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Rabbit Kitten Survival In The South-West, D R. King
Rabbit Kitten Survival In The South-West, D R. King
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In the South-West of Western Australis reliable winter rains allow the rabbit breeding season to extend through winter and spring, and thus a large number of kittens are produced each year.
Studies on the biology of rabbits at Cape Naturaliste (270 kilometres south-west of Perth) and Chidlow (40 kilometres east of Perth in the Datling Range) have shown that at these sites each doe produces about 30 and 27 kittens respectively a year. If all these youg rabbits survived, there would be a 15-fold increase in numbers. Within a short time the State would be covered "wall to wall" by …
1080 : A Selective Poison For Pests, D R. King
1080 : A Selective Poison For Pests, D R. King
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Since the 1960s, the control programmes for rabbits and dingoes in Western Australia have relied heavily on the use of sodium monofluoroacetate, more commonly known as compound 1080. Large quantaties are used each year as it is a valuable substance for the control of vertebrate pests.
Once in the animal's body 1080 is converted to fluorocitrate, a poison which is highly toxic to most mammals. Fluorocitrate blocks the Krebs cycle, a fundamental pathway of energy exchange in animals and plants. The animal dies as a result of damage to the heart, or to the brain and central nervous system, or …
Bounty Systems In Vermin Control, S J O Whitehouse
Bounty Systems In Vermin Control, S J O Whitehouse
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
For more than 3000 years man has tried to reduce the numbers of pest animals by payment of bounties. In general, the system has failed.
This article, by a research scientist who specalizes in the study of declared (pest) animals in Western Australia reviews some of the literature about bounties and comments on the situation in Australia.
Rabbit Fumigation, C D. Gooding
Rabbit Fumigation, C D. Gooding
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Not all poisons act by absorption from the alimentary tract or through the skin, the fumigants are a big group of poisons used in pest control which act on the animal after being absorbed through the lungs.
FUMIGATION as it is now used in Western Australia is not always an economical way of treating whole farm properties. It should only be used on its own in areas where it is impossible to use other more permanent methods such as warren destruction.
Wallaby Control In The Kimberleys, C D. Gooding
Wallaby Control In The Kimberleys, C D. Gooding
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
EXPERIMENTS aimed at controlling sandy wallabies along the Fitzroy River frontage were started in 1952 by officers of the Agriculture Protection Board.
This work was undertaken in response to requests for assistance from some of the station owners and managers between Derby and Fitzroy Crossing.
Vermin Symposium Report : Wanted : A New Approach To Rabbit Control, A R. Tomlinson
Vermin Symposium Report : Wanted : A New Approach To Rabbit Control, A R. Tomlinson
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
THE main reason why rabbits have not increased as rapidly as their amazing capabilities might have led people to expect has been a series of years not suitable for full breeding.
This has been more important than myxomatosis and "1080". This was one of the thoughts taken away by those who attended the rabbit control symposium held in Perth recently.