Kōrero: Rabbits

Poisoned carrots

Poisoned carrots

These workmen, including some school boys, are bagging carrots grown on a remote station in inland Kaikōura in 1957. When it is time for the carrots to be spread by plane, they are put through a cutter and chopped into small pieces. Normally the rabbits are given two feeds of plain cut-up carrots, with up to a week between each feed, to encourage them onto the bait. For the third feed, the carrots are covered with 1080 poison when they are cut and then spread over the problem area.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-039

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Robert Peden, 'Rabbits - Controlling rabbits with poison', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15259/poisoned-carrots (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008