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How Rabbit Poisoning Methods Work, S H. Wheeler
How Rabbit Poisoning Methods Work, S H. Wheeler
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
While the "rabbit plauges" of the past are a distant memory for most farmers, rabbit numbers must still be controlled in many parts of Western Australia. Rabit control techniques rely heavily on poisoning, which given the right conditions can kill a high percentage of rabbits at risk.
Recent research by the Agricultural Protection Board has been aimed at determining how different poisons, baits and poisoning methods work. By knowing in detail how each method works and what influences its results, we can choose the best control method for a particular place and time, avoid costly failures, and increase the effectiveness …
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 …
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.