Feral Adventures

[Outlaw Yogi]

It's difficult to keep a King Parrot in captivity - yet a tame one wouldn't survive for long being free in the bush. They are a beautiful bird. How do you keep it close without clipping its wings or tying it by the foot?

He's no captive .. just an apparently very tame wild animal.
I don't deliberately keep him close, he turns up most mornings and some afternoods, follows me around making chirpy noises which I assume to mean "can I have some more prickly cucumber? .. where's all the fruit gone matey?" or something along those lines.
I collected a pile of prickly cucumbers which grow feral on and around my land, while waiting for them to ripen [turn from green to orange] I aquired other food sources and sorta forgot about them untill the parrots started pinching them.

How did he taste?

Don't know.

Trust you to look at one of God's beautiful creatures as a meal IQ. I'm sure that a person who appears to admire nature as much as Heretic wouldn't even consider using it as food.

Spoze it depends on how hungry I am.
I enjoy the fact the critters don't feel threatened. I've got 2 female wallabies who bring their joeys in every night and stay within about 30 metres of where ever I'm camped at the time. One has half an ear missing, presumably dog or dingo attack, as I bounty hunt dingos/feral dogs the canines stay away and the wallabies feel safe. I've even learnt their grunts and can call them in as if I'm the alpha male and the other males keep their distance.

When asked why I don't shoot the wallabies on my land, I explain I don't need to. I've got 2 forests to hunt in very close by. Not hunting on my own land gives the wallabies a sense of security, so if I ever get too sick/weak to go out hunting it doesn't matter because I have home delivery.

In recent months I've eaten Currawong, Grass parrot, Pheasant, Hare and Rat kangaroo.
Tried to eat a crow but they're rank like a fox. Truely a putrid creature.

[Ned Kelly]

Harry Bloody Butler!!

[AiA in Atlanta]

In recent months I've eaten Currawong, Grass parrot, Pheasant, Hare and Rat kangaroo.
Tried to eat a crow but they're rank like a fox. Truely a putrid creature.

Recall research when a group of fat, sick, diabetic aborigines agreed to return to the bush and take up a hunter/gatherer lifestyle, moving from inland to the sea then back again eating only what they could kill, catch and gather. At the end of the 7 weeks their blood markers were much improved.

[mantra]

Aren't rat kangaroos an endangered species? Grass parrot wouldn't be too filling either, unless you eat the bones as well.

Recall research when a group of fat, sick, diabetic aborigines agreed to return to the bush and take up a hunter/gatherer lifestyle, moving from inland to the sea then back again eating only what they could kill, catch and gather. At the end of the 7 weeks their blood markers were much improved.

They've got their feet in both worlds. They go out with their cross bows and guns and kill off endangered dugongs and sea turtles - then after their healthy feast they head into town for their booze and sugar overload.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Aren't rat kangaroos an endangered species?

Don't know. There's plenty in the long grass at my place.. The one I ate was road-kill, I clubbed him with a falcon panel-van

Grass parrot wouldn't be too filling either, unless you eat the bones as well.

Quite true, hardly a mouthful and not very tasty either. Caught in a styro box after noisey minahs had pecked his head raw and tail-feathers out.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Recall research when a group of fat, sick, diabetic aborigines agreed to return to the bush and take up a hunter/gatherer lifestyle, moving from inland to the sea then back again eating only what they could kill, catch and gather. At the end of the 7 weeks their blood markers were much improved.

They've got their feet in both worlds. They go out with their cross bows and guns and kill off endangered dugongs and sea turtles - then after their healthy feast they head into town for their booze and sugar overload.

The three most addictive things in the world are heroin, carbohydrates and a steady paycheck.

[J.W. Frogen]

Every man needs his own kingdom.

[boxy]

Not feral, just acts like it sometimes

[IQSRLOW]

Must...not...make...reference...to JM...must ...not...must ...not...

[boxy]

FAIL