December 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Lyn Berry has a chat one last time before she hangs up her correspondent hat!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Thanks for joining us. This says the muster on Hak
and Louis lynn Bury catches up in studio lynn House sings.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, it's just peachy.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Just bring the microphone up a little bit closer to yourself.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's just peachee. If the wind would stop blying because
it's blind and I Macau for the last four months,
and I think I can count on one hand the
number of stool days we've had for more than like
eight hours. It would be even better.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We haven't been used to the wind in the south
issue over the past couple of years.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh look, this is the worst it's been since I've
been up in Omacau in the last eight years. It's
just just shocking. I've only had one day when I've
been able to get out and do some spraying, which
is really bad.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The Twelve Pests of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, so FEDS have put a nice big billboard up
in Wellington I here with the twelve Pests of Christmas,
them being alding pines, and they should include carbon credit pines.
Because as I was coming into West Totago this morning,
I see another lovely farm has been all sprayed out
and I'm assuming that'll go into pines, which is really heartbreaking. Possums,
(01:16):
feral deer and goats, wildcats, wallabies, rabbits, pigs, cooy carp rats,
and I won't say what I put the word in
front of those.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Ducks, but ducks it sounds like duck.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It does does very close. And Canadian geese. So I
thought i'd pack on Canadian geese because they're moving down
this way, and especially around Tiana they and in some
of our high country areas and around big lakes they're
causing huge problems. The old the old Canadian geese, they
(01:49):
were introduced in eighteen seventy six, but they died out
really quickly. I think there was only about ten of
them introduced then. But then in nineteen oh five and
again in a nineteen twenty they introduced fifty game birds
and they were protected under the Wildlife Act of nineteen
fifty three and were managed technically nowadays or earlier on
(02:11):
by fishing game New Zealand. Most of them were found
in the South Island. It wasn't until the sixties when
they started importing them into the North Island in groups
of five hundred to eight hundred. A couple of them
up into the warra Wrapper and then up in Wellington
in the Auckland areas, and over that time they have
(02:33):
thrived with no peace or animals to keep on top
of them, and currently they reckon. It's about about sixty
thousand of the little critters flying around. So the biggest
problem with them is that you know, they pooh everywhere.
They pooh roughly every twelve minutes, and over a whole
(02:55):
day can produce a whole kilo of poos because they're
a bit different from chooks and other birds because they
don't have a gizzard, where a chuck and some of
the other birds will have a gizzard and that food
will sit in there and they'll break it down a goose.
It just goes like it's just one lung pipe. It's
in one end and out the other, and ninety seventy
(03:15):
five percent of that it's water, and the rest of
it it's like whatever else they've been eating.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So their digestive system is effectively a slurry.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Point, definitely, and it's full of bugs. It's full of
things like Kempellabacter, Jardier crypto and good oldie coli that
lots of our woke greenies keep telling us is caused
by dairy cows, but in fact, when they did the
(03:44):
survey tested the waters down here in Southland, eighty percent
of E coli and the rivers down here was caused
by wild fowl witch fish in game manage. But we
won't talk about that today because I'll be here all day.
So they produce about a kilo of poorry. They eat
about two kilos of grass, and they reckon four Canadian
(04:05):
gooses equal to one stock unit, so that's a sixty
five kg You how much it eats for a whole year?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Pass a Canadian geese? I will say, not four Canadian gooses.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh, don't be so paquet. When did you get so woke?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's not work. It's the egnistiction.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Look, I'm dyslexic. Everyone knows that I can't spell or
talk proper English.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So continue, So they.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Nest and it takes about twenty eight to twenty nine
days for the eggs to hatch out and eight to
nine weeks for the chicks to fledge in January. February
is the time that we get them to help get
rid of them, because that's basically open season on Canadian
geese now, and they molt over that time, so they
can't fly. So this is when they go and they
(04:52):
round them up and reduce their numbers. Also, they can
do it while they are nesting. They come in and
they can jet the eggs or they oiled the eggs.
They did that back in the sixties for a couple
of years and had amazing results. But they found that
the Canadian geese went and nested somewhere else when that
nesting ground proved unfruitful sort of thing. So they try
(05:15):
and leave one or two eggs in the nest so
that they've got a couple of little chicks and they'll
still come back this next season and they can keep
on top of the numbers that way.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So this is Lynn Berry unfiltered today, and there is
a reason for this. Tell us why.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, it's been nearly twenty eight years since i started
doing this little spot on Hokinue. I've been in Southland
now coming up thirty years, so I'm just about a
local and I've decided it's probably about time to wheel
my zimmer frame and park it somewhere else for a change.
And I've decided that today's going to be my last
(05:51):
day doing correspondence on Hokkinoe, and it's been an amazing
run and some amazing laughs with Jamie and Nick back
in the day, and being felt really privileged to be
able to share my travels overseas and the information that
about those countries as well.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And you also had a proposal on he once.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh yes, back in the day when I was stupid.
On the twenty ninth of February one year, I read
out this really poem about all these different things and
then proposed to my now ex on the radio, and
we got a dag special on it, so everyone got
(06:35):
a few more cents for their DAGs because he ended
up saying yes, which he probably regrets regrets now anyway.
But yeah, and yeah, there's been some really good times.
And I'd like to thank everybody out there who's had
to put up with me all these years and listen
to my dribble. But thank you very much. And I
(06:55):
wish everybody really really merry Christmas. And I'll still be
around annoying people, but that's not on the air.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, thank you very much. Let and let you say,
there's been a long time from the concepts, from the
concept of howkanui back in the nineties You've been quite
happy to come on for a chat. Been awesome chatting
overseas as well, having a yarn from somewhere far flong.
Where are you going next for your holidays.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm on the pension now, you know, on the soup,
but we can't afford to do things like travel overseas.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I's got to say you go to the Gold Coast
and play the poke's in winter.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I had been invited to a wedding in India
and January, but I had an expense of repair on
my car, so that's gone out the window.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay, well you can hang around with this laugh out loud.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Here we go, laugh out loud with ag proud because
life on the land can be a laughing matter. Brought
to us by sheer Well Data working to help the
livestock farmer.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To today because we can waiter. Will my pizza be long?
No surah, It'll still be round and the final one
as well. I fired my fruit delivery driver today. I
hate to let the man go, but he was driving
me bananas Glennberry in studio for the final time. My
(08:14):
name's Andy Muller. I'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.
You're listening to the muster on Hokkannilie. Of course, thanks
to Peter's genetics Joy The afternoon podcast going up shortly
Thanks for joining us. This says the muster on Hak
and Louis lynn Bury catches up in studio lynn House sings.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, it's just peachy.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Just bring the microphone up a little bit closer to yourself.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's just peachee. If the wind would stop blying because
it's blind and I Macau for the last four months,
and I think I can count on one hand the
number of stool days we've had for more than like
eight hours. It would be even better.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We haven't been used to the wind in the south
issue over the past couple of years.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh look, this is the worst it's been since I've
been up in Omacau in the last eight years. It's
just just shocking. I've only had one day when I've
been able to get out and do some spraying, which
is really bad.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The Twelve Pests of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, so FEDS have put a nice big billboard up
in Wellington I here with the twelve Pests of Christmas,
them being alding pines, and they should include carbon credit pines.
Because as I was coming into West Totago this morning,
I see another lovely farm has been all sprayed out
and I'm assuming that'll go into pines, which is really heartbreaking. Possums,
(01:16):
feral deer and goats, wildcats, wallabies, rabbits, pigs, cooy carp rats,
and I won't say what I put the word in
front of those.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Ducks, but ducks it sounds like duck.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It does does very close. And Canadian geese. So I
thought i'd pack on Canadian geese because they're moving down
this way, and especially around Tiana they and in some
of our high country areas and around big lakes they're
causing huge problems. The old the old Canadian geese, they
(01:49):
were introduced in eighteen seventy six, but they died out
really quickly. I think there was only about ten of
them introduced then. But then in nineteen oh five and
again in a nineteen twenty they introduced fifty game birds
and they were protected under the Wildlife Act of nineteen
fifty three and were managed technically nowadays or earlier on
(02:11):
by fishing game New Zealand. Most of them were found
in the South Island. It wasn't until the sixties when
they started importing them into the North Island in groups
of five hundred to eight hundred. A couple of them
up into the warra Wrapper and then up in Wellington
in the Auckland areas, and over that time they have
(02:33):
thrived with no peace or animals to keep on top
of them, and currently they reckon. It's about about sixty
thousand of the little critters flying around. So the biggest
problem with them is that you know, they pooh everywhere.
They pooh roughly every twelve minutes, and over a whole
(02:55):
day can produce a whole kilo of poos because they're
a bit different from chooks and other birds because they
don't have a gizzard, where a chuck and some of
the other birds will have a gizzard and that food
will sit in there and they'll break it down a goose.
It just goes like it's just one lung pipe. It's
in one end and out the other, and ninety seventy
(03:15):
five percent of that it's water, and the rest of
it it's like whatever else they've been eating.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So their digestive system is effectively a slurry.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Point, definitely, and it's full of bugs. It's full of
things like Kempellabacter, Jardier crypto and good oldie coli that
lots of our woke greenies keep telling us is caused
by dairy cows, but in fact, when they did the
(03:44):
survey tested the waters down here in Southland, eighty percent
of E coli and the rivers down here was caused
by wild fowl witch fish in game manage. But we
won't talk about that today because I'll be here all day.
So they produce about a kilo of poorry. They eat
about two kilos of grass, and they reckon four Canadian
(04:05):
gooses equal to one stock unit, so that's a sixty
five kg You how much it eats for a whole year?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Pass a Canadian geese? I will say, not four Canadian gooses.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh, don't be so paquet. When did you get so woke?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's not work. It's the egnistiction.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Look, I'm dyslexic. Everyone knows that I can't spell or
talk proper English.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So continue, So they.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Nest and it takes about twenty eight to twenty nine
days for the eggs to hatch out and eight to
nine weeks for the chicks to fledge in January. February
is the time that we get them to help get
rid of them, because that's basically open season on Canadian
geese now, and they molt over that time, so they
can't fly. So this is when they go and they
(04:52):
round them up and reduce their numbers. Also, they can
do it while they are nesting. They come in and
they can jet the eggs or they oiled the eggs.
They did that back in the sixties for a couple
of years and had amazing results. But they found that
the Canadian geese went and nested somewhere else when that
nesting ground proved unfruitful sort of thing. So they try
(05:15):
and leave one or two eggs in the nest so
that they've got a couple of little chicks and they'll
still come back this next season and they can keep
on top of the numbers that way.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So this is Lynn Berry unfiltered today, and there is
a reason for this. Tell us why.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, it's been nearly twenty eight years since i started
doing this little spot on Hokinue. I've been in Southland
now coming up thirty years, so I'm just about a
local and I've decided it's probably about time to wheel
my zimmer frame and park it somewhere else for a change.
And I've decided that today's going to be my last
(05:51):
day doing correspondence on Hokkinoe, and it's been an amazing
run and some amazing laughs with Jamie and Nick back
in the day, and being felt really privileged to be
able to share my travels overseas and the information that
about those countries as well.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And you also had a proposal on he once.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh yes, back in the day when I was stupid.
On the twenty ninth of February one year, I read
out this really poem about all these different things and
then proposed to my now ex on the radio, and
we got a dag special on it, so everyone got
(06:35):
a few more cents for their DAGs because he ended
up saying yes, which he probably regrets regrets now anyway.
But yeah, and yeah, there's been some really good times.
And I'd like to thank everybody out there who's had
to put up with me all these years and listen
to my dribble. But thank you very much. And I
(06:55):
wish everybody really really merry Christmas. And I'll still be
around annoying people, but that's not on the air.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, thank you very much. Let and let you say,
there's been a long time from the concepts, from the
concept of howkanui back in the nineties You've been quite
happy to come on for a chat. Been awesome chatting
overseas as well, having a yarn from somewhere far flong.
Where are you going next for your holidays.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm on the pension now, you know, on the soup,
but we can't afford to do things like travel overseas.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I's got to say you go to the Gold Coast
and play the poke's in winter.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I had been invited to a wedding in India
and January, but I had an expense of repair on
my car, so that's gone out the window.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay, well you can hang around with this laugh out loud.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Here we go, laugh out loud with ag proud because
life on the land can be a laughing matter. Brought
to us by sheer Well Data working to help the
livestock farmer.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To today because we can waiter. Will my pizza be long?
No surah, It'll still be round and the final one
as well. I fired my fruit delivery driver today. I
hate to let the man go, but he was driving
me bananas Glennberry in studio for the final time. My
(08:14):
name's Andy Muller. I'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.
You're listening to the muster on Hokkannilie. Of course, thanks
to Peter's genetics Joy The afternoon podcast going up shortly
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