in 2004 … had a wonderful experience, saw many fantastic places met loads a great people. Australia is still a beautiful country worth traveling to.
I have heard a wildlife biologist in the U.S. say that feral house cats are probably the most destructive animal there is. They will kill everything in their hunting area from small insects to the largest mammals possible. When that area is empty they move to a new area and start over again, and they are reproducing all of the time.
Yeah, I live on a rez and we have “rez dogs” and if I’m being honest, I’m glad we have them. Because we need mice for spiders, we need spiders for insects. When we had quite a few feral cats outside my apartment, we got a lot more spiders. Come the rez dogs, they equaled the playing field of evolution. I just don’t like the sound of cats getting man handled by dogs. It’s very sad and traumatizing.
@@Jarzula I have heard horror stories about the Rez dogs, and how they are gathered up an executed in mass. I don’t understand why reservations can’t take better care of their animals. I’ve also seen them take an entire herd of horses to be sold at auction. It really changed my outlook about Native Americans.
The real issue with cats in Australia & to a certain extent at least globally, but I'm not sure to what extent, is the toxins in their saliva. For Australian mammals & birds at least, even a scratch is a death sentence, so many animals will get away, but they will all be dead within 24 hours from the toxins in the teeth & claws It's really not just ferals that do it either, pet cats are possibly an even bigger issue, due to higher numbers than ferals & they still hunt to play & again, a tiny nick & the animal's dead, even if not eaten. btw for pet cats, for the owners who refuse to keep their cats inside & be responsible, there is an alternative that appears to work for song birds at least, those bright, colourful hair scrunchies from the 1980's, worn around their necks, near to eliminate successful stalking of songbirds. Songbirds are VERY colour aware. Cats can learn to move without activating bells, but they can't learn to avoid songbirds noticing the bright colours on the scrunchies, no matter what they do, songbirds are just evolutionarily programmed to ALWAYS notice & pay attention to & investigate bright colours, unlike bells where they pay attention for a short time, then dismiss it as nothing
Let me guess this biologist is a Democrat right ? The Democrats seem to have a odd obsession with castrating male cats and humans 🤦 But have no problem with drug dealers or homeless people freezing to death. Go to any Democrat City and you will see a ghetto and no I'm not a republican I'm just sick of hearing about how CAT'S are destroying America. And does your biologist cousin also believe Covid came from a wet market LOL 😂
There actually is a way that Australia is dealing with cane toads, in which snakes and birds over generations have learnt to not consume the cane toad completely as it's venom would kill it, but instead devour the gooey underbelly, leaving them unharmed.
Crows in particular have learned to flip and eviscerate the toads, and this is welcome news since air rifles and rowdy teenage boys have been vilified and banned.
Australian people don't eat them because of experiment done to them by the scientist to reduce the population of rabbit which might be harmful to humans
@@luphuong5239Well, dingoes were brought in by the aborigines, and we still don't know how many species extinct as the result of that because the aborigines don't leave detailed records of existimg native species.
@@luphuong5239 And it is becoming increasingly evident that the Australian megafauna - the time when there were gigantic kangaroos, wombats and many many other now extinct species - was destroyed by the indigenous native population. Same thing happened in north America where now extinct species like the wooly mammoth were made extinct by the incoming native Americans!
Every time when you mentioned when and how these evasive things were introduced to Australia, it always started with European or 1st colony of British settlers (aka ships containing prisoners, those that survived the voyage.). The human race has always caused its own problems. They needed camels to carry cargo and once they weren’t needed, they were let loose to fend for itself and they did great on their own until they became a problem and then they were hunted down and killed. Mankind doesn’t think before it goes ahead with a plan in these incidences. I think Australia is a beautiful place to live, especially along the coast, but I would never live there.
@@brakmaster Holy hell man learn some history. Where you you think all the megafauna went. Aboriginals arrived 50k years ago and Megafauna THEN declined. Now they are gone. Lets pretend the humans didn't do it. Then 'we' humans introduced dingoes. Do we have a species kill rate of one of the only predators in the country? Why were there almost no Thylacine's left in Tasmania when white man arrived? Human competition. Humans with attack dogs. Humans who burnt down forest with such a flagrant disregard for the environment that now almost the only trees we have left is the fire tolerant species. Overall the Aboriginals did FAR FAR more damage than the Brits did... but that's mostly because they had a long period to screw the environment over. The Brits just did it faster. What is the megafauna kill rate? Like 96% or something. Thats BRUTAL!
very very funny,,heres a fact.. roo meat is rare, no one eats it,,i do,, cos its roo.. but,, millions go into dog, cat food. as, not recomended for human consumption.. my cat gets roo mince with tuna, & a bit of tined cat food.. roo mince,, $11. kg.. tuna 400 gms, $00.90c
Rabbits are also an invasive species in the UK and its appears that the invasive rabbits in the UK were taken to Australia as an invasive species. Theres only so much rabbit stew you can eat in a lifetime, its lovely but not every single day 😂
Rabbits are native to Spain -actually the word "Hispalis" from which the word "Spain" or Hispania comes means "land of rabbits." Romans took them to Britain.
You can't eat exclusively rabbit meat though. I can't remember what it is, but eating too much rabbit causes a deficiency of some necessary protein or enzyme and can cause liver failure and death. Also, most of our wild rabbits carry myxomatosis and are therefore inedible. If you were to trap or hunt rabbits, which I did as a kid, like 1 out of 30 dead bunnies can be eaten safely.
As a US citizen, I understand. Australia is a continent on its own and has unique wildlife. Florida is being overrun by pythons and iguanas, invasive. Australia needs to defend its own.
You wanna try wiping out millions of invasive creatures on a continent the same size of north America, without wiping out native species. Also saying "any war" is a bit of a stretch and kinda disrespectful
Hm. And how is America doing with the hundreds of invasive species in their borders.... Oh, most of your population Doesn't Even Know; literally just the collective efforts of volunteers.
Yes! the rabbits in Australia are a problem but Australia is still a pretty amazing place and the rabbits have had their positive impact - during the great World Wide depression of the 1930's the rabbits were a source of food for the millions of and they were a source of food for the unemployed - something the native fauna could never have provided and one of the great Rugby League teams in the Sydney metropolitan area is called "The Rabbitohs" - named after the individuals who hunted the rabbit in order to keep the body and soul together. Same could not be said for the cat and the fox who are probably even greatly threats on the AUSTRALIAN ECOLOGY.
Rabbits are not a good source of food though(their meat is too lean) - unless one supplements it with fats and carbs; Otherwise you become sick quit soon.
I'm pretty sure if folks are hungry enough they'd eat cats. I can't recommend it though. They taste very hairy. Also they bite back. Seriously though cats while adorable & cuddly are murderous little psychos who will hunt even when not hungry. I've seen one from the outback & it was amazing how a normal housecat went back to their wild roots. They were also absolutely vicious. In a way I was happy that one got away. But they're so bad for the environment that I fully support them hunting them. I just ask that you do your best to give them a quick clean death. I love cats but there's places that they very much do not belong. If kept inside the damage can be mitigated. But there's also places, generally islands, where I fully support cats being fully banned outright. But I couldn't stand living there. So I don't. I also keep my cats inside unless leashed. Because I don't want them hurt or killing the few songbirds around.
@@Nirrrina We have a terrible problem with feral cats, here in Cyprus. Many cat owners just allow their cats to run free and don't generally spay/neuter them, despite having an island-wide, free service provided by many animal welfare charities. Why wouldn't people take advantage of this service? The majority of locals here are Greek Orthodox. They have a similar attitude towards 'fixing' their pets as Roman Catholics do towards birth control and abortion.
The poisonous toads have become such a problem to the few predators that tackle them that training native predators to not bite toads has become mainstream.
Lol! They're not trained, mate. They learned over time and passed the new information to successive generations. It's a very good example of evolution by natural selection, or survival of the fittest. There's no Magpie School of Eating Cane Toads safely...well, yet anyway.
@@fckthisalias I've lived in South Africa half my life and now I've been in Canada the other half of my 65 yrs!! And whenever a problem has arisen about too many rats or too many raccoons the government sorts it out quickly and us..the people..all do the follow up and the problem animal gets mostly sorted out. So I believe the government could not have acted quick enough right from the beginning and NOW r not spending the money it's gonna take to do the job once and for all...UNTILL it reaches there houses..then maybe!!
Unfortunately, we now have a new pest, the Varroa Mite which harms our bee industry The Government was going around destroying keepers hives in order to stop the spread, but it was all for nothing They recently advised that it is so out of control that there is nothing more they can do and we now just have to live with the problem Small comfort for those keepers who's livelihoods were destroyed
The Camel drinking from the water Bottle was so funny, love your channel😅🐪🐫 And yes Im an Aussie living in the most Isolated City in the World Perth 💕 I love Queensland but the Cane Toads freak me out so I could never live there🐸 we have little frogs in W.A they sound sweet and I live near a Reserve that has Kangaroos roam freely with their little baby joeys Adorable to see😇
"When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death." Seriously though, Australia must have fantastic hunting opportunities. In my part of Canada it's virtually impossible to feed yourself via hunting, but with no hunting limits on so many invasive species, Australia has to be the opposite. You could feed yourself entirely through hunting.
You could if it wasn’t so highly regulated, depending on which state you live its almost impossible. Gun use, bow use and even slingshots are regulated or banned, fresh water fishing and shell fish is regulated, trapping is regulated and some types outright banned, sea fish size and catch amount is regulated, some states are much worse then others.
@@alyssaoconnor Oh... so unlike us, it has the animals, but just like us, everything's massively overregulated. Probably it's the food industry pushing the government to implement these rules. Imagine if people could feed themselves... the horror.
@@alyssaoconnor we also don’t have public land it’s all national and state parks and no hunting is allowed in them unless your lucky enough to know a farmer that will give u access your shit outta luck
I'm from country Victoria, Australia. Hunting around this area is amazing. We have a variety of deer, some wild goats and a ton of rabbits. Huge sambar deer population in my area. And so many rabbits that I've had rabbit cooked every way possibly. One of the best recipients I came across was pork and fennel sausage taken out of the case and stuffed into the rabbit, the wrapped the rabbit in bacon. Classic French way with white wine, butter and cream is my second choice.
Here in New York we see cottontail rabbits from spring through summer but as time goes on the numbers dwindle. By the time rabbit season opens we don't see many at all. There are a lot of coyotes here.
You still can't even have a pet rabbit in my state in Australia to this day. Camel meat and milk is sold overseas but it is still a small industry. Our biggest problem is the distance we are from the rest of the world. We transport a huge number of camels to the middle east every year for races, food, etc. I remember as a child in Queensland, the home of cane toads, kicking about 20 of them away from the porch light each night when I got home. They are rarer now but only because they are travelling across the Northern Territory in vast numbers. They've developed super hoppers that are scouts. No joke. These toads have much longer legs and can travel faster and "scout" out good breeding grounds and food sources. Scientists only discovered them a few years ago. Cats are a problem but cats are very regulated now. They must be kept indoor at night, every one who owns a cat much register them, and everyone I know who has a cat has neutered them. Cats are usually sold neutered these days. Of course, there are useless humans who don't control their cats properly but they are becoming rarer as we've all realised the problems cats have caused. It's just difficult to eradicate them in the wild. I find it amazing when I regularly watch US videos of people who found a rescue kitten in the street. You just don't see that is Australia any more. Thanks for the great video. The other invasive species you forgot to mention is the kangaroo. It's not introduced but their numbers have to be culled occasionally as they reproduce so fast. The biggest problem in Australia is our dry climate and sparse vegetation, making it difficult it difficult for so many species to thrive, or even survive.
I'm sure you covered them in other videos, but feral pigs are probably the most destructive invasive species at the moment, with about 25 M of them and in the NT water buffalo are pretty destructive too.
Water buffalo have pretty much beef culled because of TB and the risk that this poses to the cattle industry which is big business in northern Australia.
@@stevemeredith9022 Thanks for that. I lived in Darwin about 25 years ago and they were a big problem then, but I'd say they are a lot easier to cull than pigs.
Yeah, Plagues are a real problem here, I have had to deal with a few bug plagues, the most notable two were what’s we refer to as the centipede plague and beetle plague. This was only something in my general area.
If I moved to Australia, I wouldn't even work. I would eat rabbit steak with salad every day. The problem is that here in Romania we are full of bears and we are not even allowed to hunt them
You'll have to get a bit more than infinite rabbits to take care of yourself in a free-maret economy, off-grid is a hard graft, harder than getting a paid job. If you hunt and sell them, you're self-employed. Btw, if bears get overpopulation in Romania, the hunting ban would likely be lifted eventually, but we on the North-Eatst side (and i guess most places) of Europe have run out of bears. A few here and there means nationally they're in the red book of endangered animals. Thing that you have so many means a healthy ecosystem.
"Nihaari" a famous delicious curry dish made of Camel meat.. very popular in India and Pakistan and of course many other regions.. might be a profitabl proposition for Australia..
Two rabbits breed like CRAZY. They have litters of six rabbits, and at just six weeks those six can have six etc etc. Two can become 2 million in about 4 years.
My family on my father's side, survived the hard depression years because they were not too proud to trap rabbits running wild on their properties. The only thing they had to worry about then were worms! Myxomatosis wasn't introduced until the 1950's. It's a disgusting way to try and handle a Problem. I should have realized how COVID would have been handled based on this performance. My illusions about the country that I so loved have been dissolved. I'm a disillusioned Australian. How have we turned into such a idiotic mob of compliant lemmings? And they in intellectual circles, still haven't learnt. How dumb can you allow yourself to get?
Rabbit starvation occurs when you consume an excessive amount of lean meat, like rabbit. In fact, rabbits are one of the leanest types of meat available and a diet consisting strictly of rabbit can be deadly. Also known as protein poising, it occurs when your body is unable to metabolize large amounts of protein.
I have watched CZcams videos on Middle Eastern cooking. Camel is an enormous process meant for celebratory dinners. Several peeps involved. They need more because it looked delish!
To some food is just food. I have a friend who raises rats. They are on a controlled diet and don't run wild. He eats them. It started with raisins rabbits. He ate a lot of rabbit growing up. So one day he wanted to know what rat tasted like and went to some Asian country and visited a village that ate them. Well long story short he is a really really good cook and you wouldn't know what you were eating unless you were told.
I am Indian, I met an Aussie tourist a few years back who complained why we Indians have stray dogs & some cows roaming around in India. I asked him if I should get started on Kangaroos, Foxes, Rabbits & other animals roaming free all over Australia - he stared at me for 2 seconds & mumbled beneath his breath "never mind".
More people die from Rabies from dog bites in India than in any other country in the world!!! A few years back a British tourist was bitten by a puppy on the beaches of Goa. She didn't think about Rabies until she showed up at the ER in the UK. By that time it was too late to save her. They put her in a coma and waited for her to die. Unfortunately most tourists are not aware of the acute Rabies problem in India, if they did they would not visit India. That, and the lack of hygiene make it dangerous for international tourists visiting India. I fail to understand your point????
@@Dan-xx5jq i am from India too buddy , you are right on this point , our friend here doesnt understand the difference between feralbanimals roaming freely and INVASIVE species !!! Yes , the cows are a hazard for traffic and yes the dogs are the carrier of rabies !
Lol being in wild and being in front of your car motorcycles , on roads streets is very different and Australia is very less populated and have way more free land for animals to live in wild 😂 another indian who will get triggered if someone points out the reality. The Australian said never mind because he was smart and knew that it ok to be silent than argue with someone like you (aka fool) and that arguing will only results in more of bullshit from your end😂
LMBFAO! Truly, “lessons are repeated until learned”! I’d eat a camel steak. Llama is good, too. (The answer to male llama aggression is “dinner is ready”) I’ve studied the problem of invasive, non- native animals, plants, and insects much of my life. And all I can do is shake my head. Humans are such idiots.
The Australuan Akubra hat was made from rabbit fur. About ten years ago the Calucu virus all but eradicated the rabbit and Stetson bought out Akubra. Inferiror woolen hats have largely replace the superior eabbit fur.
Some are surprised by how many times humans have screwed up in Australia. But honestly I'm not, the number of very stupid people in the world doing very stupid things will never shock me. More so since few ever consider the long term results of their choices.
People have screwed up just as much, if not more, in other places as well. The unique ecology of Australia makes the effects especially obvious, though.
The Perth Inquirer and Commercial News, Wednesday, May 11, 1859; Importation of British Game-The following is from the Geelong Advertiser of March 29: "Mr Ogilvie has just received (consigned to Mr Thomas Austin) a fine lot of English game, accompanied by a careful experienced gamekeeper, both from Somersetshire, per the Pioneer. The original consignment was very considerable - about 100 partridges, a few hares, the pheasants which have safely arrived, and some more which have died on the voyage out, and some blackbirds and thrushes. Unfortunately, the partridges could not stomach the brine. They all sickened and died before they had been three months out at sea. The hares, too, died, but more from fretfulness at want of room than of any specific disease. Several of the pheasants and of the singing birds died also, but 28 pheasants (pretty evenly mated) and two blackbirds and a thrush have landed safe and hearty."
In addition to leopards and foxes Australia should keep 1000 numbers of tigers and 1000 numbers of lions to control the population of camels and rabbits.
the rest of the world: Australia's horrors? venomous snakes and spiders perhaps? Aussies: The biggest wankers down under? Them rabbits, emus, camels, and bloody foxes.
@@BigZoe99 I wish they would have touched on that more, I'm from the us but I think the camel problem isn't really that bad because they are a massive target. You can't tell me that they can't shoot a lot of camels at once with a machine gun?
@@mitchweber7868 In 2009 an $AUUD19m campaign was funded and by 2013 had reduced the feral camel population from approx 6000 000 to approx 300 000. They can double in population every 8-10 yrs. They are in the central desert area of the country. The outback. Fairly inaccesible to joe average.. Cattle farmers and aboriginal land owners' land and water supplies are consumed and destryed by tcamels and they directly compete with wildlife for food resources . Hundreds of camels can be culled in a day but the carcasses are left to rot as there is no infrastructure to process them. Its too far from anywhere and theres little to no market for the meat. You wouldnt be able to just go out and hunt them with machine gun. A machine gun would not be allowed under our gun laws and you would need a special licences to own the appropriate firearm and one to hunt feral animals during the hunting season.
17:19 It's not financially feasible to kill for meat. Transporting from Interior to cities involves huge fuel costs. Also during summer need fridges in trucks etc. Meat is not in shortage in Australia. Other meat supplies are already well established .
I don't understand why food is a problem, I mean plenty of protein around. I can hardly go hungry in wild Australia. There is just too much choice every meal.
In spite of all this, as an Australian, I can assure you that the introduced humans (ie the first fleet and every other fleet thereafter) have had the most devastating impact on the wildlife and environment than all of these creatures combined.. And it seems they are only just warming up, as the technological age brings the humans into areas uninhabitable until now..
That's what I was thinking. Didn't England populate Australia trying to get rid of their "vermin?" People aren't vermin and either are other animals or critters!
Dont be racist against multiculteralism which is what Australia stands for. We are one but we are many and FROM ALL THE LANDS ON EARTH WE COME. practically a national anthem.
@@Caroline.123 Um no its not what most Australians stand for. Its forced upon us and a product of Americanisation, but the robots of society repeat this mantra over and over, as if it is true, or valid. The only thing that was "stolen", was the land. Everything else on top of it is 99.9% European culture and European efforts. Unity is strength, not division. "From all the lands on Earth we come" is not practically a national anthem, it is literally a verse from the national anthem. The national anthem was created in 1984, when Australia was basically still 95% European, so this is what is meant by that verse. Australia was settled by and built by and based upon in every single way, European culture. White Australians are European. Europeans are white. We come from Europe, all different parts of Europe. White culture is what they meant by multiculturalism back then, European culture is white culture, whether from England or Poland or Italy. Europeans are Europeans. All Europeans are white. The meaning of multiculturalism has changed, and ignorant Americanisation has poisoned Australia and Europe, imposing its stupidity and toxicity to our nations, where it doesnt apply. It is not racist to not want mass immigration from the third world for no other reason than virtue points. The only reason they allow mass immigration is get foreign workers to do the jobs Australians dont want to do, and at a lower cost. There is no other country on Earth, outside the white countries, that believe "diversity is strength". That phrase is propaganda and flawed in many ways, and is blatantly a lie, if you read history over the past 10s of thousands of years in every society on Earth, you would know why. Not only that, if you knew anything about the world outside the sheltered ignorant priviledged first world bubble of the white countries, you would realise that no other nation agrees or believes in or allows for "diversity" as it is against the best interests of the population of that nation, and is the opposite of unity, and has failed and lead to collapse of every society in human history that has allowed it. Only the white countries, mostly USA UK Western Europe and Australia, are ignorant to what is actually going on, the luxury of ignorance is only afforded to nations that have not ever experienced the outcomes of "diversity" and the whole radical marxist agenda thats being forced upon us today. Look at the history of poland for the last 1000 years, to get a better idea, before you robotic spew the moronic catch phrases that you have above. Think before you speak. Use your brain. Get some respect for yourself and your heritage. Learn about the world and history and humanity, past and present. Stop being a foot soldier for the corrupt elite, get some backbone. No other nations on Earth carry on like the idiotic white countries in this regard, as they live in reality, and have to work with the consequences of reality and hardship, where ignorance is not afforded. Research why the Roman Empire fell. Think for yourself, have discretion when interpreting information instead of scanning for key words and repeating robotic meaningless slogans. Ask what people think about this, ask people from every single country and culture outside the West, and see what they have to say about the bullshit the radical left is doing in our nations. But honestly, if people of our nations are this stupid, we deserve to be erased and replaced. No peoples this pathetic and moronic should be allowed to take from granted the incredible abundance and luxury of what European culture has given the entire planet, due to the inability of typing in a few sentences into google to understand what they are talking about before they open they mouths. There are so many other less fortunate people in the world that deserve what you take for granted. Do a swap for someone in Afghanistan for the position you are in right now, give someone more deserving and educated your position, people like you dnt deserve to live here, and will cause nothing but entire collapse of our civilisation. You have no understanding of how humanity works, how society works, human psychology, anthropology, human history and culture, politican science. What you are saying is what is actually racist, as its an absolute insult to the entire planet who would do anything to be in your position and would be 100x more greatful, and would 100x more be against "multiculturalism" from the 3rd world. The only reason "diversity" exists in the world to begin with, is due to the human nature of unity to ones group. You are voting away everything that you care about and your quality of life. Ask anyone from the real world, and they will tell you. Have a look at Sweden and Germany since 2015 onwards. Theres a thousand other examples. The main reason i support multiculturalism from the 3rd world is now because i realise how much they deserve to live here more than people like you. I dont want a nation with these ignorant beliefs to survive. At least people from the 3rd world will be against "multiculturalism" when they get here. You clearly know nothing about the world or humanity. Nothing. An insult to the suffering and hardships of all peoples on Earth that live in the 3rd world. You dont know what the word "racist" means. White people/europeans, have given 10x more to the entire world than they have taken from it. European culture has improved the lives of billions of people around the world, provided the world with thousands of years worth of advancement for free. European culture has provided the blueprint from the entire modern world. European/white people and nations are the most hospitable, tolerant, generous and moral of all on Earth. Europeans/white people are the only peoples who enforce human rights around the world, and give 10s of billions $$ to other nations and peoples every year, but are so ignorant to this reality, which allows for idiots like you. Europeans/white people have done the least amount of harm, and 10x the amount of good, of any other peoples past present and future. Every "waysist" thing you claim about white countries, is 10x as bad in every other single nation culture country and religion on Earth since the dawn of time. Only someone ignorant of their own people and everything in existence, share "opinions" aka programming such as yours. You are the real racist, as you have no understanding of reality, and only care to look virtuous based on zero logic and childish emotions and ideals, because it makes you feel significant and important, to have a saviour complex and look down upon other peoples of the world. Its pathetic, and not genuine, and is the real definition of everything thats wrong with humanity. Get educated. Be a real person. Get some values of your own. Use your own brain. Go travel to every other country on Earth, then get back to me on your "opinions".
We as a species managed to drive thousands of species to extinction with more primitive tech - to tackle invasive species, we have to instill a "kill on site" mentality toward them, and not have such things viewed as taboo. Unfortunately, urbanization has disconnected most people from the realities of this. It takes a massive concerted effort of the people to tackle an issue like this!
I guess rats are an unfortunate reality of the wheat industry, not just for Australia. Nice to know the flour, and other wheat products, we’re using is full of rat fur, dander, urine, and droppings. And since the rats are constantly screwing, rat seme… Gives it a seasoned, nutty flavor. 😂
There is a Big market for Aussies Camels in Middle East. Camel Race in Gulf countries. Camel meat too. Old generation use Camel meat as medicine too (High Blood pressure)
Your video report was excellent and very interesting. Two mice in the apartment were enough for me! The number of birds in southern Germany has also decreased a lot in the last two years. I'll go to the supermarket and see what's on offer for meat from Australia. Then take good care of your cute koalas!
Australian crocodile steak is pretty good. Also Barramundi and emu are yummy My dog eats kangaroo, but I think they are to cute to eat. Koalas aren’t as cute as you think, they are noisy at night during mating season, they sound like a monster.
They sound like cute monsters. They are very cute. It seems to be fashionable to pretend our cute wildlife are not really cute, but they are.@@NGC-catseye
People these days under utilize moats. Our moattechnology could be so far by now if we used them more. Farms already dig for canals, keep digging and make a moat, fill it with lethal stuffs, no rats no fox, no emu, no nothing, lolz. Just a lot of hard work digging
@@jilllangman9343 the moat doesn't have to be filled with water, its just a big trench hole. Most animals won't be able to figure a way across and back up
Growing up our favourite pasttime was hunting hares and small gazelles. We used to chase them at a sprint for 4-5 kilometres nonstop. Nowadays I can barely jog 2 kilometres. I think we hunted them to extinction too
I was waiting for this to mention the Feral Pigs, Water Buffalo or feral Deer populations as well... This is why I support the Channels of Australian Hunters who go out and actively Hunt these invasive Pests, especially the Guys who use the Night Vision Scopes. I always chuckle when the Cat Lovers get up in arms over the Hunters killing Feral Cats. I have encountered these personally in the wild, and some are HUGE! In the 60's my Best friend in School lost his young Sister to a Feral Cat attack, sounds unbelievable, but it was true.
And horses, Kosiosco national park is being smashed under hoof by thousands of Brumbies. You want so see crazy? you wait till you see what crawls out from under the stones when you suggest shooting feral horses (Brumbies).
There are so many different invasive species of animals in Australia. Rabbits are common in mainland Australia and everywhere in Tasmania. Its hard to walk around in Queensland and not walk on a canetoad. Foxes are plenty, buffalo in the Northern Territory . Camels in most of Australia. Foxes everywhere. Its hard to walk in the evening in Queensland without walking on a cane toad. Carp in nearly every fresh waterway. Feral cats feasting on the local native wildlife. The list goes on and on. And that includes humans.
An old farmer told me what it was like this way. They would poison a barrel of thistles overnight and then spread them across the field. Next morning there was a row of dead rabbits 6ft wide . They plow in the rabbits and repeat the process ....every day
Wild goats is a massive problem, English red fin fish , European carp, Indian minor birds. Hundreds of pests. That’s why border security is such a huge thing at our borders.
@@Blackpill149 they don’t taste good, I’ve even seen Asian people say oh great we will take the catch and next day I offered more they said nope it taste of muddy flavours what ever that means I don’t eat anything out of ocean or river.
Maybe once but as a veteran of the transport industry I can tell you that our bio security measures have been watered down bit by bit for decades mainly to accommodate Chinese imports. Which is the place alongside the Middle East that bio security measures should have been increased due to common bacteria and parasites that are benign there but being new here are a much bigger problem.
The problem with rabbits in Australia has a lot to do with our crap government. Lots of people would like to hunt them for a feed but are not aloud due to stupid land care laws. As a bow hunter I still hunt along creeks and take about 4-5 rabbits a week even if it is illegal I don't care. I make sure I get my feed and follow the laws of nature and not the stupid government.
I wish I could reply but YT restricted me for hate speech. Evidently someone took it the wrong way when I told them that they, or someone they know? maybe?, were idiots.
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Not true, you can't eat rabbits anymore because of mixo. They are poisoned. In the 1960's we lived off rabbit often, there were lot's of people out rabbiting at night, there were traps everywhere. People could get paid for rabbit pelts (skins). When the disease in the 1990's was released, it worked pretty well for a while. We are only just starting to see rabbits around again.Plagues are seasonal, they come and go, but cats being controlled has enabled the mice plagues to get worse.
@@carolthorson7854 seems like your government IS trying to kill you off.
Why lie?
@buskingkarma2503 question. You seem to be responding to Robertrozek1206 but your reply doesn't make sense in that context.
When I was a lad in Australia, rabbits were referred to as “Underground Mutton” and it was folklore that rabbits had saved the working class in the Great Depression. In my youth you could buy two rabbits, skinned and gutted for 25 cents.
underground sheep lends a whole new wholly terrestrial dimension to our historic idea of the ozi sheepshagger
Rabbit starvation occurs when you consume an excessive amount of lean meat, like rabbit.
In fact, rabbits are one of the leanest types of meat available and a diet consisting strictly of rabbit can be deadly.
Also known as protein poising, it occurs when your body is unable to metabolize large amounts of protein.
Squirrels and rabbits helped many families to survive during the great depression,,, mine included
@@snarkdivaWhen you eat carbs,you dont need much fat anyway.And protein is not poisonous in any ammount
If I lived in Australia, I would gather all the camels together and send them all to countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait with the financial support of the state because these countries import wild camels from Djibouti because they love camel meat that has lived in the wild. I think an average wild camel costs 1.200 Riyal, that is 507 Australian Dollars. The Arab countries I mentioned import camels from Djibouti at a price of 275 Saudi Arabian Riyals, which costs 116 Australian Dollars. Arabs do not like sheep and cattle meat because those lands have always been arid throughout history, and since no other meat-eating animals other than camels and goats have grown, their meat culture has focused on these creatures. In fact, the prices of red coloured healthy camels with a single hump go up to 10.000 Saudi Arabian Riyal, which they usually buy for showing off. 10.000 Saudi Arabian Riyal is worth 4.200 Australian Dollars. I guess my biggest misfortune in life is that I was not born in Australia?
NOTE: We Turks are not Arabs and we almost never eat camel meat and do not ride camels. I said this because there are many nations in the world who think we are Arabs.
Avustralya'da tavşanların yediği mısır, havuç, lahana gibi tüm sebzeleri onlar için hazırladığım tuzaklara koyarak tavşanları toplar, sağlıklı genlere sahip olanları 30 gün besledikten sonra sadece 100 bin dişi olarak serbest bırakırdım. 100 bin erkeği ise tarımın olmadığı yerlere götüreceğim ama orada yaşamaları için ortamlar yaratacağım. Neden onları yaşatıp yetiştirmeyi tercih ettiğimi sorarsanız, tavşan eti Kuzey Amerika ve Avrupa'da tüketilen bir et türüdür ve kürkü de oldukça değerlidir.
30 gün bekletmemin nedeni ise tüm popülasyonun benim kontrolüm altında olması gerektiği için yuvalardaki yavru tavşanların ölmesidir.
In my Australian state pet rabbits are illegal. I worked in a pet shop. A customer came in asking for a pet rabbit. I told him we don’t sell them as they are illegal. He pointed to our display fridge and said, “but you sell rabbit food?”. I told him that wasn’t rabbit food, it was the rabbit. So I guess we did actually sell rabbits. Kangaroos too for that matter. Bone free and nicely packed.
I loved the taste of the rabbits where I used to hunt them in the Eastern Sierras, between Bishop CA and Mammoth Lakes, near Crowley Lake. Their primary food was Sagebrush and Alfalfa! Yummy!!! Wish I could try Kangaroo, but then I'm a Chef so I want to try every type of food, except super-hot peppers and chilis as my stomach just won't take the spiciness any longer. ;)
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Bone free?I want to taste the bonemarrow of rabbits
Too funny, i had to eat rabbits and i love the taste!
Wow well ok. Humans need protein.
We use electric fences laid on the ground. There are different settings for them to be set off according to your specific infestation type. They kill a huge amount of mice at one time and its cheap and clean. No poisons.
What Australia really needs is a cookbook😂
I would say oom, camel o.nomnom, rabit omnom omnon ooh oooh oooh
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Yes, put them on the menu and start a marketing campain
Absolutely! A cook book and fat Americans to eat. 😅
Take the mouse, atuff inside cane toad, stuff cane toad in rabbit, stuff rabbit in fox, stuff fox in camel Throw it on the bar b.
My sister bought 4 rabbits. In 2 yrs she had like 2000 rabbits. Sold 3 bucks each to 1 buyer for meat. We kept all animal food in old freezers impossible for mice to enter. We kept all food in the house in secure room and buckets. If mice find food they will stay and more come. Never have food that mice can get into. Keep grass around buildings kept short and no junk laying around.
Hello,
They are pronounced, "eem-yous" (not "ee-moos!)
Australia's brush-tailed possums are invasive introduced pests in NZ! So they kill them and use the fur in socks, jumpers, etc-mixed with wool.
yes the aussy possum was introduced into NZ to start a fur trade, in the mid 1800s. Well they took off in a huge population explosion and literally stripped NZ native forests foliage off, to the extent that a lot of it was killed of by the possums. So, that caused a "kill them all" policy.....shooting, trapping, poisoning by amateur and pro possum hunters.......... and the possums are still breeding faster than anyone can kill them..... and they are also in the most remote places, where it is hard to reach. They are also a vector for TB, which affect cattle, deer and pigs...... so farmers of those animals are not happy with possums either.
They kill the possums in droves, but it is an impossible task. The NZ habitat is being destroyed.
As an Aussie, when I moved to NZ was so surprised that people so willingly killed possums.
I’m American tradesman, and we raise rabbits as sustainable protein, Joel salatin style tractors make it nearly free, and you get more/year out of 3 breeding rabbits then raising a steer. We also hunt & garden (a lot!) so rabbits are just a sustainable supplement
As a kid we got 3 rabbits. The first litter my rabbit had was 20, 18 survived. A year later there were 110+ rabbits. a 70 lb. bale of alfalfa would last them about a week. I think you get the picture.
so umm. are they tasty?
@@ImSaixe Actually they were tasty and no, they don't taste like chicken. I'm not sure if I prefer roasted or stewed, both are good. I wouldn't recommend them for Easter dinner. Some people are pretty sensitive about that.
@@AutoCrete Wild rabbits sure but alfalfa hay plus grain = fat bunny that doesn't taste that great in my opinion
@@fredericsouthworth2707 We didn't feed grain to rabbits which leads to lean rabbits which is lean meat to start with. There is a bit of 'you are what you eat' in there. Grain fed deer has less flavor than wild grazed. I don't like when bambi gets into juniper, spruce or pine but I love when they browse on sage brush. I have eaten varying hare and those bony jack rabbits with a slightly stronger flavor than domestic.
@@spagooter1807 IN Alberta BUT we had a pretty bad go around with CWD up here as well. There are still pockets out there including where I consider the best bambi to come from. Mind you my 2nd favorite salmon ends up just north of Japan (Fukushima polluted) in their 4 year ocean journey. It's like I'm not allowed to enjoy my favorite wild foods.
Being an old Canadian farm boy who had a grampa that raised rabbits for food and fur. He did the butchering and tanning. There were always skins being stretched and processed in the barn. Quite a few years ago I read an article from spca telling parents not to give bunnies to kids at Easter because shelters were getting flooded by rabbits. My take on this is, give them bunnies on Easter then these are ready to eat on thanksgiving. An old farm boys take on this.
European NON FARMERS all used to raise bunnies for meat, the grass on the side of roads belonged to everybody so they were fed with that, my dad raised each year 6 pigs and plenty of Dutch bunnies, slaugthered a bunny every second Saturday. We butchered one pig ourselves in autumn and sold the 5 others to the butcher in the village.Our pigs were fed with kitchen and bakery leftovers. By the way the short eared Bunnies dig holes and long eared long hind legged rabbits don't , also the guy spoke about Camels in Australia as this are all DROMEDARY'S with only one bumb as Camels have 2 bumbs. Also Swiss are the wealthiest nation and still grow veggies instead of lawns even at high altitudes, I think with the present TrudeauFlation and Scam-Carbon Tax its time to start growing veggies and raising bunnies and chickens even in Canada ad thinking to make Turdope a Drama Teacher again in some prison.
They sell some rabbit commercially but it is rare. I’m 63, and as a boy mum would crumb and shallow fry them. Easy to eat like fried chicken and very nice…but too many people won’t eat “cute” animals.
@@colinr1960 In Europe on open markets bunnies are still sold ..(wild rabbits(long ears-long hind legs=wild) are tough and you have to make venison, domesticated bunnies are tender thats the difference, also always buy the bunnies with fur on their legs, often cats were sold as bunnies...I hunted wild rabbits in Canada and used to make venison with them...(shot their heads of with a 30-02, otherwise nothing is left).
Cant count how many of my PETS got invited to dinner ! But my bunny HERBY got to live very well and did a few tricks . Lived and died a bunny life when neighbors coonhound tore up his cage and killed him . Farm life .. my cousin had pet chickens and I never saw the point of that logic ,but was later diagnosed with schizophrenia . RIP Bobby
@HansJuergBangerter ... a dromedary is a type of camel so there's no need to correct him 😅😂
A few years ago in Americas there was a piolot plant that took slaughterhouse waste and turned it into gasoline and a high quality liquid plant fertilizer. Emu, rabbit, frog, and cammel could be caought and processed for food and the leftovers turedn into gas and fertilizer.
The emu war was in the 30s during a drought and they were invading farm crops. But theyre not a pest. In fact theyre a protected species and are on the coat of arms along with the kangaroo. Which is also protected but actually is considered a pest. There are more kangaroos here than people.
apparently the Emu and Kangaroo are on the Australian coat of arms because neither of them can move backward..... they have to hop or step forwards@@kerrydoutch5104
I live in Northern Virginia in the US. My backyard is full of trees and other plants and I wake up each morning to the sound of many birds, including nests of young birds. The other day I saw a long black snake and now I hear no chirping birds.
What do you hear outside?
@larrysorenson4789 she may heard shhhhh sshhh ssshh shhh 🐍
I was working on a farm when that last great plague of mice came through the Wagga Wagga region. We had a huge number of hay bales, about 12,000, from a great crop that year. EVERY. SINGLE. BALE. Was destroyed. By mice.
thats what u get for having a silly name
That's not funny it probably the aboriginies that name that regions.
Wiradjuri word, Waga. It means "a place to dance". I grew up in Wagga, and I've been through several plagues. I'm now in Leeton. Don't call our place names silly, if you don't want us starting on the weird names in your country.
Needed some Kitties ! Sorry for your loss.
@@user-vf9ex4xl2p we ended up with two feral cats living in the hay shed, probably drawn by the mice, but by that time we had already lost most of our bales.
The same thing is happening with feral cats in El Paso, Texas. The City refuses to take action and is protecting the cats. In the mean time my neighbor is up to 15 cats which all use my yard aa a litter box and which I have to clean. And the smell!
I love cats have two ( fixed, chipped and contained ). But if they are not that they have to go, by any means possible. au
Lord knows ...that smell....is torture
Ok karen
In Kentucky they have a way of keeping neighbors animals off their property if the neighbors refuses to take care of the issue themselves, especially if the animal is destructive. And then they just don't tell the neighbor, everybody stays friends.
@@kyfarmwhat, you eat them?!
Geelong Advertiser (Victoria), Wednesday, December 28, 1859--True to his instincts as a good sportsman and therefore a good colonist, Mr Thomas Austin has just supplied a considerable addition to the sporting livestock (we cannot use the shorter word "game") of the colony. His contribution, which arrived per the Lightning, consists of 66 partridges, a couple of dozen of wild rabbits, and a few hares. The whole lot were remarkably well during the voyage, only one of the hares having died, and but a tithe of the partridges sharing the same fate. We trust, however, that Mr. Austin will use due caution in keeping his hares in proper duresse; otherwise, they will become as destructive a pest to the farmer here as they are in the old country.
5:20 I wondered how long it would be until the inevitable Monty Python reference 😂
Feral goats are a huge problem as well, if you drive between Burke and Broken Hill you will see hundreds of them. They almost introduced a snake that is able to eat the cane toads, thankfully someone with common sense stopped it. With the rabbits my dad when working on a sheep station in the fifties, used to just point the rifle in the paddock and shoot and would get a rabbit without having to aim.
If it's legal to hunt them, just shoot, pick, season, roast, eat, repeat.
In Canada wild rabbits (varying hare) turn white in the winter. This color change happens based on hours of daylight. In the late 70's we had really late snowfall that year and the rabbits had turned white before there was snow on the ground. Driving down the highway I saw 'a snowdrift' in the ditch. As I approached the 'snow drift' started moving across the highway. Picture 2 or 3 thousand rabbits crossing a highway in front of you while you are going 60MPH (100 KPH). Scary stuff.
I thought goat numbers were down now, due to farmers, during the last big drought dealing with the loss of income by actually bothering to go& round up the wild goats & sell them in the place of the sheep they normally sell. Same with water buffalo in the NT, numbers dropped when price in Vietnam rose enough to make it worthwhile to actually round them up & ship them there for $$$$
@@illzn06 👍
@@AutoCrete that would’ve been an interesting sight to see, picture this, thousands of vultures at a garbage dump in India. A moving carpet of birds is a sight I’ll never forget
No wonder almost all Autralian Men looks like a Hunter. Imagine waking up having a gator down at the floor, Whistling Spiders crawling on the ceiling, Red Foxes in the Kitchen.
Sounds like Florida
You have never been to Australia and probably never even seen footage of Australia if this isn’t satire
There ain’t no native alligators here, just big arse crocs that could probably eat a gator for lunch.
It's not so bad
Sounds like a hearty breakfast.
New Zealand also has a problem with introduced species, two of which originated in Australia. These are the possum, the cute fluffy one, not the horror show US oppossum, and the wallaby.
The possum is now well established and despite bounties being put on them, being hunted for their fur, (which has excellent insulating properties when made into a possim/wool blend material) and currently air dropped poison baits is currently being used against them.
Wallabies are not so so common at this time but are spreading with increasing rapidity and are also considered a noxious animal.
Sonperhaps it should not have been unexpected that when asked by an Australian conservation group for NZ to take and re home some koalas displaced by bushfires, NZ was not as receptive to the idea as they may have hoped.
New Zealand has no native mammals other than two types of rare bat so is very vulnerable to ecological impact by these animals.
We introduced possums deliberately because they are illegal to turn in to hats here. Thanks cuz!
Rabbit meat is so expensive to buy in Sydney, $16 each!
If they reduce the price, people will buy 😢
You would think the foxes would keep the rabbits in check and the cats would keep the mice in check. I guess not.
No, the native animals don't have millennia of experience with foxes and cats so they're easier to hunt.
in australia everything interbreeds so you never know which is what
This sounds very logical until you realize that rabbits and foxes know each other as enemies and rabbits have a better knowledge and defense against foxes than the native Australian species. The same goes for mice and cats. Because of this, it is quite often very easier for foxes and cats to hunt other animals than their well-known prey.
So, it turns out that the foxes and cats have much more prey to hunt (and easier to catch), and the rabbits and mice have an easier time, being hunt more seldom. In this case, all 4 species multiply exponentially. The biggest losers are the native species.
This problem could be solved by itself after native species go extinct, which will make the 4 invasive species hunt each other more often, thus regulating their populations.
The rabbits allowed the foxs to breed to the extent they are at now
@@georgygeorgiev8882Why australians dont hunt and eat them?
Thank you for addressing that a huge part of Australia's invasive species problem is the lack of large apex predators. People tend to forget that tens of thousands of years is not that long in terms of geography or evolution, and the food chains we have today are as fragmented now as they were when those species disappeared.
Chances are if megalania, quinkana and thylocaleo were still around camels, horse, pigs and donkey would not be as a big of a problem. And studies have shown that cats and foxes avoid areas where huge concentrations of Tasmanian devils reside. That's why I am all for the careful reintroduction of Australian species still extant in other places. Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced to New South Whales, and people have pushed for the reintroduction of Komodo Dragons into habitats there fossils have been found.
P.S. It's also good to note, dingos are naturalized species that were brought over by early Aboriginals, and it's believed they drove the mainland thylacine to extinction.
Just eat ‘em!
Yeah... but reintroducing a somewhat accurate copy of megalania wouldn't be a very good idea, since they would probably start eating both livestock and people
@@ppals3345 Though attacks by komodo dragons have happened, they are not considered man eaters. In fact, attacks are rare. Only 24 attack happened between 1974 and 2012 alone, and only 5 were fatal. Even then, most of these reported attack were the dragons being defensive. So much so they actively avoid people and can be easily deterred with nothing more than a stick if they do approach you. This is believed to be because we are not their natural prey, nor do we look like one.
As for livestock, that's not a difficult remedy. Adult dragons are unable to climb, so adding a thin, smooth sheet of wood or metal along any fencing would be more than enough to keep them from climbing over.
"A dingo ate my baby!"
---Distraught australian mother
@@1fishmob you do realize i'm talking about a 3.5-7 meter long extinct venomous lizard, right? i said megalania, not komodo dragon. if scientists were to bring back megalania, it would definetly not be deterred by a stick
Went to Australia 🇦🇺 in 2004 … had a wonderful experience, saw many fantastic places met loads a great people. Australia is still a beautiful country worth traveling to.
Not to forget their beautiful accent!❤❤❤
Ill stay in my country so i do t die by shark or crock attack
@@touchgrass-zk2qiyou’re more likely to get stomped by a roo rather than a shark or croc mate
It's changed a lot since then.
"Australia is still a beautiful country worth traveling to." Despite the best efforts of white people, you mean?
How do you keep making these? I have been watching for years and still not scratched the surface!
I have heard a wildlife biologist in the U.S. say that feral house cats are probably the most destructive animal there is. They will kill everything in their hunting area from small insects to the largest mammals possible. When that area is empty they move to a new area and start over again, and they are reproducing all of the time.
Yeah, I live on a rez and we have “rez dogs” and if I’m being honest, I’m glad we have them. Because we need mice for spiders, we need spiders for insects. When we had quite a few feral cats outside my apartment, we got a lot more spiders. Come the rez dogs, they equaled the playing field of evolution. I just don’t like the sound of cats getting man handled by dogs. It’s very sad and traumatizing.
@@Jarzula I have heard horror stories about the Rez dogs, and how they are gathered up an executed in mass. I don’t understand why reservations can’t take better care of their animals. I’ve also seen them take an entire herd of horses to be sold at auction. It really changed my outlook about Native Americans.
Ya clicked me off/3-Times!
Can't take Criticism? NZ ✌♥️🙏🙏👍😎the videos!
The real issue with cats in Australia & to a certain extent at least globally, but I'm not sure to what extent, is the toxins in their saliva. For Australian mammals & birds at least, even a scratch is a death sentence, so many animals will get away, but they will all be dead within 24 hours from the toxins in the teeth & claws
It's really not just ferals that do it either, pet cats are possibly an even bigger issue, due to higher numbers than ferals & they still hunt to play & again, a tiny nick & the animal's dead, even if not eaten.
btw for pet cats, for the owners who refuse to keep their cats inside & be responsible, there is an alternative that appears to work for song birds at least, those bright, colourful hair scrunchies from the 1980's, worn around their necks, near to eliminate successful stalking of songbirds. Songbirds are VERY colour aware. Cats can learn to move without activating bells, but they can't learn to avoid songbirds noticing the bright colours on the scrunchies, no matter what they do, songbirds are just evolutionarily programmed to ALWAYS notice & pay attention to & investigate bright colours, unlike bells where they pay attention for a short time, then dismiss it as nothing
Let me guess this biologist is a Democrat right ? The Democrats seem to have a odd obsession with castrating male cats and humans 🤦 But have no problem with drug dealers or homeless people freezing to death. Go to any Democrat City and you will see a ghetto and no I'm not a republican I'm just sick of hearing about how CAT'S are destroying America. And does your biologist cousin also believe Covid came from a wet market LOL 😂
There actually is a way that Australia is dealing with cane toads, in which snakes and birds over generations have learnt to not consume the cane toad completely as it's venom would kill it, but instead devour the gooey underbelly, leaving them unharmed.
Is that true? How amazing 🙂
"A cane toad ate my baby!"
---Distraught australian mother
@@jetplane10 Yeah I heard about it in an article.
@@McDazzle isn't that so clever that animals learn to avoid the venomous parts 🐸
Crows in particular have learned to flip and eviscerate the toads, and this is welcome news since air rifles and rowdy teenage boys have been vilified and banned.
Imagine losing a war to a flock of birds...
lol🤣
our biggest issue is the logging and over-grazing of livestock, instead of rotational grazing.
Regenerative farming solves so many problems WE have created in nature!
Rabbit Infestation
Australians: Hell
Nigerians: Heaven
Rabbit meat is good to eat. Why don't the people just cook them?
@@MS-60663 if they switched land space with Nigerians.. i assure you that all the rabbits would become endangered in a month.
@@aaronokafor1354And then Nigerians will become invasive species instead. 😅
@@MS-60663Too many rabbits, too few Australians.
Australian people don't eat them because of experiment done to them by the scientist to reduce the population of rabbit which might be harmful to humans
I knew about the mice, rabbits and camels but not the emues. Learn something new every time I watch your videos. You guys do a great job! Thank you.
And these invasive species share the same common. They were all brought here by "ENGLISH MEN".
@@luphuong5239Well, dingoes were brought in by the aborigines, and we still don't know how many species extinct as the result of that because the aborigines don't leave detailed records of existimg native species.
@@luphuong5239 And it is becoming increasingly evident that the Australian megafauna - the time when there were gigantic kangaroos, wombats and many many other now extinct species - was destroyed by the indigenous native population. Same thing happened in north America where now extinct species like the wooly mammoth were made extinct by the incoming native Americans!
I only knew about emu's
@@_a_ss Emus are still extremely numerous!
Every time when you mentioned when and how these evasive things were introduced to Australia, it always started with European or 1st colony of British settlers (aka ships containing prisoners, those that survived the voyage.).
The human race has always caused its own problems. They needed camels to carry cargo and once they weren’t needed, they were let loose to fend for itself and they did great on their own until they became a problem and then they were hunted down and killed.
Mankind doesn’t think before it goes ahead with a plan in these incidences. I think Australia is a beautiful place to live, especially along the coast, but I would never live there.
Yes for every single problem present in our modern-day society 9 out of 10 times it is the British to blame.
@@brakmaster Holy hell man learn some history. Where you you think all the megafauna went. Aboriginals arrived 50k years ago and Megafauna THEN declined. Now they are gone. Lets pretend the humans didn't do it. Then 'we' humans introduced dingoes. Do we have a species kill rate of one of the only predators in the country? Why were there almost no Thylacine's left in Tasmania when white man arrived? Human competition. Humans with attack dogs. Humans who burnt down forest with such a flagrant disregard for the environment that now almost the only trees we have left is the fire tolerant species.
Overall the Aboriginals did FAR FAR more damage than the Brits did... but that's mostly because they had a long period to screw the environment over. The Brits just did it faster. What is the megafauna kill rate? Like 96% or something. Thats BRUTAL!
Great information / Grating presentation.
"How a Rich Man With 24 Rabbits Turned Australia Into HELL"
Gotta love the stupid rich people!
That's a whole lot of dogfood waiting to be harvested for export.
very very funny,,heres a fact.. roo meat is rare, no one eats it,,i do,, cos its roo.. but,, millions go into dog, cat food. as, not recomended for human consumption.. my cat gets roo mince with tuna, & a bit of tined cat food.. roo mince,, $11. kg.. tuna 400 gms, $00.90c
I just watched the Farming Documentary, and it was incredibly informative!
When dealing with animal numbers there are 2 pretty effective methods.
1.) Bounties
2.) Create a food product.
😁
Rabbits are also an invasive species in the UK and its appears that the invasive rabbits in the UK were taken to Australia as an invasive species. Theres only so much rabbit stew you can eat in a lifetime, its lovely but not every single day 😂
Rabbits are native to Spain -actually the word "Hispalis" from which the word "Spain" or Hispania comes means "land of rabbits." Romans took them to Britain.
Ok but what a lovely thing to complain about, too much food.
You can't eat exclusively rabbit meat though. I can't remember what it is, but eating too much rabbit causes a deficiency of some necessary protein or enzyme and can cause liver failure and death. Also, most of our wild rabbits carry myxomatosis and are therefore inedible. If you were to trap or hunt rabbits, which I did as a kid, like 1 out of 30 dead bunnies can be eaten safely.
@@DJSockmonkeyMusic That is horrible!! Rabbit meat is a very good. But you should eat some fruits and veggies too
As a US citizen, I understand. Australia is a continent on its own and has unique wildlife. Florida is being overrun by pythons and iguanas, invasive. Australia needs to defend its own.
Don’t forget about feral hogs. Here in Texas they cause billions of dollars in damage. They’re like cockroaches.
@@a-a-ron4679 yep, understand.
@@a-a-ron4679No you can't eat cockroaches 🪳
Id suggest Florida has been over-run by far more dangerous imported pests than pythons and iguanas ,!!!,
@@princybella5386how about feral hogs.
I really enjoyed this vid. Thx. Good humor included
19:52 had me rolling. Haven’t seen mr fox clips anywhere but here😂
Seems like Australia is horrible at fighting any war, they've lost against Emu's and now Rabbits, maybe it's time to get some Allies lol
You wanna try wiping out millions of invasive creatures on a continent the same size of north America, without wiping out native species. Also saying "any war" is a bit of a stretch and kinda disrespectful
if I remember correctly rats also won back in 2019-2020
😂 savage 😂. Send some red tailed hawks over there. They will help out with the rabbits, snakes, and the rats.
Hm. And how is America doing with the hundreds of invasive species in their borders....
Oh, most of your population Doesn't Even Know; literally just the collective efforts of volunteers.
America said send nukes.
Yes! the rabbits in Australia are a problem but Australia is still a pretty amazing place and the rabbits have had their positive impact - during the great World Wide depression of the 1930's the rabbits were a source of food for the millions of and they were a source of food for the unemployed - something the native fauna could never have provided and one of the great Rugby League teams in the Sydney metropolitan area is called "The Rabbitohs" - named after the individuals who hunted the rabbit in order to keep the body and soul together. Same could not be said for the cat and the fox who are probably even greatly threats on the AUSTRALIAN ECOLOGY.
... and it helps that the rabbits actually taste good 😅
Rabbits are not a good source of food though(their meat is too lean) - unless one supplements it with fats and carbs; Otherwise you become sick quit soon.
I'm pretty sure if folks are hungry enough they'd eat cats.
I can't recommend it though. They taste very hairy. Also they bite back.
Seriously though cats while adorable & cuddly are murderous little psychos who will hunt even when not hungry.
I've seen one from the outback & it was amazing how a normal housecat went back to their wild roots. They were also absolutely vicious. In a way I was happy that one got away. But they're so bad for the environment that I fully support them hunting them.
I just ask that you do your best to give them a quick clean death.
I love cats but there's places that they very much do not belong. If kept inside the damage can be mitigated. But there's also places, generally islands, where I fully support cats being fully banned outright. But I couldn't stand living there. So I don't. I also keep my cats inside unless leashed. Because I don't want them hurt or killing the few songbirds around.
@@Nirrrina We have a terrible problem with feral cats, here in Cyprus. Many cat owners just allow their cats to run free and don't generally spay/neuter them, despite having an island-wide, free service provided by many animal welfare charities. Why wouldn't people take advantage of this service? The majority of locals here are Greek Orthodox. They have a similar attitude towards 'fixing' their pets as Roman Catholics do towards birth control and abortion.
@@juliemcgugan1244 "dead zone"
A cookbook as Mr. Tan suggests, plus winter coats for everyone! And a rabbit in every pot. Plus 10 in the deep freeze.
and no roo on the road.......
Such a great video. Awesome work.
1. Train Emu to eat mice,
2. Provide Emu with plenty of mice to eat.
3. You have an Emu farm!
4, Sell Emu meat , eggs and feathers.
The poisonous toads have become such a problem to the few predators that tackle them that training native predators to not bite toads has become mainstream.
Lol! They're not trained, mate. They learned over time and passed the new information to successive generations. It's a very good example of evolution by natural selection, or survival of the fittest.
There's no Magpie School of Eating Cane Toads safely...well, yet anyway.
i had a class of students,, i was teaching them to teach vipers to not eat taods.. i need more students..[ & coffins]]. note.. do you speek snake.??..
Yes, I watched a documentary showing how they teach quolls to avoid cane toads.
Amazing how correct all the information in this video is!! Real credit to the video creator. Well researched!!!!!!
No lots of mistakes but still a good vidio
Rabbits are precious, but the best thing about rabbits is "THEY TASTE ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS".
Very tasty indeed. Very rare to find in Asia.
As a kid, I remember one of our dogs bailed up a rabbit. The sounds of that animal dying of myxomatosis still lingers in my mind decades later.
them myxomatotic eyes are the most tasty bit on that rabbit. btw dogs only boil rabbits, you mean. seplling... duh..
Dog or Rabbit?
It would be awesome to look at this problem in other countries..even if not to this degree. Lovvve your shows.
I think there isnt one...
@@fckthisalias I've lived in South Africa half my life and now I've been in Canada the other half of my 65 yrs!! And whenever a problem has arisen about too many rats or too many raccoons the government sorts it out quickly and us..the people..all do the follow up and the problem animal gets mostly sorted out. So I believe the government could not have acted quick enough right from the beginning and NOW r not spending the money it's gonna take to do the job once and for all...UNTILL it reaches there houses..then maybe!!
Sounds like Britain owes Australia some compensation for f-ing it up
More like the natives
Unfortunately, we now have a new pest, the Varroa Mite which harms our bee industry
The Government was going around destroying keepers hives in order to stop the spread, but it was all for nothing
They recently advised that it is so out of control that there is nothing more they can do and we now just have to live with the problem
Small comfort for those keepers who's livelihoods were destroyed
The Camel drinking from the water Bottle was so funny, love your channel😅🐪🐫
And yes Im an Aussie living in the most Isolated City in the World Perth 💕
I love Queensland but the Cane Toads freak me out so I could never live there🐸
we have little frogs in W.A they sound sweet and I live near a Reserve that has Kangaroos roam freely with their little baby joeys Adorable to see😇
"When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
Seriously though, Australia must have fantastic hunting opportunities. In my part of Canada it's virtually impossible to feed yourself via hunting, but with no hunting limits on so many invasive species, Australia has to be the opposite. You could feed yourself entirely through hunting.
Ikr
You could if it wasn’t so highly regulated, depending on which state you live its almost impossible.
Gun use, bow use and even slingshots are regulated or banned, fresh water fishing and shell fish is regulated, trapping is regulated and some types outright banned, sea fish size and catch amount is regulated, some states are much worse then others.
@@alyssaoconnor Oh... so unlike us, it has the animals, but just like us, everything's massively overregulated.
Probably it's the food industry pushing the government to implement these rules. Imagine if people could feed themselves... the horror.
@@alyssaoconnor we also don’t have public land it’s all national and state parks and no hunting is allowed in them unless your lucky enough to know a farmer that will give u access your shit outta luck
I'm from country Victoria, Australia. Hunting around this area is amazing. We have a variety of deer, some wild goats and a ton of rabbits. Huge sambar deer population in my area. And so many rabbits that I've had rabbit cooked every way possibly. One of the best recipients I came across was pork and fennel sausage taken out of the case and stuffed into the rabbit, the wrapped the rabbit in bacon. Classic French way with white wine, butter and cream is my second choice.
Here in New York we see cottontail rabbits from spring through summer but as time goes on the numbers dwindle. By the time rabbit season opens we don't see many at all. There are a lot of coyotes here.
8:40 map bothered me more than it should 😂
You still can't even have a pet rabbit in my state in Australia to this day. Camel meat and milk is sold overseas but it is still a small industry. Our biggest problem is the distance we are from the rest of the world. We transport a huge number of camels to the middle east every year for races, food, etc. I remember as a child in Queensland, the home of cane toads, kicking about 20 of them away from the porch light each night when I got home. They are rarer now but only because they are travelling across the Northern Territory in vast numbers. They've developed super hoppers that are scouts. No joke. These toads have much longer legs and can travel faster and "scout" out good breeding grounds and food sources. Scientists only discovered them a few years ago.
Cats are a problem but cats are very regulated now. They must be kept indoor at night, every one who owns a cat much register them, and everyone I know who has a cat has neutered them. Cats are usually sold neutered these days. Of course, there are useless humans who don't control their cats properly but they are becoming rarer as we've all realised the problems cats have caused. It's just difficult to eradicate them in the wild. I find it amazing when I regularly watch US videos of people who found a rescue kitten in the street. You just don't see that is Australia any more.
Thanks for the great video. The other invasive species you forgot to mention is the kangaroo. It's not introduced but their numbers have to be culled occasionally as they reproduce so fast. The biggest problem in Australia is our dry climate and sparse vegetation, making it difficult it difficult for so many species to thrive, or even survive.
Kangaroos were there first and therefore are not invasive but you are .
Kangaroos reach plague proportions because clearing trees has created a lot more pasture than previously. Kangaroos and rabbits love this!
I'm sure you covered them in other videos, but feral pigs are probably the most destructive invasive species at the moment, with about 25 M of them and in the NT water buffalo are pretty destructive too.
Some people love to eat those wild pigs.
Water buffalo have pretty much beef culled because of TB and the risk that this poses to the cattle industry which is big business in northern Australia.
@@sootuckchoong7077 I wish more people would.
@@stevemeredith9022 Thanks for that. I lived in Darwin about 25 years ago and they were a big problem then, but I'd say they are a lot easier to cull than pigs.
Toads
Yeah, Plagues are a real problem here, I have had to deal with a few bug plagues, the most notable two were what’s we refer to as the centipede plague and beetle plague. This was only something in my general area.
Rabbits saved a lot of people as a food source from a man made economic depression in the 1930s
If I moved to Australia, I wouldn't even work. I would eat rabbit steak with salad every day.
The problem is that here in Romania we are full of bears and we are not even allowed to hunt them
You'll have to get a bit more than infinite rabbits to take care of yourself in a free-maret economy, off-grid is a hard graft, harder than getting a paid job. If you hunt and sell them, you're self-employed. Btw, if bears get overpopulation in Romania, the hunting ban would likely be lifted eventually, but we on the North-Eatst side (and i guess most places) of Europe have run out of bears. A few here and there means nationally they're in the red book of endangered animals. Thing that you have so many means a healthy ecosystem.
"Nihaari" a famous delicious curry dish made of Camel meat.. very popular in India and Pakistan and of course many other regions.. might be a profitabl proposition for Australia..
It speeds up colon cancer
Sounds good I want some.
@@manikyum I still want some
@@raclark2730 By all means dear friend. I congratulate you in advance for your brand new stoma and the new life which will come with it.
@@manikyum Aw thanks.
Two rabbits breed like CRAZY.
They have litters of six rabbits, and at just six weeks those six can have six etc etc.
Two can become 2 million in about 4 years.
That’s how the saying “ f…cks like rabbit” came about
One thing I learned from this video is that playing as Farmer in the Australian server is like playing hardcore difficulty.
I still don't know why the Australians don't eat rabbits to control their population.
Nice 😂😂😂 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
My family on my father's side, survived the hard depression years because they were not too proud to trap rabbits running wild on their properties. The only thing they had to worry about then were worms! Myxomatosis wasn't introduced until the 1950's. It's a disgusting way to try and handle a Problem. I should have realized how COVID would have been handled based on this performance. My illusions about the country that I so loved have been dissolved. I'm a disillusioned Australian. How have we turned into such a idiotic mob of compliant lemmings? And they in intellectual circles, still haven't learnt. How dumb can you allow yourself to get?
Rabbit starvation occurs when you consume an excessive amount of lean meat, like rabbit.
In fact, rabbits are one of the leanest types of meat available and a diet consisting strictly of rabbit can be deadly.
Also known as protein poising, it occurs when your body is unable to metabolize large amounts of protein.
Yes, the covid measures and mass compliance in Australia are ridiculous.
Don't worry, we are almost at the end of this Age, get rapture ready!
I have watched CZcams videos on Middle Eastern cooking. Camel is an enormous process meant for celebratory dinners. Several peeps involved. They need more because it looked delish!
To some food is just food.
I have a friend who raises rats.
They are on a controlled diet and don't run wild.
He eats them.
It started with raisins rabbits. He ate a lot of rabbit growing up.
So one day he wanted to know what rat tasted like and went to some Asian country and visited a village that ate them.
Well long story short he is a really really good cook and you wouldn't know what you were eating unless you were told.
I am Indian, I met an Aussie tourist a few years back who complained why we Indians have stray dogs & some cows roaming around in India. I asked him if I should get started on Kangaroos, Foxes, Rabbits & other animals roaming free all over Australia - he stared at me for 2 seconds & mumbled beneath his breath "never mind".
But cows are roaming on the streets in the city and are a dangerous road hazard....Big difference!!!
More people die from Rabies from dog bites in India than in any other country in the world!!! A few years back a British tourist was bitten by a puppy on the beaches of Goa. She didn't think about Rabies until she showed up at the ER in the UK. By that time it was too late to save her. They put her in a coma and waited for her to die. Unfortunately most tourists are not aware of the acute Rabies problem in India, if they did they would not visit India. That, and the lack of hygiene make it dangerous for international tourists visiting India.
I fail to understand your point????
@@Dan-xx5jq i am from India too buddy , you are right on this point , our friend here doesnt understand the difference between feralbanimals roaming freely and INVASIVE species !!!
Yes , the cows are a hazard for traffic and yes the dogs are the carrier of rabies !
Lol being in wild and being in front of your car motorcycles , on roads streets is very different and Australia is very less populated and have way more free land for animals to live in wild 😂 another indian who will get triggered if someone points out the reality. The Australian said never mind because he was smart and knew that it ok to be silent than argue with someone like you (aka fool) and that arguing will only results in more of bullshit from your end😂
India so dirty to many cows on the street
LMBFAO! Truly, “lessons are repeated until learned”!
I’d eat a camel steak. Llama is good, too. (The answer to male llama aggression is “dinner is ready”) I’ve studied the problem of invasive, non- native animals, plants, and insects much of my life. And all I can do is shake my head. Humans are such idiots.
You’re a human
camel balls ... if ur in morocco .. uncoocked, natch
We are a clever species but extremely stupid at the same time. Our stupidity is being rewarded as I
Post . Learn from history ? 😂😂😂😂
Feed baking soda to rats/mice/rabbits.
Mix Tablespoon baking soda to 2 Tablespoons flour. Rodents can't burp
The Australuan Akubra hat was made from rabbit fur. About ten years ago the Calucu virus all but eradicated the rabbit and Stetson bought out Akubra. Inferiror woolen hats have largely replace the superior eabbit fur.
Some are surprised by how many times humans have screwed up in Australia. But honestly I'm not, the number of very stupid people in the world doing very stupid things will never shock me. More so since few ever consider the long term results of their choices.
Not humans, politicians, there's a difference
@@jettstream2886 Naaah....the bulk of the species is rotten...it is not only the politicians....
@@gerhardvanderpoll7378 they make the decisions the laws the rules, they're the culprits
People have screwed up just as much, if not more, in other places as well. The unique ecology of Australia makes the effects especially obvious, though.
It's still shocking or kjnd of sickening, but surprising, NO!
Seems like the biggest problem is humans in capability of being self sufficient.
The Perth Inquirer and Commercial News, Wednesday, May 11, 1859; Importation of British Game-The following is from the Geelong Advertiser of March 29: "Mr Ogilvie has just received (consigned to Mr Thomas Austin) a fine lot of English game, accompanied by a
careful experienced gamekeeper, both from Somersetshire, per the Pioneer. The original consignment was very considerable - about 100 partridges, a few hares, the pheasants which have safely arrived, and some more which have died on the voyage out, and some blackbirds and thrushes. Unfortunately, the partridges could not stomach the brine. They all sickened and died before they had been three months out at sea. The hares, too, died, but more from fretfulness at want of room than of any specific disease. Several of the pheasants and of the singing birds died also, but 28 pheasants (pretty evenly mated) and two blackbirds and a thrush have landed safe and hearty."
In addition to leopards and foxes Australia should keep 1000 numbers of tigers and 1000 numbers of lions to control the population of camels and rabbits.
the rest of the world: Australia's horrors? venomous snakes and spiders perhaps?
Aussies: The biggest wankers down under? Them rabbits, emus, camels, and bloody foxes.
they have camels?? I never knew that lol
@Big Zoe if we do iv never seen one lmao
@@BigZoe99 I wish they would have touched on that more, I'm from the us but I think the camel problem isn't really that bad because they are a massive target. You can't tell me that they can't shoot a lot of camels at once with a machine gun?
Nah the biggest wankers are magpies and mozzies.
@@mitchweber7868 In 2009 an $AUUD19m campaign was funded and by 2013 had reduced the feral camel population from approx 6000 000 to approx 300 000. They can double in population every 8-10 yrs. They are in the central desert area of the country. The outback. Fairly inaccesible to joe average.. Cattle farmers and aboriginal land owners' land and water supplies are consumed and destryed by tcamels and they directly compete with wildlife for food resources . Hundreds of camels can be culled in a day but the carcasses are left to rot as there is no infrastructure to process them. Its too far from anywhere and theres little to no market for the meat. You wouldnt be able to just go out and hunt them with machine gun. A machine gun would not be allowed under our gun laws and you would need a special licences to own the appropriate firearm and one to hunt feral animals during the hunting season.
About 6 years ago, I watched a film called "Rabbit proof fence" and now the title makes sense.
17:19 It's not financially feasible to kill for meat. Transporting from Interior to cities involves huge fuel costs. Also during summer need fridges in trucks etc.
Meat is not in shortage in Australia. Other meat supplies are already well established .
I don't understand why food is a problem, I mean plenty of protein around. I can hardly go hungry in wild Australia. There is just too much choice every meal.
If I may ask do cops fuck around with hunters? Or hunted prey?
In spite of all this, as an Australian, I can assure you that the introduced humans (ie the first fleet and every other fleet thereafter) have had the most devastating impact on the wildlife and environment than all of these creatures combined..
And it seems they are only just warming up, as the technological age brings the humans into areas uninhabitable until now..
That's what I was thinking. Didn't England populate Australia trying to get rid of their "vermin?" People aren't vermin and either are other animals or critters!
@johnnichol9412
They got there on boats, so yeah, and planes, trains, trucks, cars and by foot everywhere.
Dont be racist against multiculteralism which is what Australia stands for. We are one but we are many and FROM ALL THE LANDS ON EARTH WE COME. practically a national anthem.
@@Caroline.123 Um no its not what most Australians stand for. Its forced upon us and a product of Americanisation, but the robots of society repeat this mantra over and over, as if it is true, or valid. The only thing that was "stolen", was the land. Everything else on top of it is 99.9% European culture and European efforts. Unity is strength, not division. "From all the lands on Earth we come" is not practically a national anthem, it is literally a verse from the national anthem. The national anthem was created in 1984, when Australia was basically still 95% European, so this is what is meant by that verse. Australia was settled by and built by and based upon in every single way, European culture. White Australians are European. Europeans are white. We come from Europe, all different parts of Europe. White culture is what they meant by multiculturalism back then, European culture is white culture, whether from England or Poland or Italy. Europeans are Europeans. All Europeans are white. The meaning of multiculturalism has changed, and ignorant Americanisation has poisoned Australia and Europe, imposing its stupidity and toxicity to our nations, where it doesnt apply. It is not racist to not want mass immigration from the third world for no other reason than virtue points. The only reason they allow mass immigration is get foreign workers to do the jobs Australians dont want to do, and at a lower cost. There is no other country on Earth, outside the white countries, that believe "diversity is strength". That phrase is propaganda and flawed in many ways, and is blatantly a lie, if you read history over the past 10s of thousands of years in every society on Earth, you would know why. Not only that, if you knew anything about the world outside the sheltered ignorant priviledged first world bubble of the white countries, you would realise that no other nation agrees or believes in or allows for "diversity" as it is against the best interests of the population of that nation, and is the opposite of unity, and has failed and lead to collapse of every society in human history that has allowed it. Only the white countries, mostly USA UK Western Europe and Australia, are ignorant to what is actually going on, the luxury of ignorance is only afforded to nations that have not ever experienced the outcomes of "diversity" and the whole radical marxist agenda thats being forced upon us today. Look at the history of poland for the last 1000 years, to get a better idea, before you robotic spew the moronic catch phrases that you have above. Think before you speak. Use your brain. Get some respect for yourself and your heritage. Learn about the world and history and humanity, past and present. Stop being a foot soldier for the corrupt elite, get some backbone. No other nations on Earth carry on like the idiotic white countries in this regard, as they live in reality, and have to work with the consequences of reality and hardship, where ignorance is not afforded. Research why the Roman Empire fell. Think for yourself, have discretion when interpreting information instead of scanning for key words and repeating robotic meaningless slogans. Ask what people think about this, ask people from every single country and culture outside the West, and see what they have to say about the bullshit the radical left is doing in our nations. But honestly, if people of our nations are this stupid, we deserve to be erased and replaced. No peoples this pathetic and moronic should be allowed to take from granted the incredible abundance and luxury of what European culture has given the entire planet, due to the inability of typing in a few sentences into google to understand what they are talking about before they open they mouths. There are so many other less fortunate people in the world that deserve what you take for granted. Do a swap for someone in Afghanistan for the position you are in right now, give someone more deserving and educated your position, people like you dnt deserve to live here, and will cause nothing but entire collapse of our civilisation. You have no understanding of how humanity works, how society works, human psychology, anthropology, human history and culture, politican science. What you are saying is what is actually racist, as its an absolute insult to the entire planet who would do anything to be in your position and would be 100x more greatful, and would 100x more be against "multiculturalism" from the 3rd world. The only reason "diversity" exists in the world to begin with, is due to the human nature of unity to ones group. You are voting away everything that you care about and your quality of life. Ask anyone from the real world, and they will tell you. Have a look at Sweden and Germany since 2015 onwards. Theres a thousand other examples. The main reason i support multiculturalism from the 3rd world is now because i realise how much they deserve to live here more than people like you. I dont want a nation with these ignorant beliefs to survive. At least people from the 3rd world will be against "multiculturalism" when they get here. You clearly know nothing about the world or humanity. Nothing. An insult to the suffering and hardships of all peoples on Earth that live in the 3rd world. You dont know what the word "racist" means. White people/europeans, have given 10x more to the entire world than they have taken from it. European culture has improved the lives of billions of people around the world, provided the world with thousands of years worth of advancement for free. European culture has provided the blueprint from the entire modern world. European/white people and nations are the most hospitable, tolerant, generous and moral of all on Earth. Europeans/white people are the only peoples who enforce human rights around the world, and give 10s of billions $$ to other nations and peoples every year, but are so ignorant to this reality, which allows for idiots like you. Europeans/white people have done the least amount of harm, and 10x the amount of good, of any other peoples past present and future. Every "waysist" thing you claim about white countries, is 10x as bad in every other single nation culture country and religion on Earth since the dawn of time. Only someone ignorant of their own people and everything in existence, share "opinions" aka programming such as yours. You are the real racist, as you have no understanding of reality, and only care to look virtuous based on zero logic and childish emotions and ideals, because it makes you feel significant and important, to have a saviour complex and look down upon other peoples of the world. Its pathetic, and not genuine, and is the real definition of everything thats wrong with humanity. Get educated. Be a real person. Get some values of your own. Use your own brain. Go travel to every other country on Earth, then get back to me on your "opinions".
@@Caroline.123 So is that why they have white Australia policy?
It might seem horrible but I watched that couple second clip of the rabbits running full speed into the fence for like a solid 5 minutes
We as a species managed to drive thousands of species to extinction with more primitive tech - to tackle invasive species, we have to instill a "kill on site" mentality toward them, and not have such things viewed as taboo. Unfortunately, urbanization has disconnected most people from the realities of this. It takes a massive concerted effort of the people to tackle an issue like this!
Fortunately rabbits taste good, us Aussies call them bush chooks.
Australia is a real life version of the song,"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly... " 😂😅😂🙃😏
I guess rats are an unfortunate reality of the wheat industry, not just for Australia. Nice to know the flour, and other wheat products, we’re using is full of rat fur, dander, urine, and droppings. And since the rats are constantly screwing, rat seme… Gives it a seasoned, nutty flavor. 😂
worst thing about cats is tons of farmers let them live at there properties because feral cats become huge and keep foxes at a minimum
There is a Big market for Aussies Camels in Middle East.
Camel Race in Gulf countries.
Camel meat too.
Old generation use Camel meat as medicine too (High Blood pressure)
I will make every recipe imaginable just start eating the buggers they are delicious 😋
Countries which import exotic animals, insects & plants have no one to blame but themselves.
*I was Born in FLorida!!!!*
*Look at FLorida now!!! They RecentLy Caught a-->*
*19 foot Long Python!!! How HoRRiBLe!!!*
That is true what is the point you are trying to make
That is true what is the point you are trying to make
That sounds free meats year round. What a treasure..
Flint Mi. Some people survived on rabbit meat when the auto plants went away. Later poison water. 😢
Your video report was excellent and very interesting. Two mice in the apartment were enough for me! The number of birds in southern Germany has also decreased a lot in the last two years.
I'll go to the supermarket and see what's on offer for meat from Australia. Then take good care of your cute koalas!
Australian crocodile steak is pretty good. Also Barramundi and emu are yummy My dog eats kangaroo, but I think they are to cute to eat. Koalas aren’t as cute as you think, they are noisy at night during mating season, they sound like a monster.
@@NGC-catseye I had croc in Australia and it was not good. Barramundi was OK, but emu was fantastic. My 2 cents.
koalas are best raw so only buy frozen
No we don't. We are destroying their habitat and if something is not done soon they might be extinct by 2050.😢
They sound like cute monsters. They are very cute. It seems to be fashionable to pretend our cute wildlife are not really cute, but they are.@@NGC-catseye
People these days under utilize moats. Our moattechnology could be so far by now if we used them more. Farms already dig for canals, keep digging and make a moat, fill it with lethal stuffs, no rats no fox, no emu, no nothing, lolz. Just a lot of hard work digging
One of Australia’s problems is a lack of water. It’s mostly desert and the cities are strictly along the coast.
@@jilllangman9343 the moat doesn't have to be filled with water, its just a big trench hole. Most animals won't be able to figure a way across and back up
Growing up our favourite pasttime was hunting hares and small gazelles. We used to chase them at a sprint for 4-5 kilometres nonstop. Nowadays I can barely jog 2 kilometres. I think we hunted them to extinction too
I was waiting for this to mention the Feral Pigs, Water Buffalo or feral Deer populations as well...
This is why I support the Channels of Australian Hunters who go out and actively Hunt these invasive Pests, especially the Guys who use the Night Vision Scopes.
I always chuckle when the Cat Lovers get up in arms over the Hunters killing Feral Cats. I have encountered these personally in the wild, and some are HUGE! In the 60's my Best friend in School lost his young Sister to a Feral Cat attack, sounds unbelievable, but it was true.
And horses, Kosiosco national park is being smashed under hoof by thousands of Brumbies. You want so see crazy? you wait till you see what crawls out from under the stones when you suggest shooting feral horses (Brumbies).
There are so many different invasive species of animals in Australia. Rabbits are common in mainland Australia and everywhere in Tasmania. Its hard to walk around in Queensland and not walk on a canetoad. Foxes are plenty, buffalo in the Northern Territory . Camels in most of Australia. Foxes everywhere. Its hard to walk in the evening in Queensland without walking on a cane toad. Carp in nearly every fresh waterway. Feral cats feasting on the local native wildlife. The list goes on and on. And that includes humans.
Australia is known for things that kill you. How do you have invasive anything…
Tell us you’re a vegan without saying you’re a vegan 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@666Buzzsaw I love a good medium rare T-bone or lamb chop.😋
Rabbit meat is expensive and is being sold in supermarkets here in CA 🇨🇦
An old farmer told me what it was like this way. They would poison a barrel of thistles overnight and then spread them across the field. Next morning there was a row of dead rabbits 6ft wide . They plow in the rabbits and repeat the process ....every day
Wild goats is a massive problem, English red fin fish , European carp, Indian minor birds. Hundreds of pests. That’s why border security is such a huge thing at our borders.
That is food and not a problem. You guys😢
@@rebeccanagawa3253 it’s a huge problem, they kill that native wildlife!.
@@logical_evidenceJust eat them,problem solved
@@Blackpill149 they don’t taste good, I’ve even seen Asian people say oh great we will take the catch and next day I offered more they said nope it taste of muddy flavours what ever that means I don’t eat anything out of ocean or river.
Maybe once but as a veteran of the transport industry I can tell you that our bio security measures have been watered down bit by bit for decades mainly to accommodate Chinese imports. Which is the place alongside the Middle East that bio security measures should have been increased due to common bacteria and parasites that are benign there but being new here are a much bigger problem.