Don’t let this happen to your chooks. Apply for a quoll-proof poultry pen grant today.
Photo © Kevin McDonaldWhen quolls raid poultry sheds, it's not just the chickens that come off badly.
Poultry owners who have lost stock to spotted-tailed quolls often retaliate by trapping or shooting the quoll – and another member of this endangered but fascinating species is lost.
A grant scheme managed by the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland is offering financial assistance to poultry owners
to help them build sheds that protect their stock and thus keep quolls safe too.
The Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (Wildlife Queensland) is offering grants of up to $750 to poultry owners in known quoll habitat areas across Queensland. Successful applicants must use that money to construct a new shed or remodel an existing poultry house to create a quoll-proof poultry pen that meets set standards.
'We want poultry owners to take advantage of our grant scheme,' said Ewa Meyer, Wildlife Queensland spokesperson.
'By protecting your poultry from quolls, you are also protecting them from foxes, snakes and other predators,' she added.
'Quolls are Australia's largest marsupial predator and they've raided chook pens since the earliest days of European settlement.'
'But we've found that once their poultry pens are quoll-proof, people love living alongside quolls.'
Queensland is home to the spotted-tailed quoll and the northern quoll.
Wildlife Queensland's grant scheme is part of the Society’s Protecting Quolls in Queensland Landscapes program, funded by the Australian Government's Caring for Our Country.
For more information about the poultry shed grant scheme (applications now closed) and other activities, contact Wildlife Queensland by email or call +61 7 3221 0194. |
