Why Don’t They Eat Billions of Animals in Australia?

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[@guineanord]

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

[@robertrozek1206]

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.

[@anthonyburke5656]

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.

[@YeahNo]

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.

[@John-pb2mx]

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.

[@user-de4tq3jh8b]

What Australia really needs is a cookbook😂

[@shawnkelly695]

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.

[@mjdally82]

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[@davidmccoy6888]

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.

[@AutoCrete]

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.

[@stevoclark1533]

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.

[@KingOFuh]

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.

[@HaurakiVet]

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.

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"How a Rich Man With 24 Rabbits Turned Australia Into HELL"

[@calebdoner]

You would think the foxes would keep the rabbits in check and the cats would keep the mice in check. I guess not.

[@authorcharlieboring]

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.

[@weskus]

I really enjoyed this vid. Thx. Good humor included

[@TahoeJones]

That's a whole lot of dogfood waiting to be harvested for export.

[@leonneldayoc5715]

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.

[@PleaseNThankYou]

A cookbook as Mr. Tan suggests, plus winter coats for everyone! And a rabbit in every pot. Plus 10 in the deep freeze.