Your very own Wallabies

How good are they eating-wise fella ? We see a few around these parts occasionally. I'm not too far from Woburn Estate and I know that a load escaped from the park there in years past and have now become acclimatised and breed in the wild.

Incidentally, one of my permission owners used to have 2 wallabies in a paddock as curiousities. They were both pure white. He 'collected' white animals.

Anyone have any solid evidence that they are classed under AOLQ rules as a foreign invasive species ? (If living wild, obviously)
 
I don't think that's ever really been mentioned on here before, has it? I know there's supposed to be a resident population somewhere around Aviemore if memory serves. Best keep the tail tucked into the roesack though. Ramblers probably wouldn't be best pleased :lol:
 
Pretty good to eat, lots of cafes and restaurants in Tasmania have it on the menu. Cook the same as venison. Tenderloins of course the best. Illegal to shoot them in Victoria but in Tasmania it's go at them.
Grant.
 
There is also a population around "the Roches" in Staffordshire, I believe. I seem to remember being told they had been there since WWII. May therefore have been emparked at one point and turfed out of the park on the instructions of the War Agricultural Executive Committee. Certainly a number of fallow populations owed their wild existence to that reason.
 
There was a population of wallabies in Norfolk somewhere when I was a kid. Can't remember exactly where. I wonder if they still exist?
 
Another way of life destroyed by green germs. My Tassie mates used to attend the annual shoot with another 5000.

 
Wild population that has escaped from Whipsnade in years past. They come out the woods on pheasant drives on some estates around Dunstable, Ashridge and Tring area.
Pre shoot talk on one estate I shot on few years ago included the immortal line " the bloody things have been the cause of people taking the pledge" , not quite expecting ground game to take the form of wallabies!
 
 
@Spix
I had a feeling I was repeating myself when I posted in this thread!
There's not many topics that haven't been covered before on SD!
 
@Spix
There's not many topics that haven't been covered before on SD!
I'm sure we'll find something :lol:
 
Wild population that has escaped from Whipsnade in years past. They come out the woods on pheasant drives on some estates around Dunstable, Ashridge and Tring area.
Pre shoot talk on one estate I shot on few years ago included the immortal line " the bloody things have been the cause of people taking the pledge" , not quite expecting ground game to take the form of wallabies!
Stalking one day on wife's stepfather's farm below Whipsnade. Spotted a pair of ears in briars , thought it was CWD or Roe so got set up on sticks. The bloody thing jumped in the air over the briars and I nearly had a heart attack. When I told them at the farm they laughed themselves silly.
 
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