Your very own Wallabies

[SamHuntVic]

Wild wallabies are on the run across Britain. So why is nobody paying the any attention?

They have been round for a while I know, but don't pass up a feed of stew or tenderloins.
Grant.

 

[Longstrider]

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)

 

[Woodsmoke]

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

 

[ColinBr]

An island on Loch Lomond has a fair amount of them on it

 

[Kjf]

Isle of Man has some too

Kjf

 

[SamHuntVic]

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.

 

[Oldstalker]

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.

 

[VSS]

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?

 

[Sika98k]

There’s a good number of wallabies on Lambay island off the north coast of Dublin also. Dublin Zoo was overstocked.

 

[John Gryphon]

Another way of life destroyed by green germs. My Tassie mates used to attend the annual shoot with another 5000.

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[The Singing Stalker]

There’s a good number of wallabies on Lambay island off the north coast of Dublin also. Dublin Zoo was overstocked.

Isn’t Lambay a private island? So they would be the owners flock or herd or whatever a group is called.

 

[John Gryphon]

flock or herd or whatever a group is called.

Like a number of `roo`s a mob.

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[Rhodesianjess]

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]

Wallabies

Does anyone know of anywhere that I could take a wallaby in the Uk. I know that they are at Woburn but not sure if they still cull them. I have taken all 6 species of deer and goat and boar which leaves wallaby. Any info appreciated.

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

 

[Dunwaters]

Isn’t Lambay a private island? So they would be the owners flock or herd or whatever a group is called.

Yes it’s private, every so often a few are shot and sold into the game meat trade, or at least that used to be the case.

 

[VSS]

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[VSS]

@Spix

Wallabies

Does anyone know of anywhere that I could take a wallaby in the Uk. I know that they are at Woburn but not sure if they still cull them. I have taken all 6 species of deer and goat and boar which leaves wallaby. Any info appreciated.

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

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]

@Spix

Wallabies

Does anyone know of anywhere that I could take a wallaby in the Uk. I know that they are at Woburn but not sure if they still cull them. I have taken all 6 species of deer and goat and boar which leaves wallaby. Any info appreciated.

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

There's not many topics that haven't been covered before on SD!

I'm sure we'll find something

 

[Sika98k]

Isn’t Lambay a private island? So they would be the owners flock or herd or whatever a group is called.

Lambay is private, yes. I think nowadays a “bubble” is appropriate.

 

[User00025]

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.